Ocean Science and the British Cold War State

Robinson, Samuel A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-73096-7_1

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“…Crease remembered Henry as equally at ease with ranks from Admiral to stoker. Robinson (2018) notes that Deacon used the submarine work in the Mediterranean as an example of the value of an 'arms length' NIO to the Admiralty and hence NIO's need for its own home.…”

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Pen portraits of Presidents – Prof. Henry Charnock, CBE, FRS

Gould

2023

Weather

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This paper reviews the life of Prof. Henry Charnock. He was a President of the Royal Meteorological Society (1982–1984) whose expertise spanned both the atmosphere and ocean. He started as a meteorological forecaster with the Royal Air Force during WWII and went on to study air–sea interaction and the structure of the upper ocean. He later exerted considerable influence on the shape of both United Kingdom and international marine science.

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Section: Academic and Research Careermentioning

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Pen portraits of Presidents – Prof. Henry Charnock, CBE, FRS

Gould

2023

Weather

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“…From a strategic standpoint, the ocean was a dangerous environment to leave unknown, and ocean scientists earned their keep by developing methods to detect enemy submarines. Th e entwinement of military needs, governmental policy, and ocean science continued aft er the war as the Cold War required improvements to anti-submarine technologies, surveillance techniques, and undersea communication (Hamblin 2005;Laughton et al 2010;Oreskes 2003;Robinson 2018). Th e US Navy funded ocean science in this period for instrumental reasons, viewing the data it produced as central to national security, oft en in opposition to scientists' own opinions of the utility of their work (Hamblin 2002).…”

Section: Knowing the Ocean: Drawing Liquid Linesmentioning

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Ocean Thinking

Crockford

2020

Environment and Society

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How do scientists produce the ocean as space through their work and words? In this article, I examine how the techniques and tools of oceanographers constitute ocean science. Bringing theoretical literature from science and technology studies on how scientists “do” science into conversation with fine-grained ethnographic and sociological accounts of scientists in the field, I explore how ocean science is made, produced, and negotiated. Within this central concern, the technologies used to obtain data draw particular focus. Juxtaposed with this literature is a corpus by ocean scientists about their own work as well as interview data from original research. Examining the differences between scientists’ self-descriptions and analyses of them by social scientists leads to a productive exploration of how ocean science is constituted and how this work delineates the ocean as a form of striated space. This corpus of literature is placed in the context of climate change in the final section.

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“…Like the atmosphere, the ocean is a space that humans can only experience and interpret in mediated ways, either through science and technology, or through the imagination (Carroll, 2015). These human histories of the ocean proceed from the recognition that the sea is neither a flat, empty, nor static space of transfer and horizontal mobility at the surface, but rather an inhabited and dynamic space of depth, volume, and fluidity (e.g., Hamblin, 2005;Mills, 2009;Oreskes, 2014;Reidy, 2008;Robinson, 2018;Steinberg & Peters, 2015). Attending to the history of oceanography and the role of oceans in human history aligns with efforts among water historians to reengage with the connections between saltwater and fresh (Mukherjee, 2015).…”

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Climate, weather, and water in history

Morgan

2018

WIREs Climate Change

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This essay integrates the largely separate trajectories of climate and water histories, their distinct historiographies, and their different methods and expertise. Informed by the human-nature insights of environmental history and historical geography, this paper identifies four intersections between histories of climate and water: first, conceptualizations of the climate and hydrological systems; second, adaptations to climate and hydrological variability and change; third, weather control; and finally, water over time. These particular intersections shed light on shared concerns for human relations to water and climate across different spatial and temporal scales; the development and function of networks of environmental knowledge; the formation and impact of environmental imaginaries; and the emergence of particular cultures of risk and resilience. The English-language histories of climate and water to which I refer pertain largely to the study of the 19th and 20th centuries in relation to the spread of European and North American empires. Histories of water, I argue, offer more personal and localized insights into histories of climate and climate change.

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Ocean Science and the British Cold War State

Cited by 6 publications

References 51 publications

Pen portraits of Presidents – Prof. Henry Charnock, CBE, FRS

Pen portraits of Presidents – Prof. Henry Charnock, CBE, FRS

Ocean Thinking

Climate, weather, and water in history

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