The Facts On File Dictionary of Marine Science, New Edition contains more than 2,500 entries--;more than 350 of which new or revised--;covering the basic vocabulary of marine science. This updated edition features the most up-to-date terms and explanatory charts and graphs related to this multidisciplinary field, which encompasses biochemistry, botany, chemistry, ecology, geodesy, geography, geology, geophysics, hydrology, meteorology, microbiology, minerology, seismology, and zoology.

The back matter has been revised, new line illustrations have been added, and a bibliography with resources and Web sites aid further research on this topic. Helpful appendixes include the geologic time scale, a chronology of events in marine history, and marine science research projects.

New and revised coverage includes:

• The complex relationships between ocean and air, ocean and non-photosynthesizing life forms, and ocean and geophysics
• Carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, water cycles, and global warming
• New ideas on pollution--what it does to Earth's oceans, and how to deal with it
• New organisms
• New technological advances in data gathering