Surveyors of Empire explores the groundbreaking work of these engineers, which formed the basis of The Atlantic Neptune, a four-volume hydrographic atlas that stands as a monument of European Enlightenment science.
Created for the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, the original heritage agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Topics include the colonial heritage of hydrography in Canadians waters, the politics behind the creation of the service, and the work of the agencies that were amalgamated with the Georgian Bay Survey to create the new national body.
Hydrographic data include water temperature; salinity; total phosphorus; total Kjeldahl nitrogen; pH; dissolved oxygen; turbidity; water transparency; chlorophyll a, b, and c; astacin and nonastacin carotenoids; and primary productivity ...