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Environmental Oceanography: Topics and Analysis takes an active learning approach to teaching environmental oceanography by focusing on case studies, critical analysis, and math literacy. Marine environmental issues are presented in self-contained analytical exercises. Information and questions on sustainability are integrated throughout and ask students to think critically about these pressing concerns. Appropriate for a wide range of readers, this resource works well as a stand-alone text, a lab-based course book, and as a supplement to main texts in oceanography and marine science for those who would like to add an active learning focus to their course. Environmental Oceanography is sure to engage and excite readers and prompt them to think critically about the relevant environmental issues facing the oceans today.

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Dr. Daniel C. Abel is an Associate Professor of Marine Science at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC, where his research focuses on ecology of sharks along the southeast Atlantic coast. He earned his Ph.D. in marine biology from the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He is co-author of the textbooks Environmental Issues: An Introduction to Sustainability (3rd ed.) and Environmental Issues in Oceanography (2nd ed.), and writes the weekly environmental column Sea Level for the Myrtle Beach Sun News. Dr. Abel is a Fellow of the SC Sustainable Universities Initiative and a Senior Fellow of the U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development. He is the founding director of CCU’s Campus and Community Sustainability Initiative. He resides in Pawley’s Island, SC. Dr Robert McConnell is a Senior Fellow with the U.S. Partnership, Education for Sustainable Development, and Professor (emeritus) of Environmental Science and Geology, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA. He is co-author of Environmental Issues, An Introduction to Sustainability (3rd ed.) and Environmental Issues in Oceanography (2nd ed.). He is also author of more than two dozen commentary articles in major newspapers such as the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlanta Constitution, Philadelphia Enquirer, and Richmond Times-Dispatch. He lives and works in Corvallis, Oregon

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