James Melville Gilliss
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James Melville Gilliss was an astronomer, United States naval officer and founder of the United States Naval Observatory.
James Melville Gilliss
Santa Lucia Hill, site of Gilliss' observatory in Santiago, Chile.
Oceanography
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Oceanography, also known as oceanology, sea science, ocean science, and marine science, is the scientific study of the ocean, including its physics, chemistry, biology, and geology.
James Melville Gilliss
…USS James M. Gilliss (AMCU-13), a minesweeper built in 1945. USNS James M. Gilliss (T-AGOR-4), an oceanographic research ship launched 1962. Butowsky, Harry (1989). "United States Naval Observatory". Astronomy and Astrophysics National Historic Landmark Theme…
HMS Challenger undertook the first global marine research expedition in 1872.
Ocean currents (1911)
Writer and geographer John Francon Williams FRGS commemorative plaque, Clackmannan Cemetery 2019
The Applied Marine Physics Building at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science on Virginia Key, in September 2007