History of Marine Biology

Question 1

Aristotle

Answer 1

Father of Marine Biology

Question 2

Captain James Cook

Answer 2

Mapped the Pacific, New Zealand and Australia

Question 3

Charles Darwin

Answer 3

Created the theory for Atolls

Question 4

Sir Charles Wyville Thomson

Answer 4

Chief scientist on the challenger, discovered a wide variety of invertebrates and that deep sea temperatures are not constant indicating oceanic circulation

Question 5

Edward Forbes

Answer 5

Came up with the Azoic Theory

Question 6

The Challenger

Answer 6

First ship with laboratories and discovered Marians trench.

Question 7

Station Biologique de Roscoff

Answer 7

French marine biology and oceanography research and teaching center

Question 8

Spencer Fullerton Baird

Answer 8

Established the first fish commission

Question 9

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Answer 9

Oldest and larges center for ocean research with several research vessels

Question 10

William Beebe

Answer 10

First to use the bathysphere

Question 11

Otis Barton

Answer 11

Invented the Bathysphere

Question 12

Challenger Deep

Answer 12

Deepest part of the ocean in Marianas Trench

Question 13

Trieste

Answer 13

Bathyscaphe that was the first to explore Marianna’s Trench

Question 14

Rachel Carson

Answer 14

Created a nation wide ban on DDT/pesticides

Question 15

Dr. Sylvia Earle

Answer 15

First female chief of the NOAA and researched algae

Question 16

Dr. Robert Ballard

Answer 16

Discovered hydrothermal vents and numerous shipwrecks including the titanic

Question 17

Jacques Cousteau

Answer 17

Invented the aqua lung

Question 18

Dr. Hans Hass

Answer 18

Developed the first underwater diving equipment facilitating free movement on the ocean floor for longer period of time.