Oceanography jobs focus on the science of analyzing the oceans: their geographical and marine parameters, the motion and the composition of their waters, biological components, and the management of their resources (environmentalscience.org).
Over the next decade, oceanography will continue to provide exciting discoveries by contributing new understanding of Earth as a system and by helping us understand how humankind is altering the system. It is now essential (and possible) to study ocean processes on a global scale. The oceanographic data will provide not only a reliable scientific basis for climate, ecological, disaster and other scientific research, but also provide an unprecedented rich source of information that can be used to make predictions of the future
Read MoreModern oceanography began as a field of science only a little less than 130 years ago, in the late 19th century, after Americans, British and Europeans launched a few expeditions to explore ocean currents, ocean life, and the seafloor off their coastlines. People have been gathering information about the ocean for millennia accumulating bits and pieces of knowledge and passing it on by word of mouth. Curious individuals must have acquired their first idea of the oceans from wondering about the seashore. Wading in the shallows and gathering food from the ocean edge. During the Paleolithic period, humans developed the barbed, spear, or harpoon and the gorge. At the beginning of the Neolithic period, the bone fishhook was developed, and later the net.
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