Exploring the Blue Planet: The Scripps Hall of Oceanography

1992年春天，斯克里普斯海洋研究所将开设一个新的 水族馆博物馆 扩建后的设施将包括一个3700平方米。英尺 斯克里普斯海洋学馆（Scripps Hall of Oceanography） 要求提供资金， 在这个画廊的新展览，探索蓝色星球，这将提供 参观者对海洋科学的概述-据我们所知， 美国海洋学的主要展览。 展览首先 向游客介绍我们的水星球，然后步行穿过 海洋学研究的历史 然后邀请游客探索 海洋世界，就像他们自己是海洋学家一样， 发现，因为他们遵循“水”的主题通过大厅，并补充说， 一个接一个的组成部分，建立一个全球系统：首先是水（水 化学和运动），然后添加空气（气候和天气），接下来 增加陆地（海底扩张和板块构造），最后增加 生命（生物对海洋环境的适应）。 通过 关于科学概念的互动展览，以及关于 相关的斯克里普斯研究项目，游客获得赞赏的 科学及其在日常生活中的应用。 的 探索蓝色星球的结论汇集了四个领域 水，空气，土地和生命的本质，强调地球作为一个 相互关联的全球体系。 参观者了解到海洋学， 跨学科的科学是全球性的规模，往往 在实践中的国际性，有助于平衡和全面的 研究全球变化和我们在地球上的未来

In spring of 1992, Scripps Institution of Oceanography will open a new Aquarium-Museum. The enlarges facility will include a 3700 sq. ft. gallery, the Scripps Hall of Oceanography. Funding is requested for a new exhibit in this gallery, Exploring the Blue Planet, which will offer visitors an overview of the ocean sciences -- to our knowledge, the only major exhibit on oceanography in the United States. The exhibit first introduces visitors to our water planet, followed by a walk through the history of oceanographic research. Visitors are then invited to explore the ocean world as if they were oceanographers themselves, making discoveries as they follow the theme of "water" through the hall, adding components one-by-one to build a global system: first water alone (water chemistry and movements), then adding air (climate and weather), next adding land (seafloor spreading and plate tectonics), and finally adding life (adaptations of organisms to the marine environment). Through interactive exhibits on scientific concepts, coupled with exhibits on related Scripps research projects, visitors gain an appreciation for the process of science and its application to their everyday lives. The conclusion of Exploring the Blue Planet brings together the four realms of water, air, land and life to emphasize the nature of Earth as an interrelated global system. Visitors learn that oceanography, an interdisciplinary science that is global in scale and often international in practice, lends itself to a balanced and comprehensive investigation of global change and our future on earth.