Exploring the Blue Planet: The Scripps Hall of Oceanography

1992年春天，斯克里普斯海洋学研究所将开设一个新的水族馆博物馆。扩建后的厂房面积将达到3700平方米。斯克里普斯海洋学馆。该画廊正在为一个名为“探索蓝色星球”（Exploring the Blue Planet）的新展览申请资金，该展览将为参观者提供海洋科学的概览——据我们所知，这是美国唯一一个关于海洋学的大型展览。展览首先向参观者介绍我们的水星球，然后是海洋学研究的历史。然后邀请游客像自己是海洋学家一样探索海洋世界，沿着“水”的主题在大厅中进行发现，一个接一个地添加组件，构建一个全球系统：首先是水（水的化学成分和运动），然后是空气（气候和天气），接着是陆地（海底扩张和板块构造），最后是生命（生物对海洋环境的适应）。通过科学概念的互动展览，加上斯克里普斯相关研究项目的展览，参观者可以欣赏科学的过程及其在日常生活中的应用。《探索蓝色星球》的结束语将水、空气、土地和生命四个领域结合在一起，强调地球的本质是一个相互关联的全球系统。游客们了解到海洋学是一门跨学科的科学，在全球范围内，在实践中往往是国际化的，它有助于对全球变化和我们在地球上的未来进行平衡和全面的调查。

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.