Plans

The list of things that need to be done (or that I'd kind of like to do) includes such items as:

1. including a graphic showing a T-S diagram for all the water masses;
2. including photographs with all of the biographical entries;
3. including drawings or photographs of the various sampling and measuring devices;
4. an appendix listing the significant journals in which oceanographic research is published (or has been published) with appropriate details (addresses, statement of purpose, etc.);
5. an appendix listing significant books in the field along with appropriate details (publishing info, a brief editorial description, etc.);
6. deciding whether to attempt to meld the regional geographical maps within the text or to put them in a separate section or appendix;
7. an appendix listing the institutions at which oceanographic degrees are conferred and/or research is performed along with appropriate details (although some of these will be included in the main part as historical entries);
8. including entries of significant research vessels along with pictures of them (although I'm not quite sure how or where to draw the line here);
9. making a CD-ROM (that will either accompany the text or be available as a supplement) that will contain a hypertext version of the glossary as well as bonus items such as color versions of the maps, the shell scripts used to produce the maps, the bathymetric data files used to produce the maps, etc.;
10. including more entries describing reasonably stable and useful software of specific interest to oceanographers;
11. including some larger maps as either fold-outs or in a separate pouch or packet, at least for a short series of global maps showing bathymetry (Heezen and Tharp?), locations of currents, locations of institutions, details of historical voyages or expeditions, etc.;
12. an interactive piece of software (also on the CD-ROM) that allows the reader to create or tweak his own versions of the regional maps (e.g. with or without geographics, with a different set of bathymetric contours, etc.) that could be based on the GMT software package.