Subjects:  1. Estuarine Oceanography    2. Estuarine ecology    3. Life Sciences - Ecology    4. Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems    5. Limnology    6. Marine Life    7. Mexico, Gulf of    8. Nature    9. Nature/Ecology    10. Science    11. Southern States    12. Freshwater biology, limnology    13. Oceanography (seas)    14. Sea & seashore life   

Subjects:  1. Earth Sciences - Oceanography    2. Environmental Science    3. Estuarine Oceanography    4. Estuarine pollution    5. Fisheries & Aquaculture    6. Marine Pollution    7. Science    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Management of land & natural resources    10. Pollution of rivers & water supplies    11. Pollution of seas & oceans    12. Science / Marine Biology   

Subjects:  1. Coastal Engineering    2. Coasts    3. Congresses    4. Earth Sciences - Geology    5. Earth Sciences - Oceanography    6. Engineering - Hydraulic    7. Environmental Engineering & Technology    8. Estuarine Oceanography    9. Marine sediments    10. Science    11. Science/Mathematics    12. Oceanography (seas)    13. Science / Geophysics   

Subjects:  1. Aquatic Ecology    2. Congresses    3. Estuarine Oceanography    4. Estuarine ecology    5. Fisheries    6. Fishes    7. Hudson River Estuary (N.Y. and    8. Hudson River Estuary (N.Y. and N.J.)    9. Marine Life    10. Nature / Field Guide Books    11. Nature/Ecology   

Subjects:  1. Coasts    2. Congresses    3. Earth Sciences - Oceanography    4. Estuarine oceanography    5. Ocean mixing    6. Science    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Environmental science   

Subjects:  1. Congresses    2. Estuaries    3. Estuarine Oceanography    4. Estuarine ecology    5. Science/Mathematics   

Reviews (6)

An "essay" into language...
John Stilgoe's "Shallow Water Dictionary" is a fascinating essay onthe "lost" landscape of salt marshes and the language needed to describe them. He tracks down the sources of words such as "skiff" and explores the vagueness of definition found in words such as "creek", "brook", and "flotsam and jetsam". His references to historical dictionaries plot the changing importance of these wordsover time as society's attention wandered elsewhere.
It's about seeing
Many who read this will miss the main point. Of course it's about words, but it's more about "seeing" as in "I see." Frost said that he wrote as he wrote so that the wrong people wouldn't get it and be saved. This book has some of that in it. Don't let its almost being a dictionary or the title fool you.
Estuary English is Fascinating
What a gem of a book! Who would have know that a topic as esoteric as the 19th century English of eastern American coastal marshes could be so interesting, and that such a small book could deliver so much information? One learns the correct usage of the word "creek", the difference between a "gutter" and a "guzzle", the etymology of "schooner", and a detailed description of the elusive "gundalow". John Stilgoe provides some great comparisons of the unabridged dictionaries of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, as well.
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Subjects:  1. English Language Dictionaries    2. English language    3. Estuaries    4. Estuarine Oceanography    5. General    6. Linguistics    7. Reference    8. Salt marshes    9. Terminology    10. Terms and phrases    11. Dictionaries    12. Garden design & planning    13. Non-Classifiable    14. USA   

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Business/Economics    3. Coastal zone management    4. Earth Sciences - Oceanography    5. Estuarine Oceanography    6. Life Sciences - Ecology    7. Real Estate - General    8. Science    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Applied ecology    11. Management of land & natural resources    12. Science / Ecology   

Subjects:  1. Coast changes    2. Congresses    3. Estuaries    4. Estuarine Oceanography    5. Mathematical models    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Tide-waters    8. Physical geography   

Subjects:  1. Estuarine oceanography    2. Marine algae    3. Marine borers    4. Marine fouling organisms    5. Saint Johns River    6. Saint Johns River (Fla.)   

Subjects:  1. Coasts    2. Earth Sciences - Geology    3. Environmental Science    4. Estuaries    5. Estuarine Oceanography    6. Geophysics    7. Science    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Sedimentary Geology    10. Oceanography (seas)    11. Physical geography    12. Science / Geology    13. Soil science, sedimentology   

Subjects:  1. Coast changes    2. Congresses    3. Earth Sciences - Oceanography    4. Estuaries    5. Estuarine Oceanography    6. Hydrodynamics    7. Mathematical Models    8. Science    9. Science/Mathematics   

Subjects:  1. Chemical Oceanography    2. Estuarine Oceanography    3. Environmental science    4. Science / Biology   

Subjects:  1. Congresses    2. Dynamic Oceanography    3. Earth Sciences - Geology    4. Estuarine oceanography    5. Hydrodynamics    6. Mathematical models    7. Oceanography    8. Science   

Subjects:  1. Dispersion    2. Earth Sciences - Oceanography    3. Environmental Engineering & Technology    4. Environmental Science    5. Environmental Studies    6. Estuarine Oceanography    7. Oceanic mixing    8. Science    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Oceanography (seas)    11. Pollution of rivers & water supplies    12. Pollution of seas & oceans    13. Technology / Environmental    14. Water supply & treatment   

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Overview and case studies of impacted estuaries
Estuary Restoration and Maintenance: The National Estuary Program Michael J. Kennish, editor. CRC Press. 1999. 359 pp. ...Read more

Subjects:  1. Earth Sciences - Oceanography    2. Environmental Science    3. Environmental Studies    4. Estuarine Oceanography    5. Estuarine restoration    6. Fish    7. Life Sciences - Biology - Marine Biology    8. Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems    9. Marine Ecology    10. National Estuary Program (U.S    11. National Estuary Program (U.S.)    12. Nature/Ecology    13. Science    14. United States    15. Conservation of the environment    16. Deltas, estuaries, coastal regions    17. Management of land & natural resources    18. Science / Marine Biology    19. USA   

Subjects:  1. Biogeochemical cycles    2. Biogeochemistry    3. Estuarine Oceanography    4. Estuarine ecology    5. Fish    6. Life Sciences - Ecology    7. Mexico, Gulf of    8. Nature    9. Science    10. Science/Mathematics    11. Applied ecology    12. Ecological science, the Biosphere    13. Geochemistry    14. Gulf of Mexico    15. Science / Biochemistry    16. Soil science, sedimentology   

Subjects:  1. Estuarine Oceanography    2. Estuarine ecology    3. Marine Ecology    4. Marine Life    5. Nature / Field Guide Books   

Subjects:  1. Chemical Oceanography    2. Congresses    3. Estuarine oceanography    4. Geochemistry   

Subjects:  1. Aquatic biology    2. Coastal zone management    3. Connecticut    4. Estuarine oceanography    5. Niantic River    6. Niantic River Estuary    7. Niantic River Estuary (Conn.)