Ocean Globe offers 12 chapters that focus mainly on techniques used to map the seafloor. It aims to show how GIS is being used to share information and to test hypotheses in marine ecology and conservation management. The book is edited by Joe Breman from International Underwater Explorations, which appears to be a commercial GIS business based in Hawaii. The book is published by ESRI Press, a company that has wrapped expensive tentacles around the practice of GIS worldwide (your reviewer is unashamedly a proponent of free GIS!). The many full-color illustrations are well produced, and, although an odd size on my bookshelf, the volume is attractively designed and reasonably priced…

Pitcher, T.J. 2010. Floor for the mapping: A review of Ocean Globe, edited by J. Breman. Oceanography 23(3):182–183, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2010.37.

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