Rozwadowski, Helen M.

PERSONAL: Female. Education: Williams College, B.A.; University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., 1996.

ADDRESSES: Office—University of Connecticut, Avery Point Campus, 1084 Shennecossett Rd., Groton, CT 06340. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Groton, CT, assistant professor of history of science and coordinator of maritime studies.

AWARDS, HONORS: Ida and Henry Schuman Prize, History of Science Society; William E. and Mary B. Ritter fellowship, Scripps Institute of Oceanography; grants from National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, and Smithsonian Institution.

WRITINGS:

The Sea Knows No Boundaries: A Century of Marine Science under ICES, University of Washington (Seattle, WA), 2002.

(Editor, with David van Keuren) The Machine in Neptune's Garden: Historical Perspectives on Technology and the Marine Environment, Science History Publications (Sagamore Beach, MA), 2004.

Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea, Belknap Press of Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), 2005.

Contributor of scientific articles to scientific journals, including Public Historian, Minerva, Isis, and History and Technology; contributor to Discovery On-Line.

WORK IN PROGRESS: A book on underwater exploration during the cold war era.

SIDELIGHTS: Helen M. Rozwadowski specializes in maritime and environmental history, particularly on research involving the Atlantic Ocean during the twentieth century. It was in this era that the oceans became more than barriers to cross or sources of fish; they became frontiers for exploration and scientific endeavor. Rozwadowski's The Sea Knows No Boundaries: A Century of Marine Science under ICES offers a history of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), a body that pooled resources in order to study how the seas could be exploited without depleting fish species. More recently, ICES has studied the oceans' environmental degradation and has used gathered data to support the notion of global warming.

Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea examines the mid-twentieth-century scientific investigations of the Atlantic, including measurements of salinity, the effects of dredging, and the mapping of the ocean floor. The book also "addresses the social, cultural, and political aspects of this newfound interest," according to Margaret Rioux in Library Journal. Rioux felt that Rozwadowski's work provides an "excellent choice" for audiences interested in the history of science. A Publishers Weekly critic deemed Fathoming the Ocean an "amiable, in-depth examination of the most critical era for the development of modern oceanography" that it "should do well with maritime buffs."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Isis, September, 2003, Jacob Darwin Hamblin, review of The Sea Knows No Boundaries: A Century of Marine Science under ICES, p. 560; March, 2005, Steven J. Dick, review of The Machine in Neptune's Garden: Historical Perspectives on Technology and the Marine Environment, p. 153.

Library Journal, December 1, 2004, Margaret Rioux, review of Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea, p. 157.

Publishers Weekly, January 17, 2005, review of Fathoming the Ocean, p. 44.