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Fire in the Sea: Bioluminescence and Henry Compton's Art of the Deep (Gulf Coast Books, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Corpus C): 25 (Gulf Coast ... by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi) free ebook download

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Date:	2021	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1623490316
Pages:	184	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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The cold, stygian dark of the extreme sea depths is home to some of our planets strangest creatures. Even their names evoke a science fiction adventure: dragonfishes, greeneyes, viperfishes, mirrorbellies, lanternfishes. Marine biologist Henry Hank Compton (19282005) of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Departments Rockport Marine Lab was present on some of the earliest Gulf of Mexico cruises on which these fishes were collected for the first time in Texas waters.

Upon returning, Compton would retire to the darkroom he had constructed beneath a stairwell at the lab and photograph the specimens. A talented artist, Compton then painted watercolors based on his photographs. He allowed free rein to both his scientific judgment and his artistic vision as he constructed representations of how the specimens might have appeared in the crushing pressure of their alien environment.

Compton dubbed the series of deep-water paintings Fire in the Sea because of the shimmering bioluminescence common to these deep-water species. Then, along with taxonomic descriptions, he drafted fanciful narratives to accompany the paintings: quirky, humorous, and sometimes cryptic stories of the fishes in their unreachable habitat.

Professor, researcher, and author David A. McKee has taken Comptons work, discovered in cardboard boxes following his death, and, along with others, provided chapters on bioluminescence, life in the deep, taxonomic arrangement, and life history information.
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Fire in the Sea: Bioluminescence and Henry Compton's Art of the Deep (Gulf Coast Books, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Corpus C): 25 (Gulf Coast ... by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi) free ebook download

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