Marine natural science

Japanese: 海洋自然科学 - かいようしぜんかがく
Marine natural science

…The ocean is closer to us than outer space, but there are many places where light and radio waves cannot reach from the land where humans live, so there are many unknown things there. Oceanography includes marine natural science, which aims to study natural phenomena in the ocean and explore the physical and chemical properties of seawater, humanistic marine science, which examines the relationship between the ocean and humans, and research into technologies and methods that support such research, but in the narrow sense it refers to marine natural science. The term ocean as a research subject not only includes seawater and the substances and living things contained therein, but recently has come to include the seabed, which is the container for seawater, and the lower atmosphere, which is the lid of the ocean. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "marine natural sciences" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…宇宙空間などに比べると海はより身近にあるが,人類が生息する陸上からは,光も電波も届かない所が多いため,そこには未知の事柄も多い。 海洋学は,海の自然現象の研究や海水の物理的・化学的性質の探究をめざす海洋自然科学,海と人類とのかかわりを調べる人文海洋科学,それらの研究を支援する技術や手法の研究等を包含するが,狭い意味では海洋自然科学をさす。研究の対象としての海ということばの中に,海水およびその中に含まれる物質や生物はもちろんのこと,最近では海水の容器である海底や海の蓋にあたる下層大気をも含めることが多くなった。…

※「海洋自然科学」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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