He was an iconoclast communicator he was on the Science Advisory Board of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, and, from 1957 to 1973, he created вЂњ Our New Age,вЂќ a Sunday cartoon feature for science literacy that appeared in the color comics section of some 93 American newspapers. He first proposed the idea of sea grant colleges, as a balance to the land grant charters that characterize many American state universities, the concept that underlies the Sea Grant Programs that train students and support programs in ocean science to this day. Spilhaus, who died in 1998, had a fascinating mind and career. In 1936, Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus, a South African geophysicist and oceanographer, immigrated to the United States, and Joined the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts where he developed the bathythermograph, a tool enabling measurement of ocean depths and temperatures from a moving vessels, a breakthrough in ocean science and in submarine warfare. It has proved a difficult argument, one reason being that is hard to visualize. As a new paradigm for survival in the 21st century, I have been promoting the idea of вЂњhydraulic society,вЂќ a world organized around the value of the ocean, our living in вЂњhydrospaceвЂќ where water and all its integrated nurturing elements must be the core of our future values, structures, and behaviors, the focus around which we invent and prioritize actions for the future. Visualization, then, is a powerful tool for understanding, beyond data, that enables transformative perspection and opens our minds and conventions to question. We suddenly saw ourselves, not as a balance of power, but as an entirety of Nature. It was both an exhilarating and humbling worldview, that fostered, partially, a sense of stewardship of something so precious and not to be corrupted or destroyed. That world view was challenged when, in 1972, a photograph of Earth from space, taken by the Apollo 17 space mission, revealed our planet as fragile entity in a cosmic ocean, a вЂњblue marble,вЂќ mostly water, protected by a wafer-thin layer of atmosphere, itself vulnerable, primarily from anthropomorphic action from within. On the surface, it appears a balanced view, a terrestrial equilibrium, that affirms land mass as its focus, surrounded by an indifferent sea. We have been schooled to visualize and understand our global arrangement by maps and projections, specifically the Mercator projection that aligns the hemispheres, west and east, in a relationship that has informed our relations, conflicts, and cultures as apposite, often opposite. How do we change the way we see the world? The Spilhaus World Ocean Map, a projection of earth centered on Antarctica, makes the ocean the focus of an astonishing worldview, pushing the land to the outer edges of the square and re-organizing our global geography around the true natural systems of the world ocean.

Visualization is a powerful tool for understanding, opening our minds and enabling transformative change through a new way of seeing. Centered in Antarctica, the world oceans come together to form a singular, connected, contiguous body of water. The Spilhaus Projection World Ocean Map was developed in 1942 by Dr.

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