Title Fire in the Sea : Bioluminescence and Henry Compton's Art of the Deep.

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College Station : Texas A and M University Press, 2014.

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Edition	First edition.
Description	1 online resource.
Series	Gulf Coast books ; number twenty-five
	Gulf Coast books ; no. 25.
Note	Print version record.
Contents	Life in the deep sea -- Bioluminescence -- Hank Compton -- The art of Hank Compton / Mark Anderson -- Fire in the sea -- Appendix: Digitizing the artwork / Larry J. Hyde.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	The cold, stygian dark of the extreme sea depths is home to some of our planet's strangest creatures. Even their names evoke a science fiction adventure: dragonfishes, greeneyes, viperfishes, mirrorbellies, lanternfishes. Marine biologist Henry "Hank" Compton (1928-2005) of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's 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 photogra.
Subject	Compton, Henry, 1928-2005.
	Marine biologists -- Texas -- Biography.
	Marine artists -- Texas -- Biography.
	Bioluminescence.
	Deep-sea fishes -- Classification.
	Deep-sea fishes -- Pictorial works.
	Biology in art.
	Painting -- Conservation and restoration.
	SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biochemistry.
Other Form:	Print version: McKee, David A. Fire in the Sea. First edition. College Station : Texas A & M University Press 2014 9781623490317
ISBN	9781623491062 (electronic bk.)
	1623491061 (electronic bk.)
	9781306799669 (electronic bk.)
	130679966X (electronic bk.)

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