Dedication
This book is dedicated to our teachers and colleagues, both past and present, who
forged new and exciting areas in marine mammal physiology and biochemistry.
There are some giants in this field who have left us, but who we still refer
to almost daily in our work: Laurence Irving and Per Scholander started
the modern work on the physiology of diving in the 1930s. It is hard to
imagine our field without their historical and groundbreaking work.
Dr. Knut Schmidt-Nielsen really did “write the book” on comparative
physiology, Animal Physiology: Adaptation and Environment (Cambridge
University Press, 1975), that was the core from which many of us were both
taught and that we used in our own classes as teachers. Of course, Irving,
Scholander, and Schmidt-Neilsen knew each other and worked together.
Dr. Ted Hammel broke ground on the modern aspects of thermoregulation
in mammals, including the marine species. In keeping with the pattern, he
also knew and worked with Irving, Scholander, and Schmidt-Nielsen.
Where would we be on the complexity of diving biochemistry without
Dr. Peter Hochachka? His ability to perceive and understand biochemical
pathways and to explore the new world of comparative biochemical adaptation
to the environment was second to none. By now, you can probably guess
that he also knew all of the scientists we have already mentioned.
The fascinating world of the neural control of the “diving reflex” was
explored by Dr. David Jones in a multitude of species, from rabbits to
whales, to ducks. He and Peter Hochachka were great friends, in the
same Zoology Department at the University of British Columbia.
Carl Hubbs, from Scripps, who identified many species of marine
mammals, was a contemporary with Irving and Scholander;
Ken Norris taught many of us about the ecological physiology of
marine mammals, “virtually created the field of cetology,” and
received his doctorate from Scripps as Hubbs’s PhD student.
This book is dedicated to our teachers and colleagues, both past and present, who
forged new and exciting areas in marine mammal physiology and biochemistry.
There are some giants in this field who have left us, but who we still refer
to almost daily in our work: Laurence Irving and Per Scholander started
the modern work on the physiology of diving in the 1930s. It is hard to
imagine our field without their historical and groundbreaking work.
Dr. Knut Schmidt-Nielsen really did “write the book” on comparative
physiology, Animal Physiology: Adaptation and Environment (Cambridge
University Press, 1975), that was the core from which many of us were both
taught and that we used in our own classes as teachers. Of course, Irving,
Scholander, and Schmidt-Neilsen knew each other and worked together.
Dr. Ted Hammel broke ground on the modern aspects of thermoregulation
in mammals, including the marine species. In keeping with the pattern, he
also knew and worked with Irving, Scholander, and Schmidt-Nielsen.
Where would we be on the complexity of diving biochemistry without
Dr. Peter Hochachka? His ability to perceive and understand biochemical
pathways and to explore the new world of comparative biochemical adaptation
to the environment was second to none. By now, you can probably guess
that he also knew all of the scientists we have already mentioned.
The fascinating world of the neural control of the “diving reflex” was
explored by Dr. David Jones in a multitude of species, from rabbits to
whales, to ducks. He and Peter Hochachka were great friends, in the
same Zoology Department at the University of British Columbia.
Carl Hubbs, from Scripps, who identified many species of marine
mammals, was a contemporary with Irving and Scholander;
Ken Norris taught many of us about the ecological physiology of
marine mammals, “virtually created the field of cetology,” and
received his doctorate from Scripps as Hubbs’s PhD student.