| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.4

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The Journey to PICES: Scientific Cooperation in the North Pacific. By Sara Tjossem. Fairbanks: Alaska Sea Grant College Program, 2005. xii + 194 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth $20.00.

If there is anything that truly distinguishes oceanic from terrestrial environmental history it must be the ocean's reluctance to cooperate with geo-political boundaries. As the work of Helen Rozwadowski, Jacob Hamblin, Joseph Taylor, Mark Kurlansky, and Kurk Dorsey have shown, the oceans of the world are usually international contact zones. Sara Tjossem's history of PICES follows suit. PICES is an intergovernmental body of scientists whose members belong to the six major nations that flank the North Pacific—China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Canada, and the United States. When compared to its northern Atlantic analog, ICES (the Northern Atlantic's International Council for the Exploration of the Seas), PICES is a relatively young organization whose charter dates to 1992. But the organization's mandate is similarly legion—it provides coordination and cooperation between scientists of member nations in order to create a scientific understanding of the physical and biological properties of the North Pacific. This took considerable time and negotiation to bring to fruition.

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