The Legacy of Gilberto M. Amado-Filho to South Atlantic Rhodolith Beds Knowledge: Memories of His Students
摘要
“I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” This quote is attributed to one of the most important scientists of our society, Sir Isaac Newton. However, it could easily be attributed to Gilberto M. Amado-Filho by those who have had the opportunity to know him. Pebbles (or gravels) were how extensive areas of the Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) had been classified before Dr. Amado-Filho took his diver gears down into several turbid waters of this portion of the Western Atlantic.