The Blue PlanetBrian Skinner was born and raised in Australia, studied at the University of Adelaide in South Australia, worked in the mining industry in Tasmania, and in 1951 entered the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, from which he obtained his Ph. D. in 1954. Following a period as a research scientist in the United States Geological Survey in Washington D. C., he joined the faculty at Yale in 1966, where he continues his teaching and