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Introduction
VICTOR THE VECTOR flows with the ocean currents. He learns about currents, temperature, waves, fronts, upwelling, etc. He gets into trouble along his journeys and makes many animal and plant friends. He and his mother Vera went in different directions. He searches for her and eventually they are united again. VICTOR THE VECTOR is an educative story for young people (ages 8-12)
She has written this story in her own time to tell young people about some of the things that she is dealing with in her profession. Catherine has always worked with kids in marine sciences as a hobby in the past and has taught full and part time from grades 6 through second year of college. She emphasizes the physics of the oceans to show them that math and physics can be fun and so that they might understand a little how the environment works.
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