he oceans.
I will admit I feel like I am totally awful at doing reasearch in the first place, or at least when it comes to writing reasearch papers.... I have been stumped for weeks so far when it finally hit me....I am writing a papper on how science is employed in a science fiction novel, why should i bother with all these litterary sources that mostly shower me with essays about the characers..when I am writing about the setting and the authors handiwork.
I realized I should be looking at scientific sources.
Yet having never undertaken something like this before, I am not sure where to start looking, do any of you have any advice
Note; Before someone starts, I am NOT asking anyone to do my research for me, I am merely asking if anone knows of some good publicly available websites hosting say information on the growth rates of corral or weather patterns over and in the pacific ocean, etc and especially in regrds as to what would have been known in the 1860's.