At Every Depth - Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans

Sommario

Prologue
1. The Tide Pool
2. The Reef
3. The Forest
4. The Gardens
5. The Abundant Ocean
6. The Open Ocean
7. The Polar Worlds
8. The Deep
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Info autore

Tessa Hill is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department at the University of California, Davis, who teaches and researches oceanography and climate change. She is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and she was awarded the Rachel Carson Lecture by the American Geophysical Union.

Eric Simons is a science writer who was a longtime editor at Bay Nature magazine. He is the author of Darwin Slept Here (2009) and The Secret Lives of Sports Fans (2013). In addition to writing about science, nature, and the ocean, he teaches high school math.

Riassunto

The oceanographer Tessa Hill and the science journalist Eric Simons profile efforts to understand and protect marine environments, taking readers to habitats from shallow tidepools to the deep sea.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Tessa Hill, Tessa Simons Hill, Hill Tessa, Eric Simons, Simons Eric
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 26.01.2024
• EAN: 9780231199704
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19970-4
• Pagine: 280
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Natura; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geologia; NATURE / Animals / Marine Life, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Oceanography, Sea life and the seashore: general interest, Sea life & the seashore, Oceanography (seas and oceans), Oceanography (seas), nature; science