Science on ice
Subtitle: four polar expeditions
By: Chris Linder with Helen Fields, Lonny Lippsett, Amy Nevala, and Hugh Powell
Contributors: Fields, Helen; Lippsett, Lonny; Nevala, Amy; Powell, Hugh D. W.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780226482477
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Spring; Ocean bottom ecology; Adélie penguin; Description and travel; Glaciers
Description: An oceanographer and award-winning photographer, Linder chronicles four polar expeditions in this richly illustrated volume: to a teeming colony of Adľie penguins, through the icy waters of the Bering Sea in spring, beneath the pack ice of the eastern Arctic Ocean, and over the lake-studded surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Chris Linder; title: Adélie penguins: life at the edge of what's possible / by Hugh Powell; title: Searching for spring in the Bering Sea / by Helen Fields; title: Exploring the Arctic seafloor / by Lonny Lippsett; title: Greenland's glacial lakes / by Amy Nevala; title: Photo notes / by Chris Linder.