Marco Tedesco

Ice

Tales from a Disappearing World

Buch

One of the least known and least inhabited parts of the world, Greenland is a singular place on Earth from which to look for the future of our planet and question its history.Glaciologist Marco Tedesco, a world-leading expert on ice and on climate change, takes us along as he and his fellow researchers conduct all-important measurements to understand the dramatic changes afoot on the immense polar ice cap. Following a day in the life of this disappearing world, Tedesco tells us about improbable polar camels, cryoconite holes (the only place where life grows in the icy expanse), gigantic meteorite debris, the epic deeds of great Arctic explore… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Flores D'Arcais, Alberto (Zus. mit)

ISBN: 978-1-4722-7425-0
EAN: 9781472274250
Produktnummer: 33566951
Verlag: Headline Book
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Masse: H22.2 cm x B13.8 cm

Über den Autor

Marco Tedesco is an Italian polar scientist whose research focuses on snow, ice and climate change in the polar regions. After receiving his PhD from the University of Naples, he spent five years as a research scientist at NASA, and later founded the Cryosphere Process Laboratory. He is now a professor at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Observatory. Tedesco has been featured in Science and has spoken as a climate change expert for The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Wired, and others.