Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion (Scientists in the Field) - Hardcover

Burns, Loree Griffin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0618581316 ISBN 13: 9780618581313

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Describes the work of scientist Curtis Ebbesmeyer, whose multi-year project of tracking plastic items accidentally spilled by ocean cargo ships has heightened awareness of the dangers that these items present to ocean life and has inspired similar projects for other types of debris.

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Loree Griffin Burns, Ph.D., did her doctoral work far from the Pacific Ocean, at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. While writing this book, however, she made several trips to the Pacific coast. Ms. Burns lives in Massachusetts with her husband and children.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0618581316
• ISBN 13: 9780618581313
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 56
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