Gary C. Howard, Matthew R. Kaser

Making and Unmaking of Puget Sound (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Puget Sound is a complex fjord-estuary system in Washington State that is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Juan de Fuca Strait and surrounded by several large population centers. This book describes the natural history and evolution of Puget Sound over the last 100 million years through the present and into the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429945915
• Artikelnr.: 63158777

Autorenporträt

Gary C. Howard is science editor and writer. He spent over 20 years at the Gladstone Institutes of the University of California San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and at Harvard University. He has edited several books, including three books for CRC Press.

Matthew R. Kaser is a Senior Partner at Bell & Associates in San Francisco and has been a part-time lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences at California State University East Bay. He was on the faculty of the Department of Pediatrics, UCSF, an NIH Fellow at Habor-UCLA Medical Center and held postdoctoral researcher positions at the University of California Irvine, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and at Oxford University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Puget Sound Then and Now
Chapter 2 Geological Origins of the Puget Sound
Chapter 3 Water
Chapter 4 Geomorphology of Puget Sound
Chapter 5 Early Biology of Puget Sound
Chapter 6 Humans Arrive
Chapter 7 Puget Sound Today
Chapter 8 Biology of Puget Sound
Chapter 9 Protecting and Restoring Puget Sound
Chapter 10 Puget Sound in the Future
Index