James Fargo Balliett

Oceans (eBook, PDF)

Environmental Issues, Global Perspectives

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Covering 71 percent of the planet, oceans provided the unique environmental conditions necessary for the building blocks of life to form billions of years ago and continue to support life in important ways today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317463672
• Artikelnr.: 42042121

Autorenporträt

James Balliett graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, studying environmental issues and writing. His senior thesis was about a winter he spent on the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire. Two years later, he was awarded his masters of science degree in environmental studies from Antioch New England Graduate School.

His experiences include a project for the US Forest Service in southeast Alaska, work for the harbormaster in Chatham, Massachusetts, and as a natural resource officer in Barnstable, Massachusetts where he helped manage a piping plover colony. While living in Burlington, Vermont, Balliett was a reporter for the Burlington Free Press and worked at the Chamber of Commerce where he directed their government affairs office. While living in Colorado's front range, he served as an advocacy manager for Housing Colorado. He currently resides on Cape Cod and writes for the Cape Codder Newspaper, covering a range of community, environmental, and business news. His five environmental science books (mountains, forests, wetlands, freshwater, and oceans) make up a set on Environmental Issues, Global Perspectives.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Introduction to Oceans
Chapter 1 Oceans Around Us
Chapter 2 Humans and Oceans
Chapter 3 Ocean Locations
Part II Oceans of the World Case Studies
Chapter 4 Gulf of Alaska Pacific Ocean
Chapter 5 Mid-Atlantic Ridge Atlantic Ocean
Chapter 6 Maldive Islands Indian Ocean
Chapter 7 Antarctic Peninsula Southern Ocean
Chapter 8 North Sea Atlantic Ocean
Chapter 9 Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Pacific Ocean
Chapter 10 Sargasso Sea Atlantic Ocean
Part III Oceans Conclusion
Chapter 11 State of the Oceans
Chapter 12 Future of the Oceans