Sylvia Earle
Autor de Sea Critters
Sobre El Autor
Sylvia Earle can lay claim to the titles marine botanist, environmentalist, businesswoman, writer, and deep-sea explorer. Of them all, the last is perhaps the one that most captures the imagination. She has spent more than 6,000 hours (over seven months) underwater. In 1979, she attached herself to mostrar más a submarine that took her, at times as fast as 100 feet per minute, to the ocean floor 1,250 feet below. Dressed in a "Jim suit," a futuristic concoction of plastic and metal armor, she made the deepest solo dive ever made without a cable connecting her to a support vessel at the surface. This daring dive is comparable to the NASA voyage to the moon 10 years before. In 1984 Earle became the co-designer (with Graham Hawkes) of Deep Rover, a deep-sea submersible capable of exploring the midwaters of the ocean. Their company, Deep Ocean Technology, went on to develop a second-generation submersible, Deep Flight, that can speed through the ocean at depths of as much as 4,000 feet. Currently under development is Ocean Everest, expected to operate at a depth of up to 35,800 feet, which will take scientists to the deepest parts of the sea. Although the uses of submersibles are still largely scientific, Earle hopes that they might one day transport laypeople to the bottom of the sea. She feels that the "experience of flying through a dark ocean, of watching the lights of a luminescent creature flash all around us" might help us gain more respect for the largely unexplored ocean world. In addition to the scientific work that led to her being appointed in 1990 as chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Earle has worked tirelessly to educate the public. Working with Al Giddings, she coauthored a documentary film, Gentle Giants of the Pacific, which appeared on public television in 1980. In the same year, their book Exploring the Deep Frontier appeared. It includes a discussion of the "Jim dive." Her most recent scientific and environmental work has been to assess the environmental damage caused by the Prince William Sound oil spill and the results of Iraq's destruction of some 400 oil wells during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Coastal America / U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Obras de Sylvia Earle
Obras relacionadas
Place Matters: Geospatial Tools For Marine Science, Conservation, And Management in the Pacific Northwest (2005) — Prólogo — 4 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Earle, Sylvia
- Nombre legal
- Earle, Sylvia Alice
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1935-08-30
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Gibbstown, New Jersey, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Oakland, California, USA
- Educación
- Florida State University
Duke University - Ocupaciones
- oceanographer
explorer
author
lecturer - Organizaciones
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
California Academy of Sciences
University of California, Berkeley
Harvard University
Deep Ocean Engineering
DOER Marine (mostrar todos 7)
National Geographic Society - Premios y honores
- Time Magazine's Hero for the Planet (1998)
Order of the Golden Ark
National Women's Hall of Fame (2000)
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
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Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 22
- También por
- 6
- Miembros
- 1,383
- Popularidad
- #18,591
- Valoración
- 4.2
- Reseñas
- 13
- ISBNs
- 40
Sylvia Earle is a major figure in the ocean world and she's focused her entire life on the ocean. Who better to write about this vast and amazing place? Her knowledge, combined with the absolutely amazing photographs taken by talented National Geographic photographers, makes for a comprehensive and impressive coffee table sized book. The book, while focused on the ocean as its primary topic, also discusses air/wind, fresh water, land, and more, because on this Earth ecosystem of ours, everything is intimately, inextricably connected and no one system can be divorced from any other. It is, indeed, this enduring balance, one that we humans are endangering, that maintains all of life on this beautiful blue planet.
The book covers the creation and history of the ocean(s), how it functions, the animals and organisms living in it (including a gorgeous fold out section showing some of the amazing creatures that live in the deep blue of the ocean), the technology--high and low--that we humans have used to explore and learn about this ever surprising and still relatively unexplored place, the outsized and terrible impact we are having on its failing health and the climate as a whole, and finishes with atlases of the oceans. The text is important and informative, although it can sometimes read a bit like an introductory class textbook. The photographs are as awe inspiring as you would expect coming from Nat Geo (and they make me want to slip on scuba gear right now). Earle does not hide or sugarcoat the alarming changes in the ocean in recent decades, almost all of which are human driven. She is absolutely an advocate for this stunning, powerful, unbelievably vast, and yet fragile source for sustaining all of life on Earth. This book is a beauty. It is a lesson. And it is visual wake-up call for us to protect and cherish our ocean. As Earle has made clear, we should want to, but we also don't have a choice. We have to.… (más)