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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Language
English
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"Leah is changed. A marine biologist, she left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Edith Widder grew up determined to become a marine biologist. But after complications from a surgery during college caused her to go temporarily blind, she became fascinated by light as well as the power of optimism. Her focus turned to oceanic bioluminescence, a scientific frontier in our last earthly one, and with little promise of funding or employment she took a leap into the darkness. On her first visit to the deep ocean, in an experimental...
Author
Publisher
David Suzuki Institute/Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"In 2015, a team of researchers carefully removed a plastic straw from a sea turtle's nostril off the coast of Costa Rica. The disturbing incident, which was captured on video, went viral, leading to corporate straw bans around the world. In this evocative book, the marine biologist behind the camera, Christine Figgener, recounts her own life spent studying and protecting sea turtles. Figgener describes patrolling the beach at night, swimming with...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, a powerful debut memoir: the uplifting story of a young Black scientist's challenging journey to flourish outside the traditional confines of academia, inspired by her innate connection to nature's most misunderstood animal-the shark. You never forget your first shark. For Jasmin Graham, it was a little bonnethead, a type of hammerhead shark: three feet long, gray with a white...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Following a mysterious murder on an island off the coast of Vietnam, a research team convenes to study an octopus community that seems to be developing its own language and culture. Humans, AIs, and animals are swept up in the machinations of governments and corporations in this near-future thriller about the nature of intelligence."--
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Claire A. Nivola has won multiple awards for her captivating books introducing historical figures to young audiences. In this critically acclaimed profile of noted oceanographer Sylvia Earle, listeners follow Sylvia as her childhood adventures in the Gulf of Mexico help inspire her life's work: discovering the secrets of ''the blue heart of the planet.''
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Follow the remarkable journey of Jeanne Villepreux-Power from her childhood in a small French village to her life as a naturalist in nineteenth century Messina, Sicily, where she conducted groundbreaking research and invented aquariums."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 2002, the author was a blissful 28 year old, backpacking through Asia with her fiance. While in shallow water, he was stung by a box jellyfish, the most venomous animal in the world, and was dead within minutes. Untethered, she ventured to countries with tumultuous pasts and extreme sociopolitical environments: Oswiecim, Poland (the site of Auschwitz); wartorn Israel; shelled-out Bosnia; poverty-stricken Romania. This book is her own deeply...
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