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Below the Edge of Darkness
A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea
Buch von Ph.D. Edith Widder
Sprache: Englisch

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"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 ... On her first visit to the deep ocean, in an experimental diving suit that took her to a depth of eight hundred feet, she turned off the suit's lights and witnessed breathtaking explosions of bioluminescent activity. Concerns about her career went out the window. She just wanted to know one thing: why was there so much light down there? ... Alongside Widder, we experience life-and-death equipment malfunctions and witness breakthroughs in technology and understanding, all of it set against a growing awareness of the deteriorating health of our largest and least understood ecosystem"--
"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 ... On her first visit to the deep ocean, in an experimental diving suit that took her to a depth of eight hundred feet, she turned off the suit's lights and witnessed breathtaking explosions of bioluminescent activity. Concerns about her career went out the window. She just wanted to know one thing: why was there so much light down there? ... Alongside Widder, we experience life-and-death equipment malfunctions and witness breakthroughs in technology and understanding, all of it set against a growing awareness of the deteriorating health of our largest and least understood ecosystem"--
Über den Autor
Edith Widder, Ph.D., is an oceanographer, a marine biologist, and the co-founder, CEO, and senior scientist at the Ocean Research & Conservation Association, a nonprofit organization where she is focusing her passion for saving the ocean into developing innovative technologies to preserve and protect the ocean’s most precious real estate: its estuaries. She has given three TED talks; has been awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, as well as the Explorer’s Club Citation of Merit; and is the first recipient of the Captain Don Walsh Award for Ocean Exploration established by the Marine Technology Society and the Society of Underwater Technology.
Details
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780525509240
ISBN-10: 0525509240
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Edith Widder, Ph.D.
Hersteller: Random House Publishing Group
Maße: 236 x 163 x 32 mm
Von/Mit: Ph.D. Edith Widder
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.07.2021
Gewicht: 0,6 kg
Artikel-ID: 119331728
Über den Autor
Edith Widder, Ph.D., is an oceanographer, a marine biologist, and the co-founder, CEO, and senior scientist at the Ocean Research & Conservation Association, a nonprofit organization where she is focusing her passion for saving the ocean into developing innovative technologies to preserve and protect the ocean’s most precious real estate: its estuaries. She has given three TED talks; has been awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, as well as the Explorer’s Club Citation of Merit; and is the first recipient of the Captain Don Walsh Award for Ocean Exploration established by the Marine Technology Society and the Society of Underwater Technology.
Details
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780525509240
ISBN-10: 0525509240
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Edith Widder, Ph.D.
Hersteller: Random House Publishing Group
Maße: 236 x 163 x 32 mm
Von/Mit: Ph.D. Edith Widder
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.07.2021
Gewicht: 0,6 kg
Artikel-ID: 119331728
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