Ice Chronicles : The Quest to Understand Global Climate Change - 02 edition

Mayewski, Paul Andrew : University of Maine in Orono

Paul Andrew Mayewski is Co-Director of the Institute for Quaternary and Climate Studies and Professor of Quaternary and Geological Sciences at the University of Maine in Orono and a Fellow of the Explorers Club and the American Geophysical Union. He founded and served as Director of the Climate Change Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. He led the Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two (GISP2), which helped establish our contemporary understanding of climatology. Currently he chairs a fifteen nation effort to explore the last 200 years of climate history over Antarctica and he leads the US field component for this activity, the International Trans Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE). He also leads scientific expeditions to the Himalayas.

White, Frank :

Frank White is author of The Overview Effect and The SETI Factor, and coauthor, with Isaac Asimov, of Think About Space and March of the Millennia.

"Through this book you will travel over the coldest places on earth -- glaciers, Greenland, Antarctica, and high mountains in the Himalaya. You will participate in the birth of an ambitious deep drilling project and discover the wealth of ice archives . . . Beyond the fascination of exploration and scientific discoveries you will be disturbed by the expected impact of global warming on our societies. This is a challenge that all of us have to face at the dawn of the 21st century."

--Claude Lorius, Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement, France

"We are fortunate to have this book, by polar scientist Paul Mayewski...and veteran science writer Frank White. In clean, clear prose, The Ice Chronicles informs us about the ice cores themseles, and the technical and politial efforts it took to obtain them. The narrative is accompanied by many boxed "technical features" and "adventure features". They are...engaging , informative and often charming. Often written in the first person, they succeed in pulling the reader into the experience."

--Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

University Press of New England Web Site, February, 2004