A Journey in Antarctica: Exploring the Future of the White Continent

by Sergio Rossi

Overview

Having always been fascinated by these singular landscapes, Sergio Rossi reconstructs some of the episodes that have marked the exploration of these territories, such as the dramatic race between Amundsen and Scott to conquer the South Pole, and Captain Shackleton’s odyssey to save his crew from certain death. But also modern trips including his own to these remote areas, explaining many aspects of the current science and political competition that is underway.

The book leads us on an entertaining overview of all the problems and opportunities that the planet’s most forgotten continent offers to humans. A remote mass of ice upon which our future as a species depends and which we cannot continue to ignore any longer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030894924
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	02/08/2022
Series:	Springer Praxis Books
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Sergio Rossi is an Associate professor at DiSTeBA (Università del Salento) and Permanent Professor of Labomar (Universidade Federal do Cearà) , specialized in marine natural resources and biological oceanography. His main subjects are health status bioindicators of benthic coastal populations, energy fluxes in the bentho-pelagic coupling processes, sescape restoration, blue carbon and the management and conservation of wild marine fauna. Sergio Rossi has more than 140 SCI publications, has participated in more than 60 national and international congresses and in 50 scientific and applied projects. He is also a scientific journalist and writer, with 10 published books (Oceans in Decline, Copernicus, Springer-Nature, among others).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The continent at the end of the world.- Chapter 2: A brief history of an arduous discovery.- Chapter 3: Paleoclimate: looking for the importance of Antarctica.- Chapter 4: Survival lessons: Mars on Earth.- Chapter 5: Perpetually moving glaciers: where icebergs emerge.- Chapter 6: The Antarctic ice floe.- Chapter 7: Microbes.- Chapter 8: Ice, algae, krill.- Chapter 9: Life in the dark: a diversity explosion under the ice.- Chapter 10: Birds at the end of the world.- Chapter 11: Large mammals of the white continent.- Chapter 12: Climate change: not so isolated.- Chapter 13: What happened in Larsen?.- Chapter 14: Organisms and climate change.- Chapter 15: The ozone layer and Antarctica.- Chapter 16: Pollutants in a pristine place.- Chapter 17: The final resort.- Chapter. 18: Remote fishing grounds.- Chapter 19: Ecotourism and invasive species.- Chapter 20: The Antarctic Treaty.- Chapter 21: Antarctic bases.- Chapter 22: Living on an ocean-going icebreaker.- Chapter. 23: The last bastion of an unspoiled planet.