Witness To A Changing Earth: A Geologist's Journey Learning About Natural and Human-caused Global Change
This book is of interest to all of you willing to gain perspective both in time and in depth about the global environmental crises we are facing in the Anthropocene as well as pondering potential solutions. Humans are dominating the Earth’s environment and causing global changes in the most recent geologic time called the Anthropocene. Global changes are caused by both natural events like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, or caused by humans like global warming and pollution of air, water, and soil. The author documents all types of global changes, beyond climate change, pointing out the risks for humanity when all these changes combine in time. Hans Nelson describes global changes while traveling through an earth scientist’s 60-year global journey. Throughout his memoirs, the author provides many humorous examples of adventures taking place during the scientific studies on land and at sea. He makes suggestions for a sustainable planet and shows that humans worldwide in the past, and can in the future, work together on solutions for global change problems.

Students can use this book to learn about the many aspects of global change and methods that marine geologists use to obtain data on geologic hazards, resources, and environmental changes.

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Witness To A Changing Earth: A Geologist's Journey Learning About Natural and Human-caused Global Change
This book is of interest to all of you willing to gain perspective both in time and in depth about the global environmental crises we are facing in the Anthropocene as well as pondering potential solutions. Humans are dominating the Earth’s environment and causing global changes in the most recent geologic time called the Anthropocene. Global changes are caused by both natural events like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, or caused by humans like global warming and pollution of air, water, and soil. The author documents all types of global changes, beyond climate change, pointing out the risks for humanity when all these changes combine in time. Hans Nelson describes global changes while traveling through an earth scientist’s 60-year global journey. Throughout his memoirs, the author provides many humorous examples of adventures taking place during the scientific studies on land and at sea. He makes suggestions for a sustainable planet and shows that humans worldwide in the past, and can in the future, work together on solutions for global change problems.

Students can use this book to learn about the many aspects of global change and methods that marine geologists use to obtain data on geologic hazards, resources, and environmental changes.

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Witness To A Changing Earth: A Geologist's Journey Learning About Natural and Human-caused Global Change

Witness To A Changing Earth: A Geologist's Journey Learning About Natural and Human-caused Global Change

by C. Hans Nelson
Witness To A Changing Earth: A Geologist's Journey Learning About Natural and Human-caused Global Change

Witness To A Changing Earth: A Geologist's Journey Learning About Natural and Human-caused Global Change

by C. Hans Nelson

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This book is of interest to all of you willing to gain perspective both in time and in depth about the global environmental crises we are facing in the Anthropocene as well as pondering potential solutions. Humans are dominating the Earth’s environment and causing global changes in the most recent geologic time called the Anthropocene. Global changes are caused by both natural events like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, or caused by humans like global warming and pollution of air, water, and soil. The author documents all types of global changes, beyond climate change, pointing out the risks for humanity when all these changes combine in time. Hans Nelson describes global changes while traveling through an earth scientist’s 60-year global journey. Throughout his memoirs, the author provides many humorous examples of adventures taking place during the scientific studies on land and at sea. He makes suggestions for a sustainable planet and shows that humans worldwide in the past, and can in the future, work together on solutions for global change problems.

Students can use this book to learn about the many aspects of global change and methods that marine geologists use to obtain data on geologic hazards, resources, and environmental changes.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783030718107
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication date: 09/08/2021
Edition description: 1st ed. 2021
Pages: 317
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hans Nelson has a B.A. from Carleton College, M.S. from the University of Minnesota and Ph.D. from Oregon State University. He spent 32 years working in the U. S. Geological Survey and 20 years at the CSIC in Spain. His studies and worldwide teaching for 60 years have resulted in 220 publications. Hans has served as Chief Scientist for 30 scientific expeditions, in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. He has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Barcelona, Brest and Utrecht in Europe and Blaustein Scholar at Stanford University. He is the recipient of multiple awards including the 2016 Kirk Bryan Award for Research Excellence of the Geological Society of America.

Table of Contents

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE

CHAPTER 1 GLOBAL WARMING

PATTERNS PROVIDING EVIDENCE FOR GLOBAL WARMING

Increased CO2 and CH4 in the atmosphere and warming climate

Ocean acidification from increased absorbtion of atmospheric CO2

Rising ocean temperatures and sea levels

Diminishing polar ice, mountain glaciers, permafrost and gas hydrates

16 record breaking air temperatures of the past 136 years since 2001

More intense extreme weather events e.g hurricanes, droughts, wildfires

Increasing animal extinction rates

CHAPTER 2 MY GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES

MY EARLY ADVENTURES RELATED TO POSSIBLE GLOBAL CHANGE

MY FIRST SCIENTIFIC LESSONS FOR GLOBAL CHANGE

UNIVERSITY LESSONS FOR GLOBAL CHANGE

MASTERS DEGREE LESSONS FOR GLOBAL CHANGE

ADVENTURES WHILE STUDYING CRATER LAKE

PhD GRADUATE SCHOOL LESSONS FOR GLOBAL CHANGE

ADVENTURES DURING PhD STUDIES

WORLDWIDE INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL CHANGE

FIRST USGS LESSONS IN ALASKAN GLOBAL CHANGE

LOOKING FOR GOLD RESOURCES IN OFFSHORE ALASKA

1960s ALASKAN ADVENTURES

EARLY 1970s RESOURCE & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES IN ALASKA

EARLY 1970s ALASKAN ADVENTURES

ALASKAN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS IN 1976

1976 ALASKAN ADVENTURES

ALASKAN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS IN 1977

1977 ALASKAN ANDVENTURES

1978 AND 1980 ALASKAN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS

1978 ALASKAN ANDVENTURES

POTENTIAL VOLCANIC HAZARDS IN CRATER LAKE, OREGON

CRATER LAKE ADVENTURES

HOW POLITICS AFFECTS GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH

GLOBAL CHANGE RELATED TO MARINE MAMMALS IN ALASKA

GLOBAL CHANGE EFFECTS ON WALRUS

GLOBAL CHANGE LESSONS FROM SPANISH STUDIES IN THE 1980s

RESOURCE AND GLOBAL CHANGE LESSONS IN GULF OF MEXICO

GULF OF MEXICO ANVENTURES AND GLOBAL CHANGE HAZARDS

RESOURCE AND GLOBAL CHANGE LESSONS IN LAKE BAIKAL

LAKE BAIKAL ADVENTURES AND GLOBAL CHANGE LESSONS

VAR & CORSICA HUMAN & NATURAL GLOBAL CHANGE LESSONS

ANTARCTIC ADVENTURES IN A NATURAL LANDSCAPE

GLOBAL CHANGES RELATED TO EARTHQUAKES

GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM

GLOBAL CHANGE LESSONS AND A SUSTAINABLE PLANET

CHAPTER 3 GLOBAL CHANGE AND EARTH SUSTAINABILITY

Introduction

Energy

The energy future

Clean air

Potable or safe drinking water

Arable soil or farmland

Radioactive global contamination of air, water and soil

Ocean fisheries, coastal habitats and pollution

Population control

Lake Tanganyika, an example of combined global change

Education as a solution for global sustainability

Summary for earth sustainability

TAKE HOME POINTS FOR A SUSTAINABLE PLANET


FINAL WORD ON GLOBAL WARMING

MESSAGE TO GLOBAL WARMING DENIERS AND SKEPTICS

POSITIVE SIGNS FOR FUTURE SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL CHANGE

INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS AND COOPERATION

NATIONAL AND LOCAL AGREEMENTS

TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION IMPROVEMENTS FOR HUMAN-CAUSED AND NATURAL GLOBAL CHANGE

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IMPROVED MEDIA COVERAGE FOR GLOBAL CHANGE

GLOBAL CHANGE AND THE FUTURE FOR HUMANS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

REFERENCES CITED

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