Overview
Offers unique insights into a rapidly changing island on the World Heritage List
Serves as important historical link between the past observations and presumed futures ones
Provides an important reference for people involved with polar studies, and climate change
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About this book
This highly illustrated volume is a compendium of evidence and examples of change on Heard Island, a World Heritage Site near Antarctica and one of the most remote places on earth. Drawing on records from the past two centuries, as well as his own expeditions to the island in 1997 and 2016, the author provides visual evidence for the changes wrought by climate change, erosion, and environmental policy. Various phenomena not previously observed on Heard Island are documented, such as fluid dynamic instabilities and the destruction of the seawalls of a major lagoon. Based on the past, the author makes predictions about Heard Island for specific years in the future: 2031 (decade), 2051 (tricade), 2121 (century), 3021 (millennium), and 1,002,021 (millionium). The book serves as an important link between the past and future of Heard Island.
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Table of contents (36 chapters)
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Front Matter
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TWO CENTURIES OF CHANGE
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ROCKS
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WATER
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Robert William Schmieder is an American scientist and explorer. Schmieder has had a multidisciplinary career, broadly divided between physics and related physical sciences, and natural science and exploration. In most of his projects, he created and led teams of both professional scientists and volunteers. His work is documented in about 100 technical publications and 10 books. Among his most significant work was the invention of laser spark spectroscopy (now commercialized), the formulation of nanologic (the use of nanoscale devices in computers), and the concept of underwater islands (which led to designation of the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Heard Island
Book Subtitle: Two Centuries of Change, and More Coming
Authors: Robert William Schmieder
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20343-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20342-8Published: 10 June 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20345-9Due: 24 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-20343-5Published: 09 June 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 882
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 890 illustrations in colour
Topics: Climate Change, Polar Geography, Oceanography, Environmental Geography