Title: Polar Research: To the Present, and the Future (AAAS Selected Symposium 7)
Author: McWhinnie, Mary A.
Publisher: Westview Press, Inc.,
Date: 1978
ISBN: 0891584358
Format: Hardcover, 309 pages
Edition: First Edition
Printing [if applicable]: 1st Printing (Presumptive)
Book Condition: Near Fine-
Jacket Condition: No Jacket (As Issued)
Dimensions (if available): 9.25 x 6.25 x 1.0 in. approx.
Keywords: Polar, Research, Present, Future,
DESCRIPTION: From the book description: "Highlighting twenty years of U.S. scientific research conducted since the International Geophysical Year (IGY) of 1957-58, this volume marks a turning point in the history of polar investigations and provides a lucid summary of the contributions of many distinguished scientists. The authors provide an overview of major polar research programs, past and present; explore concepts derived from highly interrelated aspects of physical and life sciences; and seek to offer a glimpse of future polar science and polar development.
"The introduction briefly describes major physical, biological, and interdisiciplinary research programs, as well as the magnitude, extent, and international character of contemporary polar sciences. Twenty years of polar biological investigations are then reviewed, and subsequent chapters address principles and advances in meteorology, physical oceanography, glaciology, and the geological evidence that bears on the origins of Antarctica. These physical sciences delineate a matrix for the polar biospheres and provide a background for understanding the major categories of structure and dynamic fuctioning of the marine ecosystem, polar marine mammals, adaptational physiology, and terrestrial biotic adaptations."
AAAS Selected Symposium, No. 7.
CONDITION: Book in excellent condition, no observed damage or defects to binding or text block, most minor of shelf-wear to the covers. Hardcover, no dustjacket. 309 pages.
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