Booklets | Selection 2 | Guenter G. Rodewald | Consultant
The contents Prologue 1. The continent at the end of the world 2. Brief history of an arduous discovery 3. Palaeoclimate: the importance of the Antarctic 4. Lessons in survival: Mars on Earth 5. Glaciers in perpetual movement: where the icebergs come from 6. The Antarctic ice field 7. Microbes 8. Ice, algae, krill 9. Life in the dark depths: an explosion of diversity beneath the ice 10. Birds at the end of the world 11. The large mammals of the white continent 12. Climate change: not so isolated 13. What happened at Larsen? 14. Organisms and climate change 15. The ozone layer and the Antarctic 16. Pollutants in the unpolluted place 17. The last resource 18. Remote fishing grounds 19. Ecotourism and invasive species 20. The Antarctic Treaty 21. Antarctic bases 22. Living on an ocean-going icebreaker 23. Visions from the last virgin bastion Epilogue
The author Sergio Rossi was born in Barcelona in 1969. He is half Italian, half Spanish, and is a consummate observer of nature. Doctor in Biological Sciences from the University of Barcelona, he has since 2007 been a researcher at the Environmental Science and Technology Institute (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona), while having also worked for over thirteen years at the Sea Sciences Institute-CSIC in Barcelona. He specialises in marine biology and conservation and has taken part in various scientific expeditions that have led him to travel all over the world: the Antarctic, California, Reunión, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, and others. He has been involved in various scientific projects devoted to studying the communities of organisms in the Antarctic, the impact of climate change, overexploitation of fishing, tourism in coastal zones and the hazards that confront protected marine areas. He is co-author of the scientific novels Medusa (2007) and The Cementery of Icebergs (2010), and also the series of children’s books on the environment The Kraratek Team (2011). And the sole author of a scientific essay devoted to the current state of our oceans: The Blue Planet: An Universe in Extinction (2011). He has also published papers in specialised research journals, and has contributed as writer and photographer in diverse scientific information media, such as Público, El País, Revista GEO, Investigación y Ciencia, Muy Interesante, Quercus and Inmersión, among others. More info: www.uklitag.com Contact: Sandra Rodericks Ute Körner Literary Agent, S.L. sandra.rodericks@uklitag.com
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The author<br />
Sergio Rossi was born in Barcelona in 1969. He is half Italian, half Spanish, and is a<br />
consummate observer of nature. Doctor in Biological Sciences from the University<br />
of Barcelona, he has since 2007 been a researcher at the Environmental Science<br />
and Technology Institute (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona), while having also<br />
worked for over thirteen years at the Sea Sciences Institute-CSIC in Barcelona.<br />
He specialises in marine biology and conservation and has taken part in various<br />
scientific expeditions that have led him to travel all over the world: the Antarctic,<br />
California, Reunión, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, and others.<br />
He has been involved in various scientific projects devoted to studying the<br />
communities of organisms in the Antarctic, the impact of climate change, overexploitation<br />
of fishing, tourism in coastal zones and the hazards that confront<br />
protected marine areas.<br />
He is co-author of the scientific novels Medusa (2007) and The Cementery of<br />
Icebergs (2010), and also the series of children’s books on the environment The<br />
Kraratek Team (2011).<br />
And the sole author of a scientific essay devoted to the current state of our oceans:<br />
The Blue Planet: An Universe in Extinction (2011).<br />
He has also published papers in specialised research journals, and has contributed<br />
as writer and photographer in diverse scientific information media, such as Público,<br />
El País, Revista GEO, Investigación y Ciencia, Muy Interesante, Quercus and<br />
Inmersión, among others.<br />
More info: www.uklitag.com<br />
Contact:<br />
Sandra Rodericks<br />
Ute Körner Literary Agent, S.L.<br />
sandra.rodericks@uklitag.com
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