Life on the rocks : building a future for coral reefs / Juli Berwald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berwald, Juli, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coral reefs and islands.

Coral reef conservation.

atolls.

Physical Description:

336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Riverhead Books, 2022.

Summary:

"Coral reefs are a microcosm of our planet: wondrously diverse, deeply interconnected, and critically imperiled. They sustain entire ecosystems and protect vulnerable coasts. But corals across the planet are in the middle of an unprecedented die-off, beset by warming oceans, pollution, human damage, and their own devastating pandemic. Even under stress, they are out-of-this world gorgeous, sending out warning flares in fluorescent bursts of yellow, pink, and indigo. Juli Berwald fell in love with coral reefs as a marine biology student, entranced by their beauty and complexity. While she was concerned by bleaching events and coral disease, she didn't fully understand what a dead reef meant until she experienced one on a dive: barren, decaying, and coated in slime. Deeply alarmed, she traveled the world desperate to discover how to prevent their loss. Life on the Rocks is a meditative ode to the reefs and the undaunted scientists working to save them against almost impossible odds. Berwald explores what it means to keep fighting a battle that can't be won, contemplating the inevitable grief of climate change and the beauty of small victories"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I REEF FUTURES

1. Fairy Land of Fact

2. Crazy Ideas

3. The Issue of Scale

4. Buying Excitement

pt. II WHAT KEEPS A REEF TOGETHER

5. A Badass Merger

6. Hopeful Monsters

7. Tiny Architects

8. Bleaching Beginnings

9. Bleaching Bombardment

10. Unmasking Immunity

11. The Holobiont

12. Throwing Shade

pt. III FLORIDA

13. Fragmentation

14. Outbreak

15. Lesion by Legion

pt. IV SULAWESI

16. The Tragedy of Scale

17. The Scale of Tragedy

18. A Place to Restore

19. A Reef of Hope

20. A Blast in Makassar

21. Reef Stars

22. Galaxy of Potential

pt. V BALI

23. The Coral Cloud

24. The Coral Farm

25. A Prayer for the Sea

pt. VI DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

26. The Scale of Tourism

27. Corals on Ice

28. A Coral Named Romeo

29. Synchrony of Spawn

30. Coral Kindergarten

31. Category 5

pt. VII WASHINGTON, D.C.

32. X-tinguished

33. The Lifeboats

34. Reef Investments

pt. VIII AUSTRALIA, FROM AFAR

35. Cancellation

36. Collapse

37. Flicker

38. Survival Genes

39. Brightening

40. The Coin Toss.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Berwald, Juli. Life on the rocks

ISBN:

9780593087305

0593087305

OCLC:

1259292850