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Flotsametrics and the floating world : how one man's obsession with runaway sneakers and rubber ducks revolutionized ocean science / Curtis Ebbesmeyer and Eric Scigliano.
- Title
- Flotsametrics and the floating world : how one man's obsession with runaway sneakers and rubber ducks revolutionized ocean science / Curtis Ebbesmeyer and Eric Scigliano.
- Author
- Ebbesmeyer, Curtis C.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Smithsonian Books : Collins, c2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | GC231.2 .E23 2009 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Scigliano, Eric, 1953-
- Description
- xvi, 286 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Pioneering oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer unravels the mystery of marine currents, uncovers the astonishing story of flotsam, and changes the world's view of trash, the ocean, and our global environment by calling attention to the threats that global warming and disintegrating plastic waste pose to the seas...and to us.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-266) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780061558412
- 0061558419
- LCCN
- ^^2008038805
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library