The reef at the end of the world
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939626682-MIT.pdf
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1.89 MB
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Author(s)
Sokol, Joshua (Joshua Daniel)
Advisor(s)
Marcia Bartusiak.
Date Issued
2015
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Flippers first, I splash into the year 2100. Graduate student Hannah Barkley and I are swimming in Nikko Bay, among the Rock Islands of Palau. Here the warm blue-green water resembles naturally what the tropical Pacific will be like by the end of the century, as carbon emissions take an ever-greater toll on the seas. It should be a window into a dire, climate-change future. But things here look fine. In Palau's Nikko Bay and a few other acidified Rock Island sites, life appears to be shrugging off a sneak preview of the coral-reef apocalypse. Now Barkley, her boss Cohen, and the rest of the team are trying to answer a few pressing questions. Are the corals really okay? And if so, how? Moreover, what does that mean?
Description
Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Comparative Media Studies, 2015.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Subjects
Comparative Media Studies.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Graduate Program in Science Writing
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