Author: C. Allen WortleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Written for designers and builders of small craft harbours in northern climates.
Ice Engineering Guide for Design and Construction of Small Craft Harbors
Author: C. Allen WortleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Written for designers and builders of small craft harbours in northern climates.
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Author: Dan EganPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393246442
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.
Great Lakes Ice
Author: Manual of Great Lakes Ice Forecasting
Author: C. Robert SniderGreat Lakes Ice Forecasting
Author: C. Robert SniderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ice on rivers, lakes, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Great Lakes Ice Atlas
Author: Raymond A. AsselPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ice on rivers, lakes, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Once and Future Great Lakes Country
Author: John L. RileyPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773589821
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
North America's Great Lakes country has experienced centuries of upheaval. Its landscapes are utterly changed from what they were five hundred years ago. The region's superabundant fish and wildlife and its magnificent forests and prairies astonished European newcomers who called it an earthly paradise but then ushered in an era of disease, warfare, resource depletion, and land development that transformed it forever. The Once and Future Great Lakes Country is a history of environmental change in the Great Lakes region, looking as far back as the last ice age, and also reflecting on modern trajectories of change, many of them positive. John Riley chronicles how the region serves as a continental crossroads, one that experienced massive declines in its wildlife and native plants in the centuries after European contact, and has begun to see increased nature protection and re-wilding in recent decades. Yet climate change, globalization, invasive species, and urban sprawl are today exerting new pressures on the region’s ecology. Covering a vast geography encompassing two Canadian provinces and nine American states, The Once and Future Great Lakes Country provides both a detailed ecological history and a broad panorama of this vast region. It blends the voices of early visitors with the hopes of citizens now.
The Dynamic Great Lakes
Author: Barbara SpringPublisher: America Star Books
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The five Great Lakes, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario with their connecting waters are the world's largest freshwater system; about 20 per cent of all the fresh surface water on this planet. Each lake differs from the other and yet these connected lakes are one flowing system connected to the Atlantic through the St. Lawrence River. Unique ecosystems evolved in these lakes since the last Ice Age but in the last 200 years commercial fishing and the Lamprey Eel wiped out larger fish. Shipping on the Great Lakes from all parts of the world has brought exotic species that threaten to topple food pyramids. Pollution carried through the air and water damages life in and around these lakes. Through knowledge, and the democratic process, The Dynamic Great Lakes encourages us to appreciate and understand these lakes and to get involved in finding answers to their problems.
Great Lakes Ice Atlas
Author: Donald R. RondyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A series of 33 charts illustrating the ice cover on the Great Lakes of North America for three classifications of winter: mild, normal and severe. Examines 20 years of temperature records for each lake, with six ice charts for each of the five great lakes (Erie, Huron, Ontario, Michigan and Superior) and threee charts for Lake St. Clair.
The Great Lakes Water Wars
Author: Peter AnninPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 159726637X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.