Swimming sentinels : climate clues from stranded marine mammals
Thesis: S.M. in Science Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities, Graduate Program in Science Writing, 2016.
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| author | Geib, Claudia M. (Claudia Marjorie) |
| author2 | Thomas Levenson. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1067482022-02-07T15:39:28Z Swimming sentinels : climate clues from stranded marine mammals Geib, Claudia M. (Claudia Marjorie) Thomas Levenson. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Graduate Program in Science Writing. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Graduate Program in Science Writing MIT Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies Graduate Program in Science Writing. Thesis: S.M. in Science Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities, Graduate Program in Science Writing, 2016. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. From skinny sea lions on beaches in California, to hundreds of enormous dead whales in the fjords of Chile, scientists have been recently puzzled by a spate of dead and dying marine mammals. These events are so complicated- influenced by disease, biotoxins, ecosystem changes, and human interaction-that their cause can appear impossible to untangle. Yet a growing body of evidence strongly suggests that climate change has a hand in them all. This thesis examines marine mammal stranding events of the past and present to show how climate change will, and already has, impacted marine mammals, and how these events could serve as proxies for broader ecosystem changes in the years to come. By paying attention to whales and dolphins, seals and sea otters, we may be able to learn something about our planet, and how its changes will impact its most abundant mammal: us. by Claudia M. Geib. S.M. in Science Writing 2017-01-30T19:16:34Z 2017-01-30T19:16:34Z 2016 2016 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106748 969446822 eng MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 18 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Graduate Program in Science Writing. Geib, Claudia M. (Claudia Marjorie) Swimming sentinels : climate clues from stranded marine mammals |
| title | Swimming sentinels : climate clues from stranded marine mammals |
| title_full | Swimming sentinels : climate clues from stranded marine mammals |
| title_fullStr | Swimming sentinels : climate clues from stranded marine mammals |
| title_full_unstemmed | Swimming sentinels : climate clues from stranded marine mammals |
| title_short | Swimming sentinels : climate clues from stranded marine mammals |
| title_sort | swimming sentinels climate clues from stranded marine mammals |
| topic | Graduate Program in Science Writing. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106748 |
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