Water World: How the Sciences of Water Went Global

FAIN: FZ-231582-15

Sarah Crawford Dry
Unaffiliated independent scholar

A book-length history of global knowledge about climate and water spanning more than a century and a half and based on a wide array of scientific disciplines, including meteorology, oceanography, atmospheric sciences, and glaciology.

Water World: How the Sciences of Water Went Global describes 150 years in the history of the sciences of water. Spanning meteorology, oceanography, atmospheric sciences and glaciology, the book tells the history of our global understanding of climate and water. Few specialist books on this important subject exist, fewer still for general readers. By spanning more than a century and a half and covering a wide array of scientific disciplines, Water World aims to give readers a firm understanding of how global knowledge about climate has been made in different scientific fields. Each chapter places a unique moment, individual and place in studies of water, ice and vapor in the wider social, political and cultural context of its time. Rich archival sources, including interviews with living participants, enable me to construct a gripping and well-paced narrative history of landmark moments in the generation of a global awareness of the earth’s climate.

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Making the planetary personal: the roots of climate science (Article)
Title: Making the planetary personal: the roots of climate science
Author: Sarah Crawford Dry
Abstract: Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unravelled the Mysteries of our Seas, Glaciers, and Atmosphere — and Made the Planet Whole Sarah Dry Scribe UK (2019) The roots of climate science stretch back further than many suspect — long into the nineteenth century. Victorian physicist John Tyndall’s work on glaciers, for instance, helped to pave the way for twentieth-century science by the likes of meteorologist Joanne Simpson, oceanographer Henry Stommel and palaeoclimatologist Willi Dansgaard. In her remarkable Waters of the World, historian Sarah Dry brings to life this chain of researchers who helped to reveal the dynamics of Earth’s planetary systems and humanity’s growing impact on them.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02739-6?utm_source=twt_nnc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=naturenews&sf219546441=1
Format: Journal
Publisher: Nature

Sarah Dry's WATERS OF THE WORLD (in convo w/ Etienne Benson) (Web Resource)
Title: Sarah Dry's WATERS OF THE WORLD (in convo w/ Etienne Benson)
Author: Sarah Crawford Dry
Abstract: Please join us for a reading and discussion with SARAH DRY author of "WATERS OF THE WORLD: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets, and Made the Planet Whole" who will be in conversation w/ Etienne Benson
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://www.pennbookcenter.com/event/sarah-drys-waters-world-convo-w-etienne-benson

What the Weather Is (Article)
Title: What the Weather Is
Author: Sarah Crawford Dry
Abstract: Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/19/sarah-dry-weather-climate-science/
Publisher: The New York Review of Books

The Best Science Books of 2019 (Article)
Title: The Best Science Books of 2019
Author: Barbara Kiser
Abstract: The Best Science Books of 2019 recommended by Barbara Kiser It's been another fabulous year for science books that make important scientific developments accessible to a general audience. Barbara Kiser, Books & Arts Editor at Nature, talks us through her favourite science books of 2019.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://fivebooks.com/best-books/science-2019-barbara-kiser/
Publisher: Five Books

Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole (Book)
Title: Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole
Author: Sarah Crawford Dry
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=022650770X
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry (022650770X)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 022650770X

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