father of three science and engineering majors.
Kathy Carroll supports the Earth Science Division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. She previously
worked as a manager and organizer at for-profit and non-profit
organizations and on political campaigns. She is a diehard
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Lawrence Friedl directs the Applied Sciences Program in the Kevin Ward manages NASA’s Earth Observatory Group,
Earth Science Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.
including the Earth Observatory, Visible Earth, NASA Earth
He works to enable innovative and practical uses of data
Observations (NEO), and EONET. He holds a master’s degree
from Earth-observing satel ites. He has worked at the U.S.
in library and information science and has spent more than
Environmental Protection Agency and as a Space Shuttle flight
20 years developing Web-accessible resources in support of
control er in NASA’s Mission Control Center. He and his wife
NASA Earth science communications. He and his wife have
have three children, and he enjoys ultimate frisbee and hiking.
a son and a deep love of music.
Stephen Schaeberle is a graphic designer with the
Communications Support Services Center at NASA
Headquarters. He holds a bachelor of fine arts from the
Pratt Institute, and he has received numerous awards and
honors for his work and designs. He enjoys boating and
fishing on the Chesapeake Bay.
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Document Outline
Front cover
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Foreword
Atmosphere Curving Cloud Streets, Brazil and Bolivia
A Trio of Plumes, South Atlantic Ocean
Filling the Valleys, Peru
A Glorious View, Pacific Ocean
Punching Holes in the Sky, United States
Bering Streets, Arctic Ocean
Riding the Waves, Mauritania
Cloud Shadow, Germany
Double Trouble, Pacific Ocean
Making Tracks, Pacific Ocean
Tracing the Coast, China
Four Mountains Stand Out, Pacific Ocean
Framing an Iceberg, South Atlantic Ocean
Valley Fog, Canada
Holuhraun Lava Field, Iceland
Lofted Over Land, Madagascar
Tea-Colored Rupert Bay, Canada
Coral Cocos, Indian Ocean
Bay of Whales, Russia
Storms Stir Up Sediment, Bermuda
The Meeting of the Waters, Brazil
A Lava Lamp Look at the Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean
Teeming Life in the Strait of Georgia, Canada
Ephemeral Lake Frome, Australia
Dueling Blooms, Barents Sea
A Bay Sculpted by Ice, Canada
Tidal Flats and Channels, Bahamas
The Blooming Baltic, Baltic Sea
Waves Beneath the Waves, Trinidad
Land of Lakes, Canada
Plankton and Sulfur, Namibia
Åland Islands, Scandinavia
Crater Lakes with Clear Water, Canada
Mergui Archipelago, Southeast Asia
Scarlet Lake Natron, Tanzania
Swirling Bloom off Patagonia, Argentina
Land A Curious Ensemble of Wonderful Features, United States
Megadunes and Desert Lakes, Mongolia
Colorful Faults of Xinjiang, China
Bowknot Bend, United States
From Rainforest to Rain Shadow, United States
A Blaze of Color, Sweden
Folds and Curves of the Kavir, Iran
Fanning Out in Farmland, Kazakhstan
The Zones of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Liwa Oasis, United Arab Emirates
Don Juan Pond, Antarctica
Linear Dunes, Caprivi Strip, Namibia
Harratt Lunayyir Lava Field, Saudi Arabia
Taranaki and Egmont, New Zealand
Cultivating a Border, China and Kazakhstan
Barrier Islands, Brazil
Tsauchab River Bed, Namibia
Ice and Snow Mertz Loses Part of Its Tongue, Antarctica
Swimming with Ice Cubes, United States
Franz Josef Land, Arctic Ocean
No Green in This Land, Greenland
Mackenzie Meets Beaufort, Canada
Sea Ice at Shikotan, Japan and Russia
North Patagonian Icefield, South America
Manning Island and Foxe Basin, Canada
Ice Water, United States
Omulyakhskaya and Khromskaya, Russia
Phytoplankton on Ice, Antarctica
Heart-Shaped Uummannaq, Greenland
Puma Yumco, China
Grounded in the Caspian, Kazakhstan
Ice-Covered Delta, Canada
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Credits
About the Authors
Back cover
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