Meet Scientist Abby Sallenger, Author of Island in a Storm

This gripping recreation of a deadly 1856 hurricane also illuminates social history, weather, science, and the growing threat to vulnerable coasts

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Abby Sallenger received his Ph.D. in Marine Science from the University of Virginia and is the former Chief Scientist of the U.S. Geological Survey's Center for Coastal Geology. He presently leads the USGS Extreme Storms research group.

Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast, and a Nineteenth-Century Disaster that Warns of a Warmer World (Hardcover)

By Abby Sallenger

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9781586485153
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Published: PublicAffairs, 6/2009

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