New Book Available
"The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change"
By: Charles Wohlforth
For book excerpts, interviews, reviews, discussion board, and ordering
information, please go to:
http://www.wohlforth.net
For information on the special banquet presentation by the author at
Arctic Forum 2004, please go to:
http://www.arcus.org/annual_meetings/2004/reception.html
BOOK OVERVIEW
This book, by Alaskan author Charles Wohlforth, focuses on the Arctic
community of Barrow, Alaska, and the Eskimo whalers and scientific
researchers there. It explores each culture's way of perceiving and
responding to the changes that are occurring in the Arctic environment,
and then draws broader lessons about our ability to know nature and our
cultural path to mitigating and adapting to climate change. Written for
a popular audience, it has already been positively reviewed.
Publisher's Weekly: "Part adventure story, part science writing
accessible to the general reader, this thoroughly engaging volume
provides rich insight into ways of dealing with climate change."
San Francisco Chronicle: "Never has the complicated science of climate
change been presented so clearly."
Men's Journal: "In brawny profiles of far-flung researchers, native
whalers, and other way-up-northerners he details the way humans are
themselves changing in the face of a mutating planet, 'the adventure of
surviving and thriving as human organisms in a new natural world.'"
Library Journal: "In this truly extraordinary book, journalist
Wohlforth, an Alaskan resident, tackles the central question of our age:
how do we know about our environment?"
SPECIAL PRESENTATION
Charles Wohlforth will give a special banquet presentation at the Arctic
Forum 2004 in Washington, DC. His presentation will take place on
Thursday, 13 May 2004 at 6:30 p.m. at the Washington Terrace Hotel.
During the banquet, Charles will discuss his experiences with Inupiaq
whalers and climate change researchers striving to understand and adapt
to a radically shifting arctic landscape.
We encourage all Annual Meeting and Arctic Forum meeting participants to
attend. Members of the public are also welcome to attend the banquet for
a $40.00 fee. Guest tickets may be purchased at the meeting registration
site, however, reservations must be made beforehand.
Banquet Reservation Deadline: Friday, 7 May 2004
For information on the special banquet presentation by the author at
Arctic Forum 2004, please go to:
http://www.arcus.org/annual_meetings/2004/reception.html