About the Author

Kathleen Crane is a Program Mangager in the Arctic Research Office of NOAA. Formerly a Professor at Hunter College, CUNY, and Adjunct Senior Scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Dr. Crane is the author of more than seventy scientific manuscripts, has written for Scientific American, published photographs in the National Geographic Magazine and is the author, with Jennifer Lee Galasso, of the Arctic Environmental Atlas published in 1999. Dr. Crane has been featured on National Geographic Explorer television. She lives in McLean, Virginia with her daughter.

Reviews

Being an oceanographer is not a boring occupation, especially if you're a woman trying to make it in what was, until very recently, an almost exclusively male field. Crane, program manager of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Arctic Research Office and coauthor of Arctic Environmental Atlas, shares her bumps, bruises, and ultimate successes in the field of marine geophysics. Some of the "tales" are not so pleasant-e.g., going to sea on traditionally all-male ships and enduring a chief scientist's mid-cruise nervous breakdown-but those are counterbalanced by exciting reports of major discoveries, such as that of the hydrothermal vents in the eastern Pacific, along with their thriving biological communities; and of participating in the first cooperative Russian-American research projects in the Arctic Ocean and Lake Baikal following the end of the Cold War. Crane is an excellent writer and an honest one in her vivid portrayal of the joys and difficulties of doing science in a man's world. Her memoir is essential for young people, especially women, considering careers in marine science. Highly recommended for high school, college, and public libraries.-Margaret Rioux, MBL/WHOI Lib., Woods Hole, MA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.