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9th Ave: Christina Gerhardt with Zina Deretsky

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Join us on Monday, July 17th at 7pm PT when Christina Gerhardt celebrates the release of Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean with illustrator Zina Deretsky at 9th Ave

Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/p8rdUxuA8l0

Praise for Sea Change

"A stunning atlas of the present and future."--Rebecca Solnit, author of several books including Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases--San Francisco, New Orleans, New York

"Islands are extraordinarily rich-in history, culture, and biodiversity. In an age of climate change, they're also incredibly vulnerable. At once lyrical and clear-sighted, Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean invites us to rethink our relationship to these magical, threatened places." --Elizabeth

Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
"An impassioned plea to save what remains of these remarkable island communities."--Booklist, starred review

About Sea Change

One of the Best Science Books of 2023, New Scientist.

This immersive portal to islands around the world highlights the impacts of sea level rise and shimmers with hopeful solutions to combat it.

Atlases are being redrawn as islands are disappearing. What does an island see when the sea rises? Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean weaves together essays, maps, art, and poetry to show us--and make us see--island nations in a warming world.

Low-lying islands are least responsible for global warming, but they are suffering the brunt of it. This transportive atlas reorients our vantage point to place islands at the center of the story, highlighting Indigenous and Black voices and the work of communities taking action for local and global climate justice. At once serious and playful, well-researched and lavishly designed, Sea Change is a stunning exploration of the climate and our world's coastlines. Full of immersive storytelling, scientific expertise, and rallying cries from island populations that shout with hope--"We are not drowning! We are fighting!"--this atlas will galvanize readers in the fight against climate change and the choices we all face.

About Christina Gerhardt

Christina Gerhardt is Associate Professor and Founder of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, and Senior Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. Previously, she was the Barron Professor in the Environment and the Humanities at at Princeton University. She has been awarded fellowships by the Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Newberry Library and the Rachel Carson Center. She has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, the Free University Berlin, Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley, where she taught previously.

She is also an environmental journalist and has been published (under "Tina Gerhardt") in Grist.org, The American Prospect, The Nation, The Progressive, Sierra and the Washington Monthly. Her most recent book is Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean published by University of California Press.

About Zina Detetsky

Zina Deretsky is a science and medical illustrator trained at Yale and Johns Hopkins University. She has worked for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and at and with the California Academy of Sciences, the Peabody Museum and the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Her work has been published by Science, Nature, Discover, Astronomy, BBC, MSNBC and the Washington Post among other books and publications.
Join us on Monday, July 17th at 7pm PT when Christina Gerhardt celebrates the release of Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean with illustrator Zina Deretsky at 9th Ave

Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below
https://youtube.com/live/p8rdUxuA8l0

Praise for Sea Change

"A stunning atlas of the present and future."--Rebecca Solnit, author of several books including Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases--San Francisco, New Orleans, New York

"Islands are extraordinarily rich-in history, culture, and biodiversity. In an age of climate change, they're also incredibly vulnerable. At once lyrical and clear-sighted, Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean invites us to rethink our relationship to these magical, threatened places." --Elizabeth

Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
"An impassioned plea to save what remains of these remarkable island communities."--Booklist, starred review

About Sea Change

One of the Best Science Books of 2023, New Scientist.

This immersive portal to islands around the world highlights the impacts of sea level rise and shimmers with hopeful solutions to combat it.

Atlases are being redrawn as islands are disappearing. What does an island see when the sea rises? Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean weaves together essays, maps, art, and poetry to show us--and make us see--island nations in a warming world.

Low-lying islands are least responsible for global warming, but they are suffering the brunt of it. This transportive atlas reorients our vantage point to place islands at the center of the story, highlighting Indigenous and Black voices and the work of communities taking action for local and global climate justice. At once serious and playful, well-researched and lavishly designed, Sea Change is a stunning exploration of the climate and our world's coastlines. Full of immersive storytelling, scientific expertise, and rallying cries from island populations that shout with hope--"We are not drowning! We are fighting!"--this atlas will galvanize readers in the fight against climate change and the choices we all face.

About Christina Gerhardt

Christina Gerhardt is Associate Professor and Founder of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, and Senior Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. Previously, she was the Barron Professor in the Environment and the Humanities at at Princeton University. She has been awarded fellowships by the Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Newberry Library and the Rachel Carson Center. She has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, the Free University Berlin, Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley, where she taught previously.

She is also an environmental journalist and has been published (under "Tina Gerhardt") in Grist.org, The American Prospect, The Nation, The Progressive, Sierra and the Washington Monthly. Her most recent book is Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean published by University of California Press.

About Zina Detetsky

Zina Deretsky is a science and medical illustrator trained at Yale and Johns Hopkins University. She has worked for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and at and with the California Academy of Sciences, the Peabody Museum and the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Her work has been published by Science, Nature, Discover, Astronomy, BBC, MSNBC and the Washington Post among other books and publications.
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