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• Title:A sea of glass : searching for the Blaschkas' fragile legacy in an ocean at risk / Drew Harvell ; foreword by Harry W. Greene.
  
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• Variant Title:Searching for the Blaschkas' fragile legacy in an ocean at risk
  
• Author/Creator:Harvell, C. Drew, 1954- author.
  
• Published/Created:Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QH91.8.B6 H37 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Blaschka, Leopold, 1822-1895.
  Blaschka, Rudolf, 1857-1939.
  Marine biodiversity conservation.
  Marine invertebrates.
  Marine invertebrates--Models.
  Glass animals.
  
• Genre/Form: Catalogs.
  
• Description:xi, 215 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Organisms and environments ; 13.
  
• Summary:"From diving for dangerous jellyfish in the Mediterranean to searching for harpoon-backed sea slugs in Southeast Asia, A Sea of Glass recounts the author's quest to document the living invertebrates that inspired history's greatest father-son glassmaking team to spin their likenesses into glass more than 160 years ago. The story of these artists, Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, whose menagerie of unusual marine creatures was packed away for decades in a Cornell University storage unit, provides a time capsule of life in earlier oceans untouched by climate change and human impacts. A Sea of Glass takes readers into a world rarely glimpsed, introducing the surprising and unusual biology of some of the most ancient animals on the tree of life. On the way, we glimpse a century of change in our ocean ecosystems and learn which of the Blaschkas's living counterparts are indeed as fragile as glass"--Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780520285682 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  0520285689 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  9780520961111 electronic book
  0520961110 electronic book
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
  Quest for the Living Blaschka Animals
  2. Anemones and Corals
  Rooted Lives of At-Risk Animals
  3. Jellyfish
  Rise of the Medusa
  4. Worms
  Ecosystem Engineers Undercover
  5. Sea Slugs
  Fire Stealers of the Deep
  6. Octopus and Squid
  Shape-Shifters under Pressure
  7. Sea Stars
  Keystone Species in Glass
  8. Voyage of our Blaschka biodiversity.