Documentary drawings of a scientific expedition to the Arctic<\/p>\n
Climate changes in the Arctic currently take place at an unprecedented pace and intensity. An international team of climate researchers undertook an expedition to Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean to understand the causes and effects of the drastic Arctic climate changes. The expedition is part of the ongoing research project \u201cArctic Amplification: Climate relevant atmospheric and surface processes, and feedback mechanisms (AC)\u00b3\u201c.<\/p>\n
Kerstin Heymach accompanied the scientists as part of the team to Longyearbyen and Ny-\u00c5lesund at Spitsbergen in May and June 2017. In the tradition of earlier expedition drawers, her pastels, drawings, sketches and interviews illustrate the difficult work of the researchers. By Heymach\u2019s reports you get the feeling: Team spirit and enthusiasm, responsibility, and passion are preconditions for successful scientific work. The time of separated, isolated science is long gone, cooperation is a major prerequisite for success and necessarily needed to advance. The ongoing climate changes are unusual and alarming.<\/p>\n
The Arctic Ocean could be ice free by the mid of this century if the warming continues at the current pace. The ice-albedo effect, i. e. \u201cArctic Amplification\u201d, would be one of the involved processes. The ice melts, dark water or land comes to the surface, reflects less sunlight, absorbs more radiation: a self amplifying mechanism. What is the role of water vapor, aerosol particles and clouds or the changed heat transport from the mid-latitudes to the Arctic? What is man-made, what is not? These are the questions to which the scientists try to find answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Illustrator Kerstin Heymach took pencils and crayons and accompanied climate researchers to the arctic circle. She captured their work in a slow method with a rich tradition. The resulting documentation holds its own in an age of global torrents of pictures and provides highly topical scientific findings and insights into the research through interviews with the scientists.<\/p>\n
Kerstin Heymach<\/strong> 21 \u00d7 27 cm
\nManfred Wendisch<\/strong>
\nAnnette Rinke<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n176 pages
\n74 pastels, drawings, sketches
\nEnglish, German
\nHardcover,\u2009 bound in linen,
\n\u201eFrench Fold\u201c-jacket
\nISBN 978-3-903101-42-5
\nDecember 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3234,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[38,39],"product_tag":[556,560,565,543,462],"class_list":{"0":"post-3277","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-nature","7":"product_cat-sciences","8":"product_tag-climate-change","9":"product_tag-nature","10":"product_tag-reportage-en","11":"product_tag-research","12":"product_tag-science","13":"pa_buchautor-annette-rinke-en","14":"pa_buchautor-kerstin-heymach-en","15":"pa_buchautor-manfred-wendisch-en","17":"first","18":"instock","19":"shipping-taxable","20":"purchasable","21":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n