{"id":5237,"date":"2023-12-09T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=5237"},"modified":"2023-12-09T20:42:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T04:42:30","slug":"5237","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2023\/12\/09\/5237\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Rush &#8211; &#8220;The Quickening&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bbCodeBlock-content\">\n<div class=\"bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent \">October 23, 2023<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"detailCover0\" class=\"detail_cover_art\" title=\"Cover image for The Quickening\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.od-cdn.com\/ImageType-100\/6852-1\/{BE30D10B-233E-4453-82FA-664A1E56F04F}IMG100.JPG\" alt=\"Cover image for The Quickening\" width=\"207\" height=\"276\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent \">I just read Elizabeth Rush&#8217;s new book &#8220;The Quickening&#8221; in which she reports on a research cruise to Thwaites Glacier in 2018\/19. Seems the first time the thinning sea ice would let ships get anywhere close was in 2017-2020 so there was some very good data gathered in those years. We are possibly seeing this work and its findings making way into papers now. An excellent book with a great ship board narrative and good telling of the hard work in the Amundsen.<\/div>\n<div class=\"bbCodeBlock-expandContent js-expandContent \">Also, a much needed feminine perspective on scientific field work and the challenges of breaking barriers in the Antarctic.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rush also delves into the dilemma of wanting a child and rearing it in the era of climate disasters. She tells a good story there and weaves it into the discussions she had with other female scientists, their family lives and how they see the future unfolding. I reviewed her book &#8220;Rising&#8221; here a few months ago, and as in that book, she writes well and tells a good story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 23, 2023 I just read Elizabeth Rush&#8217;s new book &#8220;The Quickening&#8221; in which she reports on a research cruise to Thwaites Glacier in 2018\/19. Seems the first time the thinning sea ice would let ships get anywhere close was in 2017-2020 so there was some very good data gathered in those years. We are &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2023\/12\/09\/5237\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,3061,6,7,8,13,15,16,3279,17,4604],"tags":[4620,4484,4621,4387,4622,4478,2164,4619,4617,4618],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-5237","6":"format-standard","7":"category-climate-change","8":"category-content","9":"category-environment","10":"category-ethical-and-green-living","11":"category-faits-divers","12":"category-feminism","13":"category-politics","14":"category-science","15":"category-sea-stories","16":"category-the-anthropocene","17":"category-thinking-about","18":"category-what-i-read","19":"post_tag-amundsen-sea","20":"post_tag-antarctic","21":"post_tag-climate-disasters","22":"post_tag-elizabeth-rush","23":"post_tag-nathaniel-b-palmer","24":"post_tag-sea-ice","25":"post_tag-sea-level-rise","26":"post_tag-ship-board-narrative","27":"post_tag-the-quickening","28":"post_tag-thwaites-glacier"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5240,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions\/5240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}