Who on Earth Is Sylvia Earle?: Undersea Explorer of the Ocean (Scientists Saving the Earth)

Named TIME magazine's first "hero for the planet", Sylvia Alice Earle is a world-renown oceanographer. She was chief scientist for the U.S. NOAA from 1990-1992. In this biography, author Susan Reichard paints the life and work of Dr. Earle who expanded people's awarness of the importance of conserving our oceans and what we take out of them, demonstrating the interdependence of land and sea.