Reviews

“An oceanographer and a science writer collaborate on this series of stories that focuses as much on humans as they do on the watery depths. The ocean is the ‘main character but it needs a voice,’ and the stories come from scientists, Indigenous peoples, shellfish farmers, fisheries workers, coastal community members, and others who know the oceans best. Well written, thoroughly researched and documented, this compilation would enhance any collection serving adult readers.”

Choice Reviews, Summer 2024

“Tessa Hill and Eric Simons’s At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans (Columbia University Press) is an antidote to indifference, a call to deepened attention. Combines popular-science sketches of the history and findings of oceanography with reflections on a change of ethos within the discipline over roughly the past quarter century. From interviews with oceanographers and narrative presentation of their findings, the authors convey something of the passionate attention that goes into the detailed understanding of a given aquatic ecosystem.”

Inside Higher Ed, 04/19/2024

“At Every Depth pulls us on underwater time-lines from rocky shore surveys to diminishing riches on coral reefs to the once trackless deep sea and chronicles for every major habitat in the oceans, the greatest discoveries and changes. “The ocean cannot tell its own story...” so the riveting stories of indigenous peoples, scientists and explorers who chart inroads, solutions, and forecasts, are brilliant for all students of the oceans from college classrooms to non-experts.”

Drew Harvell, author of Ocean Outbreak: Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease and A Sea of Glass: Searching for the Blaschka’s Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk

“With her expansive knowledge of our oceans and our warming world, Hill has teamed up with science writer and educator Eric Simons to produce At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans, a book that surprised me with its fresh take on the effects that humans are having on the great bodies of water that cover our planet. This book is unique. [It] is a welcome addition to the conversation on climate change, pollution, plastics, and the changes we have brought to the oceans and to ourselves.”

Paul Hormick, The Green Dispatch

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“An incisive look at a world in crisis. This troubling assessment of how humans are devastating the world’s oceans hits home.”

Publisher’s Weekly, 11/28/2023

“This book is for those with an interest in our ocean, our planet, and the changes we are rapidly facing. It reads much more like a story than any sort of scientific text, thanks to its people-focused approach, doubling down on why a holistic method is vital for our planetary problems…

Hill and Simons have balanced the hard truths of ocean climate science with overwhelming hope, and even courage. The book ends as it begins, by emphasizing the importance of listening and caring, and in doing so, we can create a new world of scientists, who do not operate in isolation and who listen to all the voices on our “little blue planet.”

Aimee Mook, National Maritime Museum, H-Net Reviews for Humanities and Social Sciences

“This book is brilliant. It was easy to read. It was easy to get lost in the flow. It was also terrifying. The way that everything is connected. The kelp forests which I never really think about having such a large impact on the world is something I am still trying to wrap my head around. It is incredibly easy to think of things as parts and not as a whole.”

Isiah Roby, MI Reviews

“The greatest strength of At Every Depth is its storytelling, with tales of scientific investigation and in exploring indigenous peoples' connection to the sea and how ocean changes lead to shifts in tradition and communities. The authors effectively provide information and inspire with emotion.”

Ellen Prager, author of Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter

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