Vanishing shores: Coastal geologist issues urgent call to save the Gulf Coast

For John B. Anderson, the Gulf Coast is personal. The W. Maurice Ewing Professor Emeritus of Oceanography at Rice University spent his early years on Alabama's Fort Morgan Peninsula, where his father was a party boat fisherman. That lifelong connection to the region, combined with a decades-long scientific career, has culminated in his newest and most urgent book: "Gulf Coast Demise? Climate Change, Conservation and Saving the American Sea."

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