Helen regularly presents BBC programmes on physics, the ocean and the atmosphere – recent series include Colour: The Spectrum of Science, Orbit, Operation Iceberg, Super Senses, Dara O’Briain’s Science Club, as well as programmes on bubbles, the sun and our weather. By understanding how the ocean works, and its essential role in our global system, we can learn how to protect our blue machine. Some of the stories that she uses to illustrate the text are superb, like the ones dealing with underwater acoustic communicaton and how this relates to whales. I don’t remember when I have read a book that has been such a delight to read from start to finish, but that also, when I have come to the end, had totally altered my appreciation of the workings of our whole planet.

From vast currents and tides to the smallest creatures that inhabit our oceans she reveals the spellbinding wonder of the oceans. From the ancient Polynesians who navigated the Pacific by reading the waves to permanent residents of the deep such as the Greenland shark that can live for hundreds of years, she explains the vast currents, invisible ocean walls and underwater waterfalls that all have their place in the ocean’s complex, interlinked system. Gaia Vince, science journalist, broadcaster and author of Nomad Century All of the Earth's ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine.Obviously, this book highlights the impact that humans have had on the oceans and how they are deteriorating. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University College London. As a physicist she studies the bubbles underneath breaking waves in the open ocean to understand their effects on weather and climate. All of the Earth’s ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight – a blue machine.

For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. In The Blue Machine, physicist and oceanographer Helen Czerski illustrates the mechanisms behind this defining feature of our planet, voyaging from the depths of the ocean floor to tropical coral reefs, estuaries that feed into shallow coastal seas, and Arctic ice floes. While not visible to the naked eye this observation is not unexpected, chiming with land surveys showing increased growth in desert margins. A beautifully written guide to the seas reveals the hidden complexity of their role in moving energy around the Earth.Helen Czerski is a consummate storyteller…In places you’ll drift serenely among corals or dense kelp forests, in others you’ll ride Atlantic breakers or fear for your life in a tropical storm…When you resurface, you will be bursting with enthusiasm and wonder and you’ll understand how the ocean works and more besides. There seems to be no overall theme so the reader will probably come away remembering only some of the information. She is also a columnist for Focus magazine, shortlisted for PPA columnist of the year in 2014, and has written numerous articles for national newspapers. The author includes huge amounts of information from the way the ocean moves, to the different depths and strata, she mentions how people have learnt to navigate and how humans have impacted it. I thought this book was so well laid out and explained and I definitely closed the book at the end knowing I knew more now than I did before.