Our Vanishing Glaciers: The Snows of Yesteryear and the Future Climate of the Mountain West by Robert Williams Sandford (Rocky Mountain Books) has won the 2017 Lane Anderson Adult Readers Award for Science Writing, announced on November 12, 2018.
Robert Williams Sandford is one of the most respected experts in water and water-associated climate science. Our Vanishing Glaciers features stunning photography collected over the past four decades to explain and illustrate why water is such a unique substance and how it makes life on this planet possible. Focusing on the Columbia Icefield, the largest and most accessible mass of ice straddling the Continental Divide in western North America, this large-format, fully illustrated coffee table book graphically illustrates the projected rate of glacier recession in the mountain West.
“There has probably never been a time in history when making science understandable to a vastly diverse public has been more important,” said Sandford to the Quill & Quire. “We are also at a bottleneck in the evolutionary history of our species where failing to understand and act appropriately on what we know could have devastating impacts on future generations and potentially catastrophic effects on Earth system function for the rest of time.”
The Lane Anderson Awards honour the very best science writing in Canada today, both in the adult and young reader categories. The winner in each category receives $10,000.