Life Under Ice 2nd edition: Exploring Antarctic Seas

About Mary M. Cerullo

Mary Cerullo describes herself as a science interpreter. She works with scientists and ocean advocates to explain scientific research and environmental issues to the public with the goal of motivating others to protect the ocean. At times she has literally immersed herself in her work diving among sharks in the Bahamas studying dolphin behavior at the Dolphin Research Center in Florida and exploring the connection between volcanoes and the ocean on the island of Hawaii. Mary has written more than twenty award-winning books about the ocean for children. She has worked with kids teachers and other ocean lovers for more than forty years from her first job at the New England Aquarium in Boston to two decades with Friends of Casco Bay an environmental advocacy organization in South Portland Maine. Bill Curtsinger like many explorers before him first traveled to Antarctica as a young sailor.  He was in the Navy Combat Camera Group assigned to photograph the work of National Science Foundation researchers.  In the years since Bill's photography has appeared in numerous books and magazines including National Geographic Life Time Newsweek Outside Natural History and Smithsonian.