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Chasing Lakes

Love, Science, and the Secrets of the Arctic

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An aquatic ecologist and permafrost scientist recalls her captivating adventures across the Arctic studying climate change, her quest to find belonging and family, and her journey of faith in a world of science in this poignant, eye-opening, and hopeful memoir in the spirit of Lab Girl, Educated, and Finding the Mother Tree.

Katey Walter Anthony’s enchantment with lakes began when she was growing up amid the Sierra Nevada mountains. Today, her love for these bodies of water have taken her to the deepest reaches of Alaska and Siberia, where she is undertaking pioneering research on methane emissions. Chasing Lakes is her story: one-part adventure—complete with shipwrecks and treacherous treks through Arctic storms by helicopter, snowmobile, and foot to measure greenhouse gases—part coming-of-age tale, as she searches for belonging in the wake of a broken childhood, and part spiritual quest to find a wholeness science cannot fill.

Somewhere between the remote, frozen landscapes of Siberia and her rough cabin in Alaska, she discovers her spiritual and emotional home when she meets Peter, a bright and humble Minnesota farmer who reinvigorates her faith and helps ground her. Yet finding love and fulfillment brings its own challenges. The closer she gets to having the family she’s always wanted, the further she’s pushed from the important field work that is her passion.

Chasing Lakes is a chronicle of a woman seeking truth, adventure, scientific discovery, family, love, and grace. Both an eye-opening look from the frontlines of the climate crisis and an intimate portrait of a brilliant scientist, Chasing Lakes is memoir writing at its finest: beautiful, complex, revelatory, and moving.

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      April 20, 2022
      National Geographic Adventurer of the Year Anthony, an Alaskan ecologist and biogeochemist, has been traveling for years to Russia to study the bubbles of methane released by thawing permafrost. As a scientist on the forefront of global warming research, the author has a keen awareness of the importance of her work, and her enthusiasm for it is obvious. She chooses to move beyond this review of her years in the field, however, in chapters written in the vein of memoir, reflecting on her parents' broken marriage, her turbulent relationship with her mother, and her long-distance relationship with a boy she met as a teenage foreign exchange student. The narrative takes yet another turn when Anthony recounts her religious awakening and details her ardent embrace of Christianity. The science Anthony describes is complex and important, and the shift in subject matter from lake research to family conflict to biblical verses is jarring. Still, some readers may appreciate her combining religion and environmental matters in this mix of professional and personal accounting.

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