Background
David Lawrence was born on November 12, 1961, in Westover, Maryland. He is the son of George Marion, a journalist, and Kathleen Marie Lee, a secretary, Lawrence.
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David Lawrence studied at Louisiana State University. He got a Bachelor of Science.
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David Lawrence studied at the University of Oklahoma.
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David Lawrence studied at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport.
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David Lawrence studied at George Mason University. He got a Master of Science.
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David Lawrence studied at Columbia University. He got a Master of Science.
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David Lawrence studied at the University of Virginia.
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David Lawrence studied at Oak Terrace Junior High School.
(Upheaval from the Abyss spans a 130-year period, beginnin...)
Upheaval from the Abyss spans a 130-year period, beginning with the early, backbreaking efforts to map the depths during the age of sail; continuing with improvements in research methods spurred by maritime disaster and war, and culminating in the publication of the first map of the world’s ocean floor in 1977.
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David Lawrence was born on November 12, 1961, in Westover, Maryland. He is the son of George Marion, a journalist, and Kathleen Marie Lee, a secretary, Lawrence.
David Lawrence student at Oak Terrace Junior High School in Shreveport. He also graduated from the Louisiana State University, where he got the Bachelor of Science with cum laude in biology in 1983. Besides, Lawrence studied at the University of Oklahoma. There he took postgraduate studies in geography in 1983-1985. David Lawrence studied at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport in 1986-1987, earned the Master of Science in geographic and cartographic sciences in 1991 from George Mason University and in journalism in 1998 from Columbia University. Additionally, Lawrence attended the University of Virginia and enrolled in the Doctor of Philosophy program in environmental sciences in 1991.
David Lawrence knew that he wanted to be a scientist early on. The call to journalism came much later. As a teenager, he had grandiose dreams of becoming a "famous" writer, but, despite displaying what family, friends, and teachers alleged to be signs of skill with the written word, he did not incline to do the work necessary to realize the dreams. Lawrence did not plan to follow my father into a newsroom. Circumstances, and probably some latent desire, kept him surrounded by newsies, and later, he realized that he could combine science and journalism into a coherent and satisfying professional life.
Lawrence has taught biology, geography, and related subjects at several colleges in Richmond. He also worked as a research assistant at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, which was the original home of the earth science revolution that overturned the prevailing scientific ideas about the nature of the creation, destruction, and rearrangement of the earth's surface. The researchers there put forth great effort to map the ocean floor and to prove the theory of plate tectonics. Besides, Lawrence was a science writer/editor/photographer for the Sea Education Association, North Atlantic Expedition in 2010. He spent more than 30 days at sea, sailed more than 3,000 nautical miles: east from Bermuda, across the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and back. During the expedition, Lawrence wrote and published more than 33,000 words and took more than 5,000 photos.
As a writer, Lawrence combined his interests in biology, geography, journalism, and environmental sciences to produce his 284-page book, Upheaval from the Abyss: Ocean Floor Mapping and the Earth Science Revolution. He writes about the lives of those scientists who continued Wegener's work, including Maurice "Doc" Ewing, Bruce Heezen, and Marie Tharp. Ewing, the founder of the Lamont Geological Observatory, which later became the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, was the man whose big collection of data ultimately "clinched the scientific case for continental drift and plate tectonics." Heezen was a promising geology graduate who accepted Ewing's offer to become a research assistant with "oceanic adventure instead of pay." Tharp, whose drafting skills were recognized by Ewing, devoted "forty years of her life to preparing maps of the world's ocean floor." The book begins with a study of Alfred Wegener, the pioneer of the continental drift theory. He published a paper in 1912 that demonstrates how fossils on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are remarkably similar. After Wegener's death, his labor was derided and nearly discarded until earth scientists began their revolutionary work in the late 1940s.
In addition to his book, David Lawrence's writings have appeared in two anthologies The Science of Dune: An Unauthorized Exploration into the Real Science Behind Frank Herbert's Fictional Universe and The Science of Michael Crichton: An Unauthorized Exploration into the Real Science Behind the Fictional Worlds of Michael Crichton, and the magazines Geotimes (now Earth), The Lancet, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Mercator's World, and Vegetarian Times. He also has written for encyclopedias and references works such as The History of Cartography. Volume 6: Cartography in the Twentieth Century, the World History Encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia of the Developing World, the Encyclopedia of Genetics, the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Magill's Encyclopedia of Science: Plant Life, Magill's Medical Guide, and the World History Encyclopedia.
Lawrence has spent almost three decades working for newspapers such as The Daily Progress, The Daily Press, The Miami Herald, The Daily Record, The Progress-Index, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Times, The Tallahassee Democrat, and The Virginian-Pilot. Some of his most challenging writing work has been for the radio programs Our Ocean World and MicrobeWorld.
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2002Despite the scientific advances of the last few centuries, the universe remains mysterious. How David Lawrence said, he "cannot resist the urge to solve a mystery." Thus, he was called into a scientific career early in his life, but answering questions for myself was not enough. Lawrence wanted to share his fascination with our improbable world first, as a teacher, and then as a journalist.
Quotations: "I am a visual writer. I have to see something to write about it. I think the visual approach is evident in Upheaval from the Abyss, as well as in several of my other writings. What I hoped to accomplish with the book is to tell the human side of the story, to put the reader in the field or at sea alongside the scientists whose lives I chronicle. The reason, hypotheses, and experiment are excellent topics for study in themselves. However, science, as I know from personal experience, is and always will be an endeavor carried out by flesh-and-blood beings."
David Lawrence married Alison Sinclair on October 13, 1991. They have one son and one daughter.