Amazon.com description: Product Description: Lizard Island, located at the northern end of the reef system, is a temporary home for researchers who are working to increase our knowledge of reefs and, hopefully, find ways to preserve them. In this book, you will meet some of these dedicated individuals and have an opportunity to see the Great Barrier Reef through their eyes. You will see firsthand that as scientists learn more about reef ecosystems, they are constantly amazed by the diversity and fragility of the organisms that depend on coral. We live on land, so it may seem that we have little impact on ocean life. But, LIZARD ISLAND: SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS ON AUSTRALIA'S GREAT BARRIER REEF clearly shows how human activities are directly linked to the overall health of the world's coral reefs and other ocean ecosystems.