Citizen Scientists: Be a Part of Scientific Discovery from Your Own Backyard

Ellen Harasimowicz Loree Griffin Burns

ISBN 10: 0805095179 / ISBN 13: 9780805095173

Published by Henry Holt & Company, 2012

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pp. 80.

Seller Inventory # 2650978914

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Citizen Scientists: Be a Part of Scientific Discovery from Your Own Backyard
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805095179
• ISBN 13: 9780805095173
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Anyone can get involved in gathering data for ongoing, actual scientific studies such as the Audubon Bird Count and FrogWatch USA. Just get out into a field, urban park, or your own backyard. You can put your nose to a monarch pupa or listen for raucous frog calls. You can tally woodpeckers or sweep the grass for ladybugs. This book, full of engaging photos and useful tips, will show you how.

About the Authors

Loree Griffin Burns, PhD., is the author of The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe and Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion, both ALA Notable books. She lives in Massachusetts.

Ellen Harasimowicz lives in Massachusetts and is a freelance photojournalist whose work has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, and Scientific American. Her photographs also appear in Loree Griffin Burns's books for children, including Citizen Scientists.