Field Notes on Science & Nature
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (729 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674057570 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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O. How does such insight into nature develop? Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their native habitat, Field Notes on Science and Nature allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions. Here, for the first time, are reproductions of actual pages from notebooks. What did George Schaller note when studying the lions of the Serengeti? What lists did Kenn Kaufman keep during his 1973 “big year”? How does Piotr Naskrecki use relational databases and electronic field notes? In what way is Bernd Heinrich’s approach “truly Thoreauvian,” in E. John James Audubon’s Birds of America, published in 1838, was one. Once in a great while, as the New York Times noted recently, a naturalist writes a book that changes the way people look at the living world. Wilson’s view? Recording observations in the field is an indispensable scientific skill, but researchers are
Kramer is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Utah.Piotr Naskrecki is an Associate in Entomology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.Roger Kitching is the chair of ecology at the Griffith School of Environment. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson
"Pure Inspiration" according to John Gruber. For every one of us who has ever conducted field research or just walked into the forest, through the desert, or along the beach, this book is a delight and a treasure. A combination of instruction and inspiration, it makes the practice of keeping field notes feel like one of the most worthwhile arts, a manner of interacting as fully as possible with what we discover. a GORGEOUS Book! This book is a total delight! A colleague suggested it to me & as soon as i got my copy I KNEW I had to get extras for deserving students. this is a lovely mixture of Natural History observation and art covering an impressive range of people, places and periods. The book is jam-packed with ideas and suggestione for better observations, better note-taking, eyes for de. Inspiring and enriching essays on the art of taking field notes Secluded Path I ordered this book after reading a review of it that appeared recently in Nature (16 june 2011) and literally devoured it. It is mostly written by (and for) biologists and naturalists but as an Earth scientist I do not feel far away from them. The book is a collection of essays by different authors and, understandably, there is a wide variety of styles, opinions and
At its base this book is about science, but it's also about the liveliness of the human mind practicing any craft, and about the kinetic, surprising places from which any human knowledge springs. Few of us have the artistic skills of Jonathan Kingdon or Jenny Keller, scientist-illustrators whose drawings alone make this book worth buying. Canfield, more than a dozen biologists, anthropologists, geologists and illustrators explore these questions as they open up and dissect their journals, and a few of their forebears' as wellBoth Bernd Heinrich and Roger Kitching started with little besides notebooks; both have enjoyed rich scientific careers. Others use pictures more than words. But even the sketchiest sketch can call to mind a place or organism in a way no words canI will alter my own note-taking after reading this set of essays. (Jennie Erin Smith Wall Street Journal 2011-11-19) . Although few