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

Burns, Loree Griffin; Harasimowicz, Ellen

 
9780805095173: Citizen Scientists: Be a Part of Scientific Discovery from Your Own Backyard

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.

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About the Author

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 also lives in Massachusetts and is a freelance photojournalist whose work has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, and Scientific American.

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9780805090628: Citizen Scientists: Be a Part of Scientific Discovery from Your Own Backyard

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ISBN 10:  0805090622 ISBN 13:  9780805090628
Publisher: Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, 2012
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