Field Notes on Science and Nature
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-05757-9 (ISBN)
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. John James Audubon’s Birds of America, published in 1838, was one. Roger Tory Peterson’s 1934 Field Guide to the Birds was another. 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.
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. O. Wilson’s view? Recording observations in the field is an indispensable scientific skill, but researchers are not generally willing to share their personal records with others. Here, for the first time, are reproductions of actual pages from notebooks. And in essays abounding with fascinating anecdotes, the authors reflect on the contexts in which the notes were taken.
Covering disciplines as diverse as ornithology, entomology, ecology, paleontology, anthropology, botany, and animal behavior, Field Notes offers specific examples that professional naturalists can emulate to fine-tune their own field methods, along with practical advice that amateur naturalists and students can use to document their adventures.
Michael R. Canfield is Lecturer on Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Edward O. Wilson was Pellegrino University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Bernd Heinrich is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Vermont. He has written several memoirs of his life in science and nature, including One Man’s Owl, Ravens in Winter, and A Year in the Maine Woods, which won the 1995 Rutstrum Authors’ Award for Literary Excellence. Karen L. 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. He also heads the Arthropod Diversity Lab at Griffith University and the Biodiversity Research theme of the Centre of Innovative Conservation Strategies.
Contents Foreword Edward O. Wilson Introduction Michael R. Canfield 1. The Pleasure of Observing George B. Schaller 2. Untangling the Bank Bernd Heinrich 3. One and a Half Cheers for Listmaking Kenn Kaufman 4. A Reflection of the Truth Roger Kitching 5. Linking Researchers across Generations Anna K. Behrensmeyer 6. The Spoken and the Unspoken Karen L. Kramer 7. In the Eye of the Beholder Jonathan Kingdon 8. Why Sketch? Jenny Keller 9. The Evolution and Fate of Botanical Field Books James L. Reveal 10. Note-Taking for Pencilophobes Piotr Naskrecki 11. Letters to the Future John D. Perrine and James L. Patton 12. Why Keep a Field Notebook? Erick Greene Notes Contributors Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.6.2011 |
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| Co-Autor | George B. Schaller, Bernd Heinrich, Kenn Kaufman |
| Vorwort | Edward O. Wilson |
| Zusatzinfo | 87 color illustrations, 43 halftones |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge, Mass |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie | |
| Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-674-05757-0 / 0674057570 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-05757-9 / 9780674057579 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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