Diary of a Citizen Scientist: Chasing Tiger Beetles and Other New Ways of Engaging the World

by Sharman Apt Russell

Book Overview

Winner of the 2015John Burroughs Medal, the 2015 WILLA Award for Best Creative Nonfiction, and finalist for the 2015 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards In the exploding world of citizen science, hundreds of thousands of volunteers are monitoring climate change, tracking bird migrations, finding stardust for NASA, and excavating mastodons. The sheer number of citizen scientists, combined with new technology, has begun to shape how research gets done. Non-professionals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870717529
• ISBN13: 9780870717529
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Oregon State University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"