Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (507 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1615193987 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Fortunately for us, Mary Ellen Hannibal locates some luminous souls who, by the light of their knowledge and determination, can lead us out of these dark times for life on Earth.”—Carl Safina, author of Beyond Words; What Animals Think and Feel “What an extraordinary book! Mary Ellen Hannibal weaves together natural history, cutting-edge technology, and her own adventures into a story that is certain to inspire.”—Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist “An informative, emotional, and fascinating account of a personal journey to ecological citizen science.”—Muki Haklay, co-director of Extreme Citizen Science, University College London “One of Hannibal’s themes in this ambitious new book is the ‘double narrative,’ or the contradiction between what we tell ourselves we are doing every day and what
Hannibal, an award-winning writer and emerging emissary from scientists to the public, sets out to become a citizen scientist herself. Combining research and memoir in impassioned prose, Citizen Scientist is a literary event, a blueprint for action, and the story of how one woman rescues herself from an odyssey of loss—with a new kind of science.. In search of vanishing species, she wades into tide pools, follows hawks, and scours mountains. The data she collects will help environmental research—but her most precious discovery might be her fellow citizen scientists: a heroic cast of volunteers devoting long hours to helping scientists measure—and even slow—today’s unprecedented mass extinction. Citizen science might just be our last, best chance to fight extinction. Her personal loss only fuels her quest to bear witness to life, and so she ultimately returns her gaze to the wealth of species still left to fight for. A consummate reporter, Hannibal digs into the origins of the tech-savvy citizen science movement—tracing it back through centuries of amateur observation by writers and naturalists. Prompted by her novelist father’s sudden death, she also examines her own past and discovers a
encore! john farnsworth By way of full disclosure, I am acquainted with the author, being a fellow citizen scientist involved with the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory. While the author and I do not work on the same Hawkwatch team, we have met on a few occasions.I worried through the first fifty or so pages that the book might b. Chris Carlsson said Beautiful writing, great insight, a page turner and very illuminating and meditative at the same time!. Mary Ellen Hannibal’s book Citizen Scientist goes much further than its title would suggest, including an excellent history of the San Francisco-based Academy of Science, and a great deal of rumination on earlier projects that featured non-scientists doing science, notably the Ed Ricketts and John. "Fascinating storytelling, beautiful writing, new insights" according to cms. As someone who has been participating in citizen science for the past four years and environmental science for over 20 years, I was eager to read Mary Ellen Hannibal's new book, Citizen Scientist. I know Mary Ellen's writing from Spine of the Continent and Bay Nature Magazine and of her intellect and th