In the Path of Lewis and Clark: Traveling the Missouri

Lourie, Peter

Children's Books

Silver Burdett Pr

Describes the author's trip up the Missouri River by canoe and motorboat and compares it to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

History

Manatees are docile, large sea mammals who are eaten in some parts of the world, feared in others, and adored in still others. But human encroachment, disease, environmental hazards, and being hunted, among many other issues, are causing their numbers to decline. In Manatee Scientists, readers meet three scientists working very hard in three different parts of the world to save the manatee. Get an eye-opening, close-up view of their far-flung expeditions to Brazil, Senegal, and Florida in this beautifully photographed addition to the paperback collection of Scientist in the Field books.

The Manatee Scientists: Saving Vulnerable Species (Scientists in the Field)

Animals

Clarion Books

It is springtime in Alaska, and the U.S. Geological Survey team is gearing up for polar bear capturing. The scientists locate bears from a helicopter, tranquilize them, give them tattoo ID numbers and tags, and collect data such as height, weight, and body fat measurements and samples such as blood, hair, feces, and even teeth. For more than forty-five years, scientists have been capturing bears in order to get information. What has this information been telling scientists about polar bears and our changing global climate? Find out in this fascinating entry in the Scientists in the Field series!

The Polar Bear Scientists (Scientists in the Field)

Teen & Young Adult

Ramer, Susan

Social Issues

It's late April in Barrow, Alaska, which is about as far north in Alaska as you can get. The call comes in over the two-way radio - a crew has caught the first whale of the spring whaling season. Men, women, and teenagers jump on snow machines and drive out onto the ice to help harvest the whale, a tradition the Inupiaq Eskimos on Alaska's North Slope have followed for over two thousand years. John Craighead George, or Craig as he's called, heads out too. He is an Arctic whale scientist, and out on the ice with the whales and the whalers is just one of the places where an Arctic whale scientist works. He and his colleagues have an agreement with the Inupiat to study these whales, bowheads. He has studied them for nearly thirty years and the mysteries of these large creatures never fail to amaze him.
This installment in the Scientists in the Field series takes readers along with Craig, his wife, their colleages, and the Inupiat people as they go out on the ice and harvest whales. Lourie also details the happenings in Craig's ramshackle lab where he studies various organs and body parts, takes careful measurements, and crunches numbers. This is a real profile of what it is like to be a scientist living where he works, harvesting his own subjects, and using information passed down from generations of Eskimo culture to help him as he becomes the world's leading expert on bowhead whales. Craig George is the son of legendary children's author Jean Craighead George, and it is easy to see that Craig grew up in a household where nature and human interaction went hand in hand. Author Pete Lourie's stunning photographs will transport readers to the top of the world, where the days and nights are long, the people respectful, and the whales are at the center of it all.

Whaling Season: A Year in the Life of an Arctic Whale Scientist (Scientists in the Field Series)

In The Manatee Scientists, John Reynolds does an aerial count of manatees from the Florida sky; Lucy Keith spends a weekend rescuing manatees trapped in a dam in Senegal; and Fernando Rosas takes the author on an Amazonian boat trip, looking for a young manatee he released back into the wild, with emotional results. These scientists are working hard to save manatees: docile, large sea mammals who are eaten in some parts of the world, feared in others, and adored in still others. But factors such as human encroachment, disease, environmental hazards, and being hunted are causing their numbers to decline: they are an endangered species, in need of help.

The Manatee Scientists: Saving Vulnerable Species (Scientists in the Field Series)

Follow scientists as they scan the Alaskan wilderness for these magnificent creatures.It is springtime on the North Slope of Alaska, and the U.S. Geological Survey team—the polar bear biologists Kristin Simac and Mike Lockhart—is gearing up for polar bear capturing. During a capture, all information is collected on the sea ice. The scientists locate bears from a helicopter, tranquilize them, give them tattoo ID numbers and tags, and collect data such as height, weight, and body fat measurements and samples such as blood, hair, feces, and even teeth. All this information goes into a large database studied by scientists such as Drs. Steven Amstrup and George Durner, the former and current leaders of the Polar Bear Research Project. For more than forty-five years, scientists have been capturing bears in order to get information. What has this information been telling scientists about polar bears and global warming?

Rio Grande: From the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico

Science, Nature & How It Works

Demco Media

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Profiles the work of John Craighead George, an Arctic whale scientist, as he studies the bowhead whale and works with the indigenous people of Alaska to better understand the history of the animal.

Whaling Season: A Year In The Life Of An Arctic Whale Scientist (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Turtleback Books

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In the Path of Lewis and Clark: Traveling the Missouri

In the Path of Lewis and Clark: Traveling the Missouri

In the Path of Lewis and Clark: Traveling the Missouri

The Manatee Scientists: Saving Vulnerable Species (Scientists in the Field)

The Polar Bear Scientists (Scientists in the Field)

Whaling Season: A Year in the Life of an Arctic Whale Scientist (Scientists in the Field Series)

The Manatee Scientists: Saving Vulnerable Species (Scientists in the Field Series)

The Polar Bear Scientists (Scientists in the Field)

Rio Grande: From the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico

Whaling Season: A Year In The Life Of An Arctic Whale Scientist (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)