The New York State Natural History Survey produced a shelf of path-breaking volumes on the geology, paleontology, and biology of what was then the American frontier. This is an authoritative and exhaustive history of one of the most important early scientific organizations in America by a noted historian of science.

New York Natural History Survey, 1836-1842: A Chapter in the History of American Science (Special Publication / Paleontological Research Institution)

Science & Math

Aldrich, Michele L

History & Philosophy

Paleontological Research Institution

Mastodon Paleobiology, Taphonomy, and Paleoenvironment in the Late Pleistocene of New York State: Studies on the Hyde Park, Chemung, and North Java Sites (Palaeontographica Americana, No. 61)

Biological Sciences

Curt Teichert (1905 - 1996) - paleontologist, stratigrapher, editor, mentor, scholar - was a major influence on 20th century Earth science through his research, professional service, and teaching. In these previously unpublished Memoirs, spanning more than 60 years, he relates dramatic accounts of his long and fascinating career, from Arctic fieldwork in the early 1930s, escaping Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, working in the American West and Australian outback, cooperating with Iranian, Pakistani, and Afghan colleagues in the days before terrorism, and the founding of international paleontological societies and the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Born in East Prussia, Teichert worked and lived in all corners of the Earth. In addition to becoming a world authority on fossil cephalopods, he published on topics from Gondwanan geology to fossil reefs, and described more than 280 new species, from plants to crinoids to ichthyosaurs. Through his own words, and those of others, his story is one of exploration, dedication, and love of A Paleontological Life. "Science is man-made ... you cannot fully understand current scientific concepts and theories until you know something of their history and of the men who developed them." - Curt Teichert

A Paleontological Life: The Personal Memoirs of Curt Teichert

The Marcellus Shale - a vast rock formation that holds a huge reservoir of natural gas - is at the center of one of the most controversial natural resources issues of our time. This is primarilybecause of the unconventional method used to extract gas from the shale - slickwater horizontal high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking. Concerns about how widespread use of the practice will affect the natural environment - most especially freshwaters atthe local level and climate at the global level - have thrust geology into the public view in a way seldom otherwise experienced. This book reviews the major science and technology issues around this complex topic, offering impartial, evidence-based, thought-provoking information to help citizens decide what to do.This book is part of the Very Short Guide Series from PRI Publications.

The Science Beneath the Surface: A Very Short Guide to the Marcellus Shale (PRI Special Publication no. 43)

Don Duggan-Haas

Robert M. Ross

Warren D. Allmon

The fossils in the Devonian rocks of New York have attracted the attention of serious and casual collectors for nearly 200 years. Although a large body of literature has been devoted to these fossils, most of this is not readily accessible to the non-professional fossil enthusiast. This volume, combining the best of modern paleontology with the classic illustrations of James Hall, John Clarke, Amadeus Grabau, and Winifred Goldring, fills that need. In all, 408 taxa are covered, spanning the rich taxonomic breadth of New York's Devonian strata."This is a welcome replacement for the ever-popular and out of print Devonian Paleontology of New York (PRI, 1994) by David Linsley. The historical notes on early New York Devonian paleontologists are an interesting read and the section on facies-while short-gives useful background. An aspect that I particularly like is the brief summaries of diagnostic/typical features of each species; these are quite helpful for those who want to dig a bit more deeply into what makes taxa distinctive beyond the gestalt appearance. A great many amateurs, students, and professionals will find this a highly useful sourcebook." - Carlton E. Brett, Professor of Geology, University of Cincinnati

Field Guide to the Devonian Fossils of New York

Karl A. Wilson

Earth Sciences

This book was written for teachers who could benefit from a "teacher-friendly" resource on climate change. Our focus audience is high school Earth science and environmental science teachers, but we expect that a much wider audience will find it useful, including educators of other grade levels, subjects, and contexts, as well as non-teachers who find the approach helpful. Ultimately schools may find it an effective strategy to incorporate climate change across disciplinary boundaries, including all STEM subjects, social studies, and other humanities. Climate change is a scientific issue, but it is also a historical, social, psychological, and economic issue that can only be deeply understood through mathematics, language and art. Like any book about a topic as complex and growing as climate change, this one is just a starting point, thus we have listed sets of resources at the end of each chapter. This book focuses on scientific aspects of climate change: how climate works and why scientists think it's changing, and the science and engineering behind the steps that would mitigate climate change and enable humans to adapt to climate changes that do occur. We focus especially on why scientists think human-induced climate change is happening, yet we do not present the existence of climate change as a debate. While all scientific hypotheses are, in principle, provisional, there is such a substantial set of independent evidence that climate change is happening now, built across decades by thousands of climate scientists internationally, that we treat the broad phenomenon of human-induced climate change as effectively "true." There is, however, scientific uncertainty about countless details such as the rates of change and interactions among components of the climate system; this is the nature of research on all complex systems, and is important to understand as an aspect of scientific practices.

The Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change

Ingrid H. H. Zabel

Benjamin Brown-Steiner

Alexandra F. Moore

Daring to Dig highlights the adventures and research achievements of a dozen women paleontologists, both from the past century and active today. The challenges they faced--both societal and scientific--are explored through a series of colorfully illustrated vignettes, as are their successes in overcoming these challenges. This book shows children that paleontology is a science for everyone. "When I was a little kid, I loved collecting fossils, but I didn't know the names of any women paleontologists to look up to. This cheerful, colorful book solves the problem. It'll introduce kids to a dozen adventuring, dirt-stomping, fossil-finding heroes who just so happen to be women, too." - Rosemary Mosco, science cartoonist and author, www.birdandmoon.com "Daring to Dig presents a colorful exploration into some of the groundbreaking, brilliant, and brave women of American paleontology. Significantly, Daring to Dig explores historical challenges, contextualizes the science, and documents the great diversity of women and fossils that make up the wonderful discipline of paleontology." - Alycia Stigall, Professor of Geological Sciences at Ohio University "All too often, girls come to the mistaken belief that that science is just for men. In Daring to Dig, Beth Stricker and Alana McGillis show us that paleontology is, and has always been, a science for women too. Through a sequence of colorful, beautifully illustrated stories, they offer up a celebration of the remarkable history of female paleontologists in America." - Scott D. Sampson, Ph.D., President &amp; CEO, Science World British Columbia; Host, PBS KIDS Dinosaur Train; Author, You Can Be a Paleontologist! "This fun and fabulous book about a dozen brilliant paleontologists would make Mary Anning proud. I hope that this is just part one of a series because there are a lot more great female paleontologists out there." - Kirk Johnson, Sant Director, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History

Daring to Dig: Adventures of Women in American Paleontology

Beth Stricker

Children's Books

The unique landscape of the Finger Lakes Region-a combination of deep lakes, numerous waterfalls, unusual hills, salt deposits, and gorges-holds a fascination for both its residents and the thousands of annual visitors who make upper New York State a destination each year. Here the geological history of this "gorges" landscape is told by Cornell University master teacher Art Bloom (1928-2017), who introduced generations of students and curious individuals of all ages to the story behind the region's beautiful scenery, its glacial history, and its world-class examples of many landforms: drumlins, through valleys, bedrock-cut channels, and more. The first five chapters provide overviews of the regional geology, as well as important terms and concepts. Gorges History concludes with a series of site-specific descriptions of places in the area that you can visit to learn even more.

Gorges History: Landscapes and Geology of the Finger Lakes Region

Arthur L. Bloom

The Cayuga Lake region abounds with a great diversity of plant and animal species. Many of these are commonly encountered during outdoor adventures in this beautiful area of Central New York. Native species that have made this region their home for thousands of years intermingle with recently introduced "alien" invaders from other parts of the world, all contributing to the modern ecology of the woods, fields, streams, and gorges that surround Cayuga Lake. This book will help you to identify and learn more about over 300 of these species-including fungi, plants, and animals-as well as commonly encountered fossil remains of organisms that lived in a sea that covered this region 370 million years ago.

Field Guide to the Cayuga Lake Region, Second Edition

James Dake

American paleontology was, in many respects, born in Virginia. The history of paleontological work in Virginia includes fossils from the Precambrian to Pleistocene, from protists to proboscideans. It clearly shows the evolution and the peak periods in the science over the last 400 years, and the activity of hundreds of researchers, including many of the leading American scientists of their times. This paper provides a chronological summary of this remarkable interval in the history of science. Three indexes are included that should help future students to locate the literature of Virginia paleontology. The first includes the References Cited in alphabetical order by author. The second lists all fossil references by fossil type. The third index lists all references in order of the geologic age of the studied taxa. Twenty-four text-figures demonstrate the techniques of fossil illustrations as they evolved from wood blocks to scanning electron microscopy. Forty-four plates illustrate representative fossils found in Virginia from the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic.

History of Paleontology in Virginia: 1607-2007

Lauck W. Ward

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