Scientists in the field (Houghton Mifflin)
Author
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Surveys the history of the troubled relationship between wolves and humans, examines the view that these predators are a valuable part of the ecosystem, and describes the conservation movement to restore them to the wild.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes how the wildlife detectives at the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory in Ashland, Oregon, analyze clues to catch and convict people responsible for crimes against animals.
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Anthropologist: scientist of the people
Author
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
57 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigates how scientists, particularly Jill Tarter, Director of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, use twenty-first century technology to investigate whether life exists on other planets.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of large trumpeter swans, how they nearly became extinct, and efforts to reintroduce them to the Northeastern United States and to help them relearn migration routes.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
41 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A devoted nature lover and animal tracker, Sue Morse shares her knowledge and love of some of the creatures that inhabit America's woodlands.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the research that Samuel Marshall and his students are doing on tarantulas, including the largest spider on earth, the Goliath birdeating tarantula.
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Gorilla doctors: saving endangered great apes
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12)
The prairie builders: reconstructing America's lost grasslands
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13)
Diving to a deep-sea volcano
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Quest for the tree kangaroo: an expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
Author
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
57 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Story of how the endangered species breeding expert Terri Roth struggled for years to help a rare Sumatran rhino named Emi become a mother. ... Follow the roller-coaster ride of disappointment, scientific discovery, and success that led to the first Sumatran rhino calf born in captivity in more than a century."--Inside front dust jacket.
16)
Tracking trash: flotsam, jetsam, and the science of ocean motion
Author
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
63 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
With their numbers diminishing, scientists are trying to solve the mystery of whale strandings. Why would the world's largest mammal do something that would most likely cause it to die? Around the world, scientists are trying to find the answer.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
60 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follow Dr. Alex Fillippenko and his High-Z Supernova Search Team to Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii, where they will study space phenomena and look for supernovae, dying stars that explode with the power of billions of hydrogen bombs. Dr. Fillippenko looks for black holes--areas in space with such a strong gravitational pull that no matter or energy can escape from them--with his robotic telescope. And they study the effects of dark energy, the mysterious...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book explains what invasive species are and the damage they cause to local ecosystems and economies and discusses how scientists are working to combat these encroaching organisms.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
63 pages, 17 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Extreme scientists battle some of the Earth's most intense conditions, from hurricanes to caves to the crowns of towering redwoods, in order to save lives, preserve species, and help us to better understand the way our planet works.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
74 pages : color illustrations, maps, photographs ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A pale, spotted, almost cloud-like coat makes the snow leopard uncannily invisible in its rocky mountain habitat. Author Sy Montgomery and photographer Nic Bishop accompany conservationist Tom McCarthy and his team as they travel to Mongolia's Altai Mountains to gather data about snow leopard populations in an attempt to save this endangered species.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
John Craighead George is an Arctic whale scientist studying bowhead whales in Barrow, Alaska. He conducts his research in harmony with the cultural traditions of the Iñupiaq Eskimos, natives to the area, who have been hunting these whales for more than two thousand years.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
79 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book chronicles the efforts of Dr. Merlin Tuttle and his colleagues at Bat Conservation International, as they try and save bat species from loss of habitat and white-nose syndrome.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
66 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bees don't just produce honey. Your food supply depends on them. Apiarist Dave Hackenberg's bees have a busy travel schedule, pollinating around the United States from February to July. So when Dave inspected four hundred of his hives and found that the bees had simply vanished, a dream team of bee scientists got to work.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
74 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last 91 kakapo parrots on earth. Originally this bird numbered in the millions before humans brought predators to the islands. Now on the isolated island refuge, a team of scientists is trying to restore the kakapo population.
27) Project Seahorse
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
56 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Project Seahorse follows the work of two dedicated scientists as they explore the life cycle of the tiger tail seahorse and forge partnerships with the people of Handumon in the Philippines to save its habitat."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
70 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Journey to the Namibian desert with Caitlin O'Connell, an American scientist, and witness one of nature's largest , most complex, and most intelligent mammals living today on this earth.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
79 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of the two robot vehicles, Spirit and Opportunity, that were sent to explore Mars, lasting far past their projected lives of 3 months and sending back invaluable images of the environmentally hostile planet.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the world there are probably fewer than 30 people who spend all or most of their effort working with polar bears. A veteran polar bear biologist, and the man in charge of Alaskan polar bear research for the past thirty years, Dr. Steven Amstrup has worked full time on polar bears since he joined the Polar Bear Project in 1980. The Polar Bear Project conducts ongoing research on polar bear populations and habitats in the Southern Beaufort Sea in...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
76 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A scientific journey to study the dolphins of coastal Australia considers the many potential sources of dolphin intelligence and what dolphin behavior can inform the scientific community about human intelligence, captive animals and the future of the oceans.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
76 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
An account of the work of volcanologists Andy Lockhart, John Pallister, and their team describes their life-risking efforts to investigate dangerous volcanoes that pose threats to more than one billion people worldwide.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 65 pages : illustrations, chiefly color, color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the leatherback sea turtle's natural history and recounts the efforts being made by scientists trying to save them.
Dr. Kimberly Stetwart, also known as the Turtle Lady of St. Kitts, is already waiting at midnight when an 800-pound leatherback sea turtle crawls out of the Caribbean surf and onto the sandy beach. The mother turtle has a vital job to do: dig a nest in which she will lay eggs that will hatch into part of the next generation...
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Stronger than steel: spider DNA and the quest for better bulletproof vests, sutures, and parachute rope
Author
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the work of two wildlife veterinarians who protect and chart the lives of Assateague Island's wild horses, describing their shared efforts to balance the horses' ecosystem and raise awareness.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book about the tree-killing Asian longhorned beetle reveals how the help of everyday people, their neighborhoods, teams of beetle-sniffing dogs, and a nationwide effort from bug scientists to tree doctors are working to eradicate this invasive pest.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the cheetah's essential role in the ecosystem and the ways in which Namibia's Cheetah Conservation Fund is promoting cohabitation between cheetahs and farmers.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
76 pages : color illustrations, color maps, color charts ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the work of scientists in America's national parks, as they study geysers, grizzly bears, salamanders, cacti, and fireflies.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A stunning addition to the Scientists in the Field series that explores mercury pollution found in the rivers and streams of Western Montana that might cause harm to humans--and the extinction of the entire osprey species."--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
79 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the 1990s, scientists lived inside Biosphere 2 (Biosphere 1 is the Earth itself) for two years, trying to figure out if colonizing Mars would ever be possible. Now scientists don't live there but instead conduct all sorts of studies and experiments aimed to help us better understand our environment and especially understand what sort of things are happening to it due to climate change and other man-made problems. It's a unique take on the Scientists...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
71 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the work of renowned octopus scientist Jennifer Mather and a team of researchers on the island of Moorea, near Tahiti in the South Pacific, where they work to learn more about octopuses and their behavior.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
73 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the newest addition to the ever-popular and authoritative nonfiction Scientists in the Field series, the team behind The Frog Scientist take you on a research trip to New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean to follow crows in aviaries and in the wild while answering many thought-provoking questions like: "Can a crow outsmart a scientist?" Remarkably engaging narrative nonfiction coupled with beautiful photographs, this is a trip you won't regret booking!"--...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
70 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"The Great White Shark Scientist is the latest ocean adventure from the venerable team of Sy Montgomery and Keith Ellenbogen. In it, they follow Dr. Greg Skomal, biologist and head of the Massachusetts Shark Research Program, as he strives to better understand the habits and habitats of Great Whites in order to save this amazing, if maligned, creature of the deep." --
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
73 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Follow a spacecraft the size of a piano, named New Horizons, on the first ever spacecraft mission to Pluto, the space entity formerly known as a planet, in the latest addition to the epic and authoritative Scientists in the Field series."--
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Language
English
Formats
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"Part science, part carnival--this winding adventure down the Amazon River with award-winning author Sy Montgomery and photographer Keith Ellenbogen explores how tiny fish, called piabas, can help preserve not only the rainforest and it's often misunderstood inhabitants, but the fate of our entire environment."--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
73 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the ways in which technology is being used to study hurricanes in order to predict both the timing and strength of these storms, focusing on NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel mission (HS3) mission that uses drone technology.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
76 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes--and hit our planet in them, too. But what happens if a catastrophically large one approaches earth? By looking on the ground at historical asteroid craters and present-day falls, and up into space for the big ones yet to come, a wide variety of scientists are trying to figure out how to track asteroids--and how to avoid devastating impacts in the future."--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
73 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
On November 14, 1963, something exceptional happened in Iceland--and that's saying a lot. In a country where the average summer temperature is 50°F and the sun only appears for a few hours a day during the winter, an event has to be pretty unusual to stand out. The birth of the island of Surtsey, the newest earth on Earth, was just that. On that November day, a volcano fifteen miles offshore exploded under the sea, nearly six thousand years after...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this acclaimed addition to the beloved Scientists in the Field series, author Amy Cherrix follows scientists investigating black bears—and other animals around the globe—who are rapidly becoming our neighbors in urban and suburban areas, with full-color photography.?
North Carolina's black bears were once a threatened species, but what happens when conservation efforts for a species are so successful that there's
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
71 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Travel to the African bush with Sibert medal winning team Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop in this myth-busting new addition to the Scientists in the Field series, as they join the internationally acclaimed woman researcher conducting one of the longest and most important studies of African mammals." --
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
72 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
From an acclaimed Scientists in the Field author comes the electrifying story of the scientists and engineers who are working to transform ocean waves into electricity in hopes of generating a cleaner, more sustainable power source.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
79 pages : illustrations (color), color maps, portraits ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Follow the scientists working in the Pacific Northwest to learn about the orca whale population there, as they race to save these remarkable mammals from extinction. Perfect for fans of The Great White Shark Scientist and readers looking for excellent nonfiction on this high-interest animal."--
55)
Eclipse chaser: science in the Moon's shadow
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Saving the Tasmanian devil: how science is helping the world's largest marsupial carnivore survive
Author
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
75 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What if tornadoes could be stopped or slowed down? In this addition to the critically-acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, scientist Robin Tanamachi and her team are trying to come up with a way to predict tornadoes with even greater accuracy, and save countless lives across America's heartland."--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
75 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
About earth movement and plate tectonics, and the possibility of earthquakes at the Cascadia Subduction Zone, an area between British Columbia and northern California.
59) Condor comeback
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
89 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of California condors and the scientists who have fought against their extinction.