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4) Lab girl
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahrens remarkable stories: about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classrooms labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and learned to perform lab work done “with both the heart and the hands”; and about the inevitable disappointments,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
70 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
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
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiv, 240 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Sharing her once-in-a-lifetime experience studying penguins in Antarctica, a scientist, weaving together the history of Antarctic exploration with climate science, field observations, and her own personal journey of growth and reflection, offers a rare glimpse into life on this uninhabited continent.
Author
Publisher
Boom! Box
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
79 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm.
Description
"Meet Rachel Carson, the woman who changed the way America fought against the environmental crisis through her bestselling books, ultimately spurring the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency"--
11) Rachel Carson
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
135 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 25 cm.
Description
Profiles the life and career of the famed biologist whose work on the harmful effects of pesticides is credited with inspiring the modern environmental movement.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Description
Traces Rachel Carson's journey as a scientist and writer, from her childhood observing the interconnectedness of nature to her adult life as an environmental activist, ultimately paving the way for the modern green movement.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Presents the life and accomplishments of the American biologist, whose influential work, "The Silent Spring," inspired worldwide conservation movements.
14) Decoding Watson
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Profiles the life and career of molecular biologist James Watson.
17) Silent spring
Series
Becoming green volume 4
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (56 min.) : sd., col. with b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Witness the life of passionate biologist and environmentalist, Rachel Carson, and how she exposed the effects of the unregulated use of pesticides and herbicides by the federal government, and sparked a revolution in environmental policy.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xx, 329 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Edith Widder grew up determined to become a marine biologist. But after complications from a surgery during college caused her to go temporarily blind, she became fascinated by light as well as the power of optimism. Her focus turned to oceanic bioluminescence, a scientific frontier in our last earthly one, and with little promise of funding or employment she took a leap into the darkness. On her first visit to the deep ocean, in an experimental...
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