Extreme Scientists: Exploring Nature's Mysteries from Perilous Places (Scientists in the Field) - Hardcover

Jackson, Donna M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0618777067 ISBN 13: 9780618777068

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009

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Scientists in the Field .s.s. to the extreme!

When Paul Flaherty goes to work, he climbs into a four-engine WP-3D Orion turboprop plane and heads directly into the eye of a hurricane. Miles below, Hazel Barton’s job in microbiology takes her to the depths of the world’s most treacherous caves. And on the other side of the topsoil, way, way above the forest floor, Stephen Sillett passes his days (and sometimes his nights) in the canopies of the tallest trees on earth.
Welcome to the workand worldsof extreme scientists. From hurricanes to caves to the crowns of towering redwoods, these scientists battle some of the earth’s most intense conditions in order to save lives, preserve species, and help us to better understand the way our planet works.

Biografía del autor:

Donna M. Jackson spent many rewarding days at Colorado State University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital while researching ER Vets. She says that watching the highly skilled, committed, and compassionate emergency vet team in action inspired her work. An award-winning author of nonfiction books for children, Ms. Jackson holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder and lives in Colorado with her family.

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• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0618777067
• ISBN 13: 9780618777068
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 63