CITIZEN SCIENTIST: SEARCHING FOR HEROES AND HOPE IN AN AGE OF EXTINCTION
Book ID/图书代码： 12405016B91940
English Summary/英文概要： In the vein of H Is for Hawk and the work of Rebecca Solnit and Elizabeth Kolbert—a masterful consideration of the profound, urgent necessity to bear witness to life and loss
Here is a wide-ranging adventure in becoming a citizen scientist by an award-winning writer and environmental thought leader. As Mary Ellen Hannibal wades into tide pools, follows hawks, and scours mountains to collect data on threatened species, she discovers the power of a heroic cast of volunteers—and the makings of what may be our last, best hope in slowing an unprecedented mass extinction.
Digging deeply, Hannibal traces today’s tech-enabled citizen science movement to its roots: the centuries-long tradition of amateur observation by writers and naturalists. Prompted by her novelist father’s sudden death, she also examines her own past—and discovers a family legacy of looking closely at the world. With unbending zeal for protecting the planet, she then turns her gaze to the wealth of species left to fight for.
Combining original reporting, meticulous research, and memoir in impassioned prose, Citizen Scientist is a literary event, a blueprint for action, and the story of how one woman rescued herself from an odyssey of loss—with a new kind of science.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书由屡获殊荣的环境保护思想领袖和作家写成，描述了要成为公民科学家需要经历的各种冒险。Mary Ellen Hannibal趟过宽宽的水塘，追随过鹰隼的踪迹，也上山采集受威胁物种的数据。她发现志愿者身上有一种英雄的力量，这可能是我们减缓灭绝的最大希望。
Hannibal向着更深层挖掘，她追溯了如今被科技推动的公民科学运动，发现其起源于几百年前，始于作家和自然学家的业余观察。由于她的作家父亲突然去世，受到激励的她监视自己的过去，发现她的家族一直在观察世界。为了保护这个地球，她将目光转向为那些还存留的物种斗争。
本书综合了原创的报告、细致的研究、慷慨激昂的回忆散文。本书是文学作品，更是行动的蓝图。(LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：以下评价均关于该作者之前发表的《The Spine of the Continent》
本书展现了一个庞大的理念，如何将落基山脉的荒野之地和自然风光紧密结合，并且通过科学的、可持续的养护使之成为可能。Mary Ellen Hannibal带来了一个引人入胜又鼓舞人心的故事。本书是那些促成这件事的人写成的，热爱科学、行动以及希望的人们必将手不释卷。（Thomas E. Lovejoy，亨氏科学、经济和环境中心的生物多样性主席）尽管人类造成的影响正在撕裂这个地球，好消息是，保护生物学已经量化了我们为什么、如何治好这些支持我们生命的系统的伤口。科学家、非政府组织和普通人都合力通过地理，社会和政治努力维护者落基山脉附近的旷野，也是这片大陆上最重要的残存的荒野。本书很有意义而且颇有娱乐性，同时还非常重要。（Paul R. Ehrlich，斯坦福大学人口学教授，曾著有《The Dominant Animal》）
Praise for "The Spine of the Continent" This is the biography of a big conservation idea connected wild lands and nature-friendly landscapes the length of the Rockies and of the scientific and conservation pioneers making it actually happen. Mary Ellen Hannibal gives us an engrossing and inspiring story. The Spine of the Continent comes to life through those who are making it happen. This is a page-turner of science, action, and hope. Thomas E. Lovejoy, Biodiversity Chair, the Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment The bad news is that human impacts are tearing nature apart at the seams. The good news is that conservation biology has quantified why we have to heal these wounds in our life-support systems, and how to do it. Scientists, NGOs, and regular people are joining in a geographical, social, and political effort to sustain wilderness along the Rocky Mountains the most significant stretch of wilderness left on the continent. If we are to get any kind of handle on the extinction crisis that is decimating biodiversity, it will be by protecting the habitats that sustain it, along the Spine of the Continent. This is an engaging and entertaining book, and it is an important one. Paul R. Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University and author of"The Dominant Animal" A fine overview of wide-angle environmentalism. Hannibal explores the ambitious Spine of the Continent Initiative, a massive project to protect wildlife and land by connecting expanses of acreage across North America." Kirkus Reviews" The Spine of the Continent initiative may be the most daring and important conservation effort of our era, knitting the islands of natural beauty we’ve preserved (or ignored) during the last century into a connected, functioning ecosystem to sustain us all. Mary Ellen Hannibal delivers a compelling and personal narrative about science, nature, the extinction crisis -- and the men and women determined to restore America’s most epic landscapes. Edward Humes, author of "Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash" A thoroughly satisfying gem, readers will find themselves in the company of America s best minds (Jared Diamond, Michael Soule) and heroes (Sherri Tippie), as Hannibal travels through landscapes chronicling the efforts underway to keep North America habitable for the plants and animals that first lived here and the people who now call it home. This is what scientific writing should be: fascinating and true. "Publishers Weekly," Starred Review"
About the Author/作者介绍： Mary Ellen Hannibal是环保领域的一张新面孔，也是将科学界和公众连接在一起的颇受关注的演讲者。她的作品曾发表在包括《纽约时报》、《旧金山纪事报》、《Elle》等报刊杂志上。她从属Alicia Patterson基金会，也是美国国家科学协会作家奖的获得者。她住在旧金山。
Mary Ellen Hannibal is an emerging voice in environmentalism and a sought-after speaker connecting the scientific community to the concerned public. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, and Elle, among many others. She is an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow and a recipient of the National Society of Science Writers’ Science and Society Award. She lives in San Francisco.
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