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Summary: A picture book biography tells the story of Sylvia Earle's growing passion for the wonders of the sea and how her ocean exploration and advocacy have made her known around the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Foster Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 EARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio EarleNivola, Claire A.
Summary: Listeners follow noted oceanographer Sylvia Earle as her childhood adventures in the Gulf of Mexico help inspire her life's work: discovering the secrets of "the blue heart of the planet."
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 921 Earle 2012Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE LIFFabiny, Sarah
Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of the American biologist, whose influential work, "The Silent Spring," inspired worldwide conservation movements.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CARSummary: Examines the work of two biologists, Bill Andrews and Aubrey de Grey, who have dedicated their lives to the reversal of biological aging.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Structure Films 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IMMSouder, William
Summary: Rachel Carson, founder of the modern environmental movement, began work on her seminal book Silent Spring in the late 1950s, when a dizzying array of synthetic pesticides had come into use. Leading this chemical onslaught was the insecticide DDT. Effective against crop pests as well as insects that transmitted human diseases such as typhus and malaria, DDT had at first appeared safe. But as its...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARSON, RACHEL SOUSummary: It chronicles the famed biologist lifelong love for the natural world and his groundbreaking research. His work with ants led to his remarkable studies of advanced social behavior. His research turned to human behavior, and the controversial discipline of sociobiology was founded. His work in the great National Park of Gorongosa, brings together the great themes of his life and work: nature and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC E.O.Summary: Origami may seem an unlikely medium for understanding and explaining the world. But around the globe, several fine artists and theoretical scientists are abandoning more conventional career paths to forge lives as modern-day paper folders. Through origami, these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science. This film...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Green Fuse Films 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BETHeinrich, Bernd
Summary: In this part memoir, part scientific investigation, a biologist and natural historian uses his long-distance running to illuminate the changes to a human body over a lifetime, exploring the relationship between metabolism, diet, exercise, and age.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEINRICH, BERND HEIGreene, Carol.
Summary: A biography of the biologist whose writings helped initiate the environmental movement.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Childrens Press 1992
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB CARSON GRESisson, Stéphanie Roth
Summary: As a child, Rachel Carson lived by the rhythms of the natural world. Spring after spring, year after year, she observed how all living things are connected. And as an adult, Rachel watched and listened as the natural world she loved so much began to fall silent. Spring After Spring traces Rachel’s journey as scientist and writer, speaking truth to an often hostile world through her book, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Book Press 2018
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Summary: "Acclaimed as a public scientist and as a spokesperson on pressing environmental and equity issues, delivering his message from the classroom to 60 Minutes, Paul R. Ehrlich reflects on his life, including his love affair with his wife, Anne, his scientific research, his public advocacy, and his concern for global issues. Interweaving the range of his experiences--as an airplane pilot, a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EHRLICH, PAUL R. EHRJahren, Hope.
Summary: "An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world,"--Amazon.com. Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAHREN, HOPE JAHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B JAHREN JAHGreene, Harry W.
Summary: "Intellectually rich, intensely personal, and beautifully written, Tracks and Shadows is both an absorbing autobiography of a celebrated field biologist and a celebration of beauty in nature. Harry W. Greene, award-winning author of Snakes: The Evolutionof Mystery in Nature delves into the poetry of field biology, showing how nature eases our existential quandaries. More than a memoir, the book...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Univ of California Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 570 GREBallard, Robert D.
Summary: "Oceanographer and marine biologist Robert D. Ballard looks back on a long and storied life that includes accomplishments ranging from discovering new life-forms to finding the wreck of the Titanic"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALLARD, ROBERT D, BALRae, Rowena
Summary: "Rachel Carson and Ecology for Kids explores the life and ideas of American biologist, conservationist, and science writer Rachel Carson, who served as the catalyst of the modern environmental movement"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CARWidder, Edith
Summary: "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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WIDDER, EDITH WIDSummary: Mel is a free-thinking musician. When he meets Ginger, an uptight biologist, and asks her to be his new roommate, it will change both of their lives forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KETMontgomery, Sy
Summary: "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." --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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Summary: Explores the ramifications of keeping killer whales in captivity through the story of marine biologist and animal advocate Naomi Rose, whose battle against SeaWorld reached a breaking point with the highly publicized 2010 death of trainer Dawn Brancheau.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.53 KIRWatson, James D.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scientific American Modern Classics 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572.86 WATThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020