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How we know what we know about our changing climate scientists and kids explore global warming

"This volume describes where scientists look to find evidence of climate change--from changes in bird migration patterns and fruit blossom dates, to obtaining tree rings and mud cores--and especially how students and other citizen-scientists are assisting to monitor climate change, as well as what c...

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Main Author: Cherry, Lynne
Other Authors: Braasch, Gary
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Nevada City, CA : Dawn Publications, c2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Climatic changes > Juvenile nonfiction.
Global warming > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:"This volume describes where scientists look to find evidence of climate change--from changes in bird migration patterns and fruit blossom dates, to obtaining tree rings and mud cores--and especially how students and other citizen-scientists are assisting to monitor climate change, as well as what can be done to mitigate global warming"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:66 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-62) and index.
ISBN:9781584691037 (hardback : acid-free paper)
1584691034 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9781584691044 (pbk.)
1584691042 (pbk.)
Author Notes:Children's book illustrator and author Lynne Cherry was born on January 5, 1952, and grew up in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Encouraged by her parents at an early age to use her creative mind, Cherry wrote a book called Kitty's Adventures when she was just ten years old. As an adult Cherry reillustrated the book, while still keeping the original story, and published it as Archie, Follow Me.

Cherry earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Tyler School of Art in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, in 1973. After graduating college, Cherry held a succession of jobs, including serving as artist-in-residence at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Maryland, acting as an historical consultant, organizing teacher-training conferences with The Center for Children's Environmental Literature, and doing illustrations for the Java History Trail Project.

In 1986, Cherry went to Yale University to get her Master of Arts degree in history, in part so that she could successfully write a children's book about the environment. The finished book, which Cherry entitled A River Ran Wild, was named a Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies and a Children's Choice Book by a CBC/International Reading Association committee. Cherry's book, The Snail's Spell, was awarded the 1983 New York Academy of Sciences Children's Book Science Award, and her book The Great Kapok Tree was named an Outstanding Science Trade Book by the Children's Book Council and the National Science Teachers Association.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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