Search Results: Returned 16 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 16
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c2010., Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: 599.4 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scientists in the field.Summary Note: Describes how scientists are learning more about bats, how they fly, communicate, and hunt, and what dangers they are facing and explains how researchers are trying to stop the spread of a disease that is killing bats in North America.
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2013., Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: 363.34 95 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Millions of people live near active volcanoes. Geologist Andy Lockhart and the Volcano Disaster Assistance Program work to predict upcoming eruptions and prevent tragedies.
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2013., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: 363.34 RUSCH Availability:7 of 7 At Location(s) Series Title: Scientists in the field.Summary Note: Follows volcanologists Andy Lockhart and John Pallister on their journey to a variety of different threatening volcanoes around the world, searching with the scientists of the Volcano Disaster Assistance Program for ways to detect early warning signs of an eruption.
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2013., Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: 363.34 RUS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scientists in the fieldSummary Note: An account of the work of volcanologists Andy Lockhart, John Pallister, and their team describes their life-risking efforts to investigate dangerous volcanoes that pose threats to more than one billion people worldwide.
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2013., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: 363.34 Rus Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scientists in the fieldSummary Note: Follows volcanologists Andy Lockhart and John Pallister on their journey to a variety of different threatening volcanoes around the world, searching with the scientists of the Volcano Disaster Assistance Program for ways to detect early warning signs of an eruption.
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2013., Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: 551.21 RUS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scientists in the fieldSummary Note: Follows volcanologists Andy Lockhart and John Pallister on their journey to a variety of different threatening volcanoes around the world, searching with the scientists of the Volcano Disaster Assistance Program for ways to detect early warning signs of an eruption.
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2013., Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: 363.34 95 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scientists in the field.Summary Note: Follows volcanologists Andy Lockhart and John Pallister as they helicopter onto active volcanoes to install equipment, climb into blast zones to collect ash samples, and endure suspense as they wait to find out if their predictions are accurate.
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-- Inside Biosphere Two2015., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: 304.2 CARSON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scientists in the field.Summary Note: Examines the construction and original purpose of the Biosphere 2, the ecosystems inside, the results of the two-year experiment, and how scientists today use it to study climate change.
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-- Inside Biosphere Two[2015], Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: 304.2 CAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Series Title: Scientists in the field.Summary Note: Examines the construction and original purpose of the Biosphere 2, the ecosystems inside, the results of the two-year experiment, and how scientists today use it to study climate change.
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-- Inside Biosphere Two[2015]., Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: ENVIRONMENT NF CAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scientists in the field.Summary Note: "In the 1990s, scientists lived inside Biosphere 2 (Biosphere 1 is the Earth itself) for two years, trying to figure out if colonizing Mars would ever be possible. Now scientists don't live there but instead conduct all sorts of studies and experiments aimed to help us better understand our environment and especially understand what sort of things are happening to it due to climate change and other man-made problems. It's a unique take on the 'Scientists in the Field' mission statement - in this case, the field/lab is a replica that allows the scientists to conduct large scale experiments that would otherwise be impossible."--Provided by publisher.
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-- Inside Biosphere Two[2016]., Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: 304.2 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scientists in the fieldSummary Note: Researchers and students, most from nearby Universtiy of Arizona, work alongside 100,000 annual tourists. Biosphere 2 scientists are studying climate change, how rainforests and oceans soak up carbon dioxide, how weather and water turn rock into soil, and how cities can use energy and water in more Earth-friendly ways.
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[2017], Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: 629.4 CAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scientists in the field.Summary Note: Pluto is cold and dark, a distant and mysterious place. For generations after its 1930 discovery, the best Pluto pictures showed just a blurry blob of light. What's going on way, way out there, almost 3 billion miles from Earth? In July 2015 a small spacecraft was set to reveal Pluto to the world. After a journey of nine and a half years, New Horizons was arriving at Pluto.
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2014., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: 333.78 CARSON Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Series Title: Scientists in the field.Summary Note: Follows scientists who study geysers, grizzlies, and salamanders in Yellowstone, Saguaro, and Great Smoky Mountains National Parks. Contains facts about each park, color photographs, a glossary, tips for readers, and further resources.
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[2019]., Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: HI-INT 551.5 CAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scientists in the field.Summary Note: What if tornadoes could be stopped or slowed down? In this addition to the critically-acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, scientist Robin Tanamachi and her team are trying to come up with a way to predict tornadoes with even greater accuracy, and save countless lives across America's heartland.
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[2019], Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: 551.55 3 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scientists in the field.Summary Note: "What if tornadoes could be stopped or slowed down? In this [book], scientist Robin Tanamachi and her team are trying to come up with a way to predict tornadoes with even greater accuracy, and save countless lives across America's heartland"--Provided by publisher.