{"product_id":"diary-of-a-citizen-scientist-chasing-tiger-beetles-and-other-new-ways-of-engaging-the-world-9781504083003","title":"Diary of a Citizen Scientist: Chasing Tiger Beetles and Other New Ways of Engaging the World","description":"\u003cb\u003eA critically acclaimed nature writer explores the citizen scientist movement through the lens of entomological field research in the American Southwest.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Award-winning nature writer Sharman Apt Russell felt pressed by the current environmental crisis to pick up her pen yet again. Encouraged by the phenomenon of citizen science, she decided to turn her attention to the Western red-bellied tiger beetle, an insect found widely around the world and near her home in the Gila River Valley of New Mexico. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In a lyrical, often humorous voice, Russell shares her journey across a wild, rural landscape tracking this little-known species, an insect she calls \"charismatic,\" \"elegant,\" and \"fierce.\" What she finds is renewed optimism in mysteries still left to be explored, that despite the challenges of climate change, there is a growing diversity of ways ordinary people can contribute to the research needs of scientists today in the name of environmental activism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Offering readers a glimpse into the pioneering field of citizen science, \u003ci\u003eDiary of a Citizen Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e documents one woman's transformation from a feeling of powerlessness to engaged hopefulness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the John Burroughs Medal and the WILLA Literary Award for Best Creative Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of the top ten best nature books of 2014 by GrrlScientist in \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSharman Apt Russell was awarded the 2016 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing, whose other recipients include Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Roger Tory Peterson. Her works include the award-winning young adult historical fantasy\u003ci\u003e Teresa of the New World\u003c\/i\u003e, set in the dreamscape of the sixteenth-century American Southwest, and \u003ci\u003eKnocking on Heaven's Door\u003c\/i\u003e, which takes place in a science fiction Paleoterrific future. Her nonfiction ranges from \u003ci\u003eDiary of a Citizen Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eStanding in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist\u003c\/i\u003e. Sharman is a professor emerita at Western New Mexico University in Silver City, New Mexico, and affiliate faculty at Antioch University in Los Angeles. She lives with her husband in the Gila Valley of southwestern New Mexico. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Road Integrated Media LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50535181549842,"sku":"9781504083003","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5ca608df-325d-402f-8db8-9bc9012a8e17.jpg?v=1731431372","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/diary-of-a-citizen-scientist-chasing-tiger-beetles-and-other-new-ways-of-engaging-the-world-9781504083003","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}