Field Notes on Science and Nature

Just released from Harvard Press, Field Notes on Science and Nature contains actual pages from the notebooks of a dozen eminent living field scientists and naturalists alongside reflections on note-taking and fieldwork from those authors. Taken together, this volume provides an examination of how fieldwork is recorded and conveys some of the adventure and romance of the field.

A selection of press reviews of Field Notes on Science and Nature:

Nature, June 16, 2011, “Records in the field” review of Field Notes by Sandra Knapp.

The Wall Street Journal, “Spiral-Bound and Spellbound” review of Field Notes by Jennie Erin Smith

New Scientist, “Research Notes from the Wild Side” review of Field Notes by Jack Ashby

Barnes and Noble Reviews, review of Field Notes by Tess Taylor.

Talks and lectures:

July 12, 2011 at 6:30 pm. Smithsonian Institution, Research Associates public lecture.

August 9, 2011 at 3:00 pm. Province Lands Visitor Center, Cape Cod National Seashore

September 24, 2011 at 12:00 pm. Bioblitz! at the Seacoast Science Center in Rye, NH.

October 6, 2011 at 7:00 pm. Audubon Rhode Island, Environmental Education Center.

October 28, 2011 at 9:30 am. National Science Teachers Association Regional Conference. “Field Notes and the Classroom”. Hartford Hilton Salon A.

April 12, 2012. 5:30 pm. Ostrom Lecture at Yale University’s Peabody Museum.