Life on Surtsey: Iceland's Upstart Island

by Loree Griffin Burns

In this addition to the Scientists in the Field series, readers join scientists as they tackle something unusual in the world of ecosystems: colonization. Not a colonization by people, but one of cells, seeds, spores, and other life forms that blow in, fly in, float in, and struggle to survive on the beautiful but harsh new island of Surtsey.  

  • Format: eBook
  • ISBN-13/ EAN: 9781328828835
  • ISBN-10: 1328828832
  • Pages: 80
  • Publication Date: 11/14/2017
  • Carton Quantity: 1
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  • About the Author

    Loree Griffin Burns

    LOREE GRIFFIN BURNS, Ph.D., did her doctoral at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The author of Beetle Busters, Tracking Trash, and The Hive Detectives, she is an award-winning writer whose books for young people have won many accolades, including ALA Notable designations, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book Award, an IRA Children's Book Award, a Green Earth Book Award and two Science Books & Films (SB&F) Prizes.Loree holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and her books draw heavily on both her passion for science and nature and her experiences as a working scientist. She lives with her husband and their three kids in a farmhouse in central New England, where she gardens, keeps chickens, and writes about science and scientists. She likes to think that one day she'll fill the big old barn on their property with horses.Learn more about Loree at loreegriffinburns.com and follow her on Twitter @loreegburns.

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    ?  "An amazing science adventure well worth the trip." — Kirkus, starred review 

     

    ? "Burns clearly conveys the long hours and spare conditions for such work... as well as the research team’s unmitigated enthusiasm....Appendices offer insights into Iceland’s culture and extreme climate, all of which enrich this unique demonstration of life’s awe-inspiring tenacity." —Booklist, starred review 

     

    ?"A plethora of curriculum connections make this a STEM title not to miss; budding scientists will return to this again and again."--School Library Journal, STARRED review 

     

    "Burns, who traveled with Icelandic researchers to Surtsey, meticulously documents every detail of life in a remote field station, from the particulars of trapping insects to the extremes taken to minimize human impact on the island."--Horn Book

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