@BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Marilyn Fenichel and Heidi A. Schweingruber", title = "Surrounded by Science: Learning Science in Informal Environments", isbn = "978-0-309-13674-7", abstract = "Practitioners in informal science settings\u2014museums, after-school programs, science and technology centers, media enterprises, libraries, aquariums, zoos, and botanical gardens\u2014are interested in finding out what learning looks like, how to measure it, and what they can do to ensure that people of all ages, from different backgrounds and cultures, have a positive learning experience. \n\nSurrounded by Science: Learning Science in Informal Environments, is designed to make that task easier. Based on the National Research Council study, Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places, and Pursuits, this book is a tool that provides case studies, illustrative examples, and probing questions for practitioners. In short, this book makes valuable research accessible to those working in informal science: educators, museum professionals, university faculty, youth leaders, media specialists, publishers, broadcast journalists, and many others.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12614/surrounded-by-science-learning-science-in-informal-environments", year = 2010, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Philip Bell and Bruce Lewenstein and Andrew W. Shouse and Michael A. Feder", title = "Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places, and Pursuits", isbn = "978-0-309-11955-9", abstract = "Informal science is a burgeoning field that operates across a broad range of venues and envisages learning outcomes for individuals, schools, families, and society. The evidence base that describes informal science, its promise, and effects is informed by a range of disciplines and perspectives, including field-based research, visitor studies, and psychological and anthropological studies of learning.\n\nLearning Science in Informal Environments draws together disparate literatures, synthesizes the state of knowledge, and articulates a common framework for the next generation of research on learning science in informal environments across a life span. Contributors include recognized experts in a range of disciplines\u2014research and evaluation, exhibit designers, program developers, and educators. They also have experience in a range of settings\u2014museums, after-school programs, science and technology centers, media enterprises, aquariums, zoos, state parks, and botanical gardens.\n\nLearning Science in Informal Environments is an invaluable guide for program and exhibit designers, evaluators, staff of science-rich informal learning institutions and community-based organizations, scientists interested in educational outreach, federal science agency education staff, and K-12 science educators.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12190/learning-science-in-informal-environments-people-places-and-pursuits", year = 2009, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Conserving Biodiversity: A Research Agenda for Development Agencies", isbn = "978-0-309-04683-1", abstract = "The loss of the earth's biological diversity is widely recognized as a critical environmental problem. That loss is most severe in developing countries, where the conditions of human existence are most difficult. Conserving Biodiversity presents an agenda for research that can provide information to formulate policy and design conservation programs in the Third World.\nThe book includes discussions of research needs in the biological sciences as well as economics and anthropology, areas of critical importance to conservation and sustainable development. Although specifically directed toward development agencies, non-governmental organizations, and decisionmakers in developing nations, this volume should be of interest to all who are involved in the conservation of biological diversity.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1925/conserving-biodiversity-a-research-agenda-for-development-agencies", year = 1992, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "A Biological Survey for the Nation", isbn = "978-0-309-04984-9", abstract = "Our country has long recognized the importance of its biological resources but we often lack sufficient scientific knowledge to make wise decisions. This realization has led to calls for new ways of providing this information, including the formation of a national biological survey. This volume discusses key issues and problems for which an improved assessment of the nation's biological resources is needed; the kinds of efforts in research and information management needed to create that assessment; and how government, private organizations, and individuals can work together to meet the needs identified. Policymakers, resource managers, public interest groups, and researchers will find this book useful as they participate in the national dialogue on this topic and take actions to implement the needed survey activities.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2243/a-biological-survey-for-the-nation", year = 1994, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP editor = "E.O. Wilson and Harvard University", title = "Biodiversity", abstract = "This important book for scientists and nonscientists alike calls attention to a most urgent global problem: the rapidly accelerating loss of plant and animal species to increasing human population pressure and the demands of economic development. Based on a major conference sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and the Smithsonian Institution, Biodiversity creates a systematic framework for analyzing the problem and searching for possible solutions.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/989/biodiversity", year = 1988, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP editor = "Peter H. Raven and Tania Williams", title = "Nature and Human Society: The Quest for a Sustainable World", isbn = "978-0-309-06555-9", abstract = "From earliest times, human beings have noticed patterns in nature: night and day, tides and lunar cycles, the changing seasons, plant succession, and animal migration. While recognizing patterns conferred great survival advantage, we are now in danger from our own success in multiplying our numbers and altering those patterns for our own purposes.\nIt is imperative that we engage again with the patterns of nature, but this time, with awareness of our impact as a species. How will burgeoning human populations affect the health of ecosystems? Is loss of species simply a regrettable byproduct of human expansion? Or is the planet passing into a new epoch in just a few human generations?\nNature and Human Society presents a wide-ranging exploration of these and other fundamental questions about our relationship with the environment. This book features findings, insights, and informed speculations from key figures in the field: E.O. Wilson, Thomas Lovejoy, Peter H. Raven, Gretchen Daily, David Suzuki, Norman Myers, Paul Erlich, Michael Bean, and many others.\nThis volume explores the accelerated extinction of species and what we stand to lose\u2014medicines, energy sources, crop pollination and pest control, the ability of water and soil to renew itself through biological processes, aesthetic and recreational benefits\u2014and how these losses may be felt locally and acutely.\nWhat are the specific threats to biodiversity? The book explores human population growth, the homogenization of biota as a result in tourism and trade, and other factors, including the social influences of law, religious belief, and public education.\nDo we have the tools to protect biodiversity? The book looks at molecular genetics, satellite data, tools borrowed from medicine, and other scientific techniques to firm up our grasp of important processes in biology and earth science, including the \"new\" science of conservation biology.\nNature and Human Society helps us renew our understanding and appreciation for natural patterns, with surprising details about microorganisms, nematodes, and other overlooked forms of life: their numbers, pervasiveness, and importance to the health of the soil, water, and air and to a host of human endeavors.\nThis book will be of value to anyone who believes that the world's gross natural product is as important as the world's gross national product.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6142/nature-and-human-society-the-quest-for-a-sustainable-world", year = 1997, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Twenty-First Century Ecosystems: Managing the Living World Two Centuries After Darwin: Report of a Symposium", isbn = "978-0-309-20901-4", abstract = "The two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, February 12, 2009, occurred at a critical time for the United States and the world. In honor of Darwin's birthday, the National Research Council appointed a committee under the auspices of the U.S. National Committee (USNC) for DIVERSITAS to plan a Symposium on Twenty-first Century Ecosystems. The purpose of the symposium was to capture some of the current excitement and recent progress in scientific understanding of ecosystems, from the microbial to the global level, while also highlighting how improved understanding can be applied to important policy issues that have broad biodiversity and ecosystem effects. The aim was to help inform new policy approaches that could satisfy human needs while also maintaining the integrity of the goods and services provided by biodiversity and ecosystems over both the short and the long terms.\nThis report summarizes the views expressed by symposium participants; however, it does not provide a session-by-session summary of the presentations at the symposium. Instead, the symposium steering committee identified eight key themes that emerged from the lectures, which were addressed in different contexts by different speakers. The focus here is on general principles rather than specifics. These eight themes provide a sharp focus on a few concepts that enable scientists, environmental NGOs, and policy makers to engage more effectively around issues of central importance for biodiversity and ecosystem management.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13109/twenty-first-century-ecosystems-managing-the-living-world-two-centuries", year = 2011, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Biodiversity at Risk: Today's Choices Matter", isbn = "978-0-309-27310-7", abstract = "A growing body of evidence has sounded the alarm that the biodiversity that supports and sustains life on Earth is at risk. Habitat destruction, resource exploitation, and climate change are among the many stressors that have put 1 million species under threat of extinction and sharply reduced the populations of many plant and animal species. While researchers and global leaders ramp up efforts to address this existential threat, the significance of species loss and the value of preserving biodiversity is not widely recognized by policy makers or the public. This booklet, produced by an international committee of experts, provides a publicly accessible overview of the many dimensions of biodiversity and why it's vital to the health of all life on the planet. The booklet also examines the causes of biodiversity loss and presents actions that can be taken from the individual to the global level to stop this decline.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26384/biodiversity-at-risk-todays-choices-matter", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Amaranth: Modern Prospects for an Ancient Crop", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/19381/amaranth-modern-prospects-for-an-ancient-crop", year = 1984, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Resources for Teaching Elementary School Science", isbn = "978-0-309-05293-1", abstract = "What activities might a teacher use to help children explore the life cycle of butterflies? What does a science teacher need to conduct a \"leaf safari\" for students? Where can children safely enjoy hands-on experience with life in an estuary? Selecting resources to teach elementary school science can be confusing and difficult, but few decisions have greater impact on the effectiveness of science teaching.\nEducators will find a wealth of information and expert guidance to meet this need in Resources for Teaching Elementary School Science. A completely revised edition of the best-selling resource guide Science for Children: Resources for Teachers, this new book is an annotated guide to hands-on, inquiry-centered curriculum materials and sources of help in teaching science from kindergarten through sixth grade. (Companion volumes for middle and high school are planned.)\nThe guide annotates about 350 curriculum packages, describing the activities involved and what students learn. Each annotation lists recommended grade levels, accompanying materials and kits or suggested equipment, and ordering information.\nThese 400 entries were reviewed by both educators and scientists to ensure that they are accurate and current and offer students the opportunity to:\n\n Ask questions and find their own answers.\n Experiment productively.\n Develop patience, persistence, and confidence in their own ability to solve real problems.\n\nThe entries in the curriculum section are grouped by scientific area\u2014Life Science, Earth Science, Physical Science, and Multidisciplinary and Applied Science\u2014and by type\u2014core materials, supplementary materials, and science activity books. Additionally, a section of references for teachers provides annotated listings of books about science and teaching, directories and guides to science trade books, and magazines that will help teachers enhance their students' science education.\nResources for Teaching Elementary School Science also lists by region and state about 600 science centers, museums, and zoos where teachers can take students for interactive science experiences. Annotations highlight almost 300 facilities that make significant efforts to help teachers.\nAnother section describes more than 100 organizations from which teachers can obtain more resources. And a section on publishers and suppliers give names and addresses of sources for materials.\nThe guide will be invaluable to teachers, principals, administrators, teacher trainers, science curriculum specialists, and advocates of hands-on science teaching, and it will be of interest to parent-teacher organizations and parents.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/4966/resources-for-teaching-elementary-school-science", year = 1996, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "The U.S. National Plant Germplasm System", isbn = "978-0-309-04390-8", abstract = "In the United States, the critical task of preserving our plant genetic resources is the responsibility of the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS).\nNPGS undergoes a thorough analysis in this book, which offers wide-ranging recommendations for equipping the agency to better meet U.S. needs\u2014and lead international conservation efforts.\nThe book outlines the importance and status of plant genetic conservation and evaluates NPGS's multifaceted operations. Two options for revamping NPGS within the U.S. Department of Agriculture are included.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1583/the-us-national-plant-germplasm-system", year = 1991, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Environmental Science in the Coastal Zone: Issues for Further Research", isbn = "978-0-309-04980-1", abstract = "This book assesses the dimensions of our scientific knowledge as it applies to environmental problems in the coastal zone. The volume contains 10 papers that cover different aspects of science, management, and public policy concerning the coastal zone. A consensus is presented on several key issues confronting science for developing a more holistic approach in managing this region's intense human activities and important natural resources.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2249/environmental-science-in-the-coastal-zone-issues-for-further-research", year = 1994, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Lost Crops of the Incas: Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation", isbn = "978-0-309-04264-2", abstract = "This fascinating, readable volume is filled with enticing, detailed information about more than 30 different Incan crops that promise to follow the potato's lead and become important contributors to the world's food supply. Some of these overlooked foods offer special advantages for developing nations, such as high nutritional quality and excellent yields. Many are adaptable to areas of the United States.\nLost Crops of the Incas includes vivid color photographs of many of the crops and describes the authors' experiences in growing, tasting, and preparing them in different ways. This book is for the gourmet and gourmand alike, as well as gardeners, botanists, farmers, and agricultural specialists in developing countries.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1398/lost-crops-of-the-incas-little-known-plants-of-the", year = 1989, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Coordinating Review Committee for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics: Principles and Standards for School Mathematics: Final Report", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9870/coordinating-review-committee-for-the-national-council-of-teachers-of-mathematics", year = 2000, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Symposium on Tactical Oceanography: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, 12-15 March 1990", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9945/symposium-on-tactical-oceanography-naval-postgraduate-school-monterey-california-12", year = 1991, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academy of Sciences", title = "Biographical Memoirs: Volume 60", isbn = "978-0-309-07865-8", abstract = "Biographic Memoirs: Volume 60 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6061/biographical-memoirs-volume-60", year = 1991, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Finding the Path: Issues of Access to Research Resources", isbn = "978-0-309-06625-9", abstract = "On January 27-28, 1999, the NRC Commission on Life Sciences organized \"Finding the Path: Issues of Access to Research Resources\", a conference to explore the breadth of problems and opportunities related to obtaining and transferring research resources. The following summary of the 2-day meeting lays out the problems concerning access to research resources as discussed by 2 dozen speakers and members of the audience.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9629/finding-the-path-issues-of-access-to-research-resources", year = 1999, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP editor = "Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla and Don E. Wilson and Edward O. Wilson", title = "Biodiversity II: Understanding and Protecting Our Biological Resources", isbn = "978-0-309-05584-0", abstract = "\"The book before you...carries the urgent warning that we are rapidly altering and destroying the environments that have fostered the diversity of life forms for more than a billion years.\"\nWith those words, Edward O. Wilson opened the landmark volume Biodiversity (National Academy Press, 1988). Despite this and other such alarms, species continue to vanish at a rapid rate, taking with them their genetic legacy and potential benefits. Many disappear before they can even be identified.\nBiodiversity II is a renewed call for urgency. This volume updates readers on how much we already know and how much remains to be identified scientifically. It explores new strategies for quantifying, understanding, and protecting biodiversity, including:\n\n New approaches to the integration of electronic data, including a proposal for a U.S. National Biodiversity Information Center.\n Application of techniques developed in the human genome project to species identification and classification.\n The Gap Analysis Program of the National Biological Survey, which uses layered satellite, climatic, and biological data to assess distribution and better manage biodiversity.\n The significant contribution of museum collections to identifying and categorizing species, which is essential for understanding ecological function and for targeting organisms and regions at risk.\n\nThe book describes our growing understanding of how megacenters of diversity (e.g., rainforest insects, coral reefs) are formed, maintained, and lost; what can be learned from mounting bird extinctions; and how conservation efforts for neotropical primates have fared. It also explores ecosystem restoration, sustainable development, and agricultural impact.\nBiodiversity II reinforces the idea that the conservation of our biological resources is within reach as long as we pool resources; better coordinate the efforts of existing institutions\u2014museums, universities, and government agencies\u2014already dedicated to this goal; and enhance support for research, collections, and training. This volume will be important to environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, educators, students, and concerned individuals.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/4901/biodiversity-ii-understanding-and-protecting-our-biological-resources", year = 1997, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "America's Climate Choices", isbn = "978-0-309-14585-5", abstract = "Climate change is occurring. It is very likely caused by the emission of greenhouse gases from human activities, and poses significant risks for a range of human and natural systems. And these emissions continue to increase, which will result in further change and greater risks.\nAmerica's Climate Choices makes the case that the environmental, economic, and humanitarian risks posed by climate change indicate a pressing need for substantial action now to limit the magnitude of climate change and to prepare for adapting to its impacts. Although there is some uncertainty about future risk, acting now will reduce the risks posed by climate change and the pressure to make larger, more rapid, and potentially more expensive reductions later. Most actions taken to reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts are common sense investments that will offer protection against natural climate variations and extreme events. In addition, crucial investment decisions made now about equipment and infrastructure can \"lock in\" commitments to greenhouse gas emissions for decades to come. Finally, while it may be possible to scale back or reverse many responses to climate change, it is difficult or impossible to \"undo\" climate change, once manifested.\nCurrent efforts of local, state, and private-sector actors are important, but not likely to yield progress comparable to what could be achieved with the addition of strong federal policies that establish coherent national goals and incentives, and that promote strong U.S. engagement in international-level response efforts. The inherent complexities and uncertainties of climate change are best met by applying an iterative risk management framework and making efforts to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions; prepare for adapting to impacts; invest in scientific research, technology development, and information systems; and facilitate engagement between scientific and technical experts and the many types of stakeholders making America's climate choices.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12781/americas-climate-choices", year = 2011, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Engineering", title = "Resources for Teaching Middle School Science", isbn = "978-0-309-05781-3", abstract = "With age-appropriate, inquiry-centered curriculum materials and sound teaching practices, middle school science can capture the interest and energy of adolescent students and expand their understanding of the world around them.\nResources for Teaching Middle School Science, developed by the National Science Resources Center (NSRC), is a valuable tool for identifying and selecting effective science curriculum materials that will engage students in grades 6 through 8. The volume describes more than 400 curriculum titles that are aligned with the National Science Education Standards.\nThis completely new guide follows on the success of Resources for Teaching Elementary School Science, the first in the NSRC series of annotated guides to hands-on, inquiry-centered curriculum materials and other resources for science teachers.\nThe curriculum materials in the new guide are grouped in five chapters by scientific area\u2014Physical Science, Life Science, Environmental Science, Earth and Space Science, and Multidisciplinary and Applied Science. They are also grouped by type\u2014core materials, supplementary units, and science activity books.\nEach annotation of curriculum material includes a recommended grade level, a description of the activities involved and of what students can be expected to learn, a list of accompanying materials, a reading level, and ordering information.\nThe curriculum materials included in this book were selected by panels of teachers and scientists using evaluation criteria developed for the guide. The criteria reflect and incorporate goals and principles of the National Science Education Standards. The annotations designate the specific content standards on which these curriculum pieces focus.\nIn addition to the curriculum chapters, the guide contains six chapters of diverse resources that are directly relevant to middle school science. Among these is a chapter on educational software and multimedia programs, chapters on books about science and teaching, directories and guides to science trade books, and periodicals for teachers and students.\nAnother section features institutional resources. One chapter lists about 600 science centers, museums, and zoos where teachers can take middle school students for interactive science experiences. Another chapter describes nearly 140 professional associations and U.S. government agencies that offer resources and assistance.\nAuthoritative, extensive, and thoroughly indexed\u2014and the only guide of its kind\u2014Resources for Teaching Middle School Science will be the most used book on the shelf for science teachers, school administrators, teacher trainers, science curriculum specialists, advocates of hands-on science teaching, and concerned parents.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5774/resources-for-teaching-middle-school-science", year = 1998, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }