Diary of a Citizen Scientist: Chasing Tiger Beetles and Other New Ways of Engaging the World

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Sharman Apt Russell

Diary of a Citizen Scientist

Chasing Tiger Beetles and Other New Ways of Engaging the World

Sharman Apt Russell

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English

Open Road Media
14 March 2023

Insects (entomology); Meteorology & climatology; The environment; Wildlife: butterflies, other insects & spiders

A critically acclaimed nature writer explores the citizen scientist movement through the lens of entomological field research in the American Southwest.

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.

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.

Offering readers a glimpse into the pioneering field of citizen science, Diary of a Citizen Scientist documents one woman’s transformation from a feeling of powerlessness to engaged hopefulness.

Winner of the John Burroughs Medal and the WILLA Literary Award for Best Creative Nonfiction

Named one of the top ten best nature books of 2014 by GrrlScientist in The Guardian

By: Sharman Apt Russell
Imprint: Open Road Media
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 290g
ISBN: 9781504083003
ISBN 10: 1504083008
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 14 March 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sharman 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 Teresa of the New World, set in the dreamscape of the sixteenth-century American Southwest, and Knocking on Heaven’s Door, which takes place in a science fiction Paleoterrific future. Her nonfiction ranges from Diary of a Citizen Scientist to Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist. 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.