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ISBN: 1-108-62587-8 , 1-108-67096-2 , 1-108-55217-X

Series Statement: Ecology, biodiversity, and conservation

Content: Notwithstanding the importance of modern technology, fieldwork remains vital, not least through helping to inspire and educate the next generation. Fieldwork has the ingredients of intellectual curiosity, passion, rigour and engagement with the outdoor world - to name just a few. You may be simply noting what you see around you, making detailed records, or carrying out an experiment; all of this and much more amounts to fieldwork. Being curious, you think about the world around you, and through patient observation develop and test ideas. Forty contributors capture the excitement and importance of fieldwork through a wide variety of examples, from urban graffiti to the Great Barrier Reef. Outdoor learning is for life: people have the greatest respect and care for their world when they have first-hand experience of it.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2020). , Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- References -- Foreword -- Part I Getting Curious About Nature -- 1 Fieldwork and Nature: Observing, Experimenting and Thinking -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Curiosity -- 1.3 How Do We Carry Out Fieldwork? -- 1.4 Some Classic Field Studies -- 1.5 Perspectives -- 1.6 What Follows -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 2 The Place of Field Studies in Environmental Science -- 2.1 Beginnings -- 2.2. The Hegemony of Fieldwork -- 2.3 The Field in Eclipse -- 2.4 Revaluing Fieldwork -- 2.5 Prospect -- Acknowledgement -- References -- 3 The History of Fieldwork in the Geosciences -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Some Nineteenth-Century Heroes -- Alexander von Humboldt -- Louis Agassiz -- Charles Darwin -- John Wesley Powell -- Grove Karl Gilbert -- Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen -- William Morris Davis -- Ellsworth Huntington -- Roy Chapman Andrews -- Ralph Alger Bagnold -- 3.3 Student Fieldwork in the First Half of the Twentieth Century -- 3.4 Geoscience Fieldwork Today -- References -- 4 Pioneering Fieldwork Heroes in the Life Sciences -- 4.1 Fieldwork and Seeing What Is There -- 4.2 Early Foundations -- 4.3 Early Fieldworkers: Local Study and Global Biogeography -- 4.4 Appreciations of Change and Dynamic Ecological Interrelationships -- 4.5 Interaction and Behavioural Ecology -- 4.6 The British Natural History Tradition of Fieldwork -- 4.7 Birds -- 4.8 Marine Biology -- 4.9 Pioneers of Field Education -- References -- 5 The Educational Benefits of Out-of-Classroom Learning -- 5.1 Locating Fieldwork -- 5.2 The Relationship between Fieldwork and Laboratory Work -- 5.3 The Reasons Why Fieldwork Is a Key Part of Learning for Subjects Like Geography and Biology -- 5.4 Types of Fieldwork -- The London Challenge Fieldwork Programme. , Fieldwork Can Allow for Independent Research Projects -- 5.5 Ensuring the Right Circumstances Are in Place to Encourage Fieldwork -- 5.6 Conclusions -- References -- Part II Essays: Inspiring Fieldwork -- 6 Understanding the Decline of Hen Harriers on Orkney -- The Hen Harrier - Harried -- Orkney's Hen Harriers -- From Africa to Orkney -- Learning through Fieldwork -- References -- 7 Rocky Shores Are Not Just for the Able-Bodied -- Reference -- 8 Life, Love and Longing to Survive -- 9 Bringing Palaeoecology Alive -- References -- 10 Expedition Botany/Hobby Botany -- 11 The Illisarvik Drained-Lake Field Experiment: a Legacy of J. Ross Mackay -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 12 In Praise of Meteorology Field Courses -- Reference -- 13 Time, Place and Circumstance -- References -- 14 Sampling Fish Diversity along a Submarine Mountain Chain -- The Mid-Atlantic Ridge -- Deep-Sea Discoveries -- Species New to Science -- References -- 15 Place and Placefulness -- References -- 16 Ripples across the Pond -- References -- 17 Fieldwork, Field-Friends and the Paradox of Absence -- References -- 18 Ornithological Fieldwork: Essential and Enjoyable -- A Young Person's Perspective -- Reflections on Fair Isle -- References -- 19 Exploration Science on the Shore of the Arctic Ocean: a Personal Experience -- References -- 20 Only Connect - and Make Records -- References -- Plates -- 21 Studying Patterned Bogs -- References -- 22 Mapping the Rise of the Animals: Cambrian Bodies in the Sirius Pass, North Greenland -- References -- 23 Evolution in the Cellar: Live-Trapping Wild House Mice in the Italian Alps -- A Breakthrough - Speciation! -- Catching Mice, and Taking Samples -- References -- 24 Reflections on 'Babooning' -- References -- 25 Bogs, Birds and Bones: Interdisciplinary Fieldwork on the Isle of Rum National Nature Reserve -- An Invitation. , 'Why is What Where?' A Year-Long Learning Project -- The Story of Rum: a Context for the Course -- An Island Context for Experiential Constructivist Learning -- Rum Puzzles -- A Relationship with a Particular Place -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 26 Exploring World(s) Down Under -- Reference -- 27 Experiments by Nature: Strength in Realism -- Does Elevated CO2 Stimulate Tree Growth? -- Does an Extremely Low Temperature Prevent Plants from Responding to Soil Nutrients? -- Are Drought Conditions Slowing Plant Growth Because Plants Run Out of Carbohydrates? -- My Take-Home Message -- References -- 28 Big Problems - Small Animals -- What Drives Lemming Cycles? -- Turning to Meadow Voles, Red Grouse, and a Field Experiment -- Snowshoe Hare Cycles: a New Beginning -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 29 Soil Survey: a Field-Based Science -- The Soil Survey of Scotland -- Why Map Soils? -- Surveying and Field Mapping -- Use of the Data -- Acknowledgement -- References -- 30 A Travelling Ethnography of Urban Technologies -- 'Tracing the Life' of a Technological Object -- Dwelling versus Travel: a Methodological Approach Informed by Ethnographic Sensitivities -- References -- 31 My Date with the Devil -- 32 Peregrinations through the Heathlands and Moorlands of Britain: an Applied Plant Ecologist's Tale -- My Surveys -- My Experiments -- My Teaching -- References -- 33 The Maimai Catchment New Zealand -- 34 'Writing in the Field': the Importance of a Local Patch -- References -- 35 Looking but Not Seeing: How Sketching in the Field Improves Observational Skills in Science -- Two Examples of Field Sketches -- Acknowledgement -- References -- 36 From Rum to Recording Forest Soils via the Soil Survey of Scotland: a Life of Fieldwork -- References -- 37 In Praise of Bat Detectors -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 38 In Search of Tawny Frogmouths. , Beginning to Understand Frogmouths through Searching -- Developing a Long-Term Study -- References -- 39 Don't Just Sit There Reading . . . -- References -- 40 Fieldwork in the Australian Bush: If It Doesn't Kill You, It'll Convert You -- References -- 41 Field Studies of Behaviour and Life-Changing Events -- Reference -- 42 Sediment, Wind Turbines and Rhinos: Ah, the Life of a Geographer! -- References -- 43 Conservation Science: the Need for a New Paradigm Founded on Robust Field Evidence -- References -- 44 The Worst Journey in the World -- Observing Waterfowl Feed -- Encountering King Penguins Rather Than Emperors at the Zoo -- The 'Worst Journey' to Collect Eggs -- 'Exploration is the Physical Expression of the Intellectual Passion' -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 45 Field-less Fieldwork in Archaeology's Digital Age -- References -- 46 Reflections on a Career with the Field Studies Council -- At School -- At University -- Manpower Services Commission -- First Job -- Second Job: the FSC -- Biological Recording -- The Future -- References -- 47 My Love Affair with Rocks That Fizz -- Reference -- 48 In the Footsteps of John Wesley Powell: Restoring the Sand Bars in the Grand Canyon -- References -- 49 Connecting the Next Generation to Their World -- 50 Beyond the Curriculum: Wider Conceptions of Learning in the Field -- Introduction -- Methods -- Vignettes -- A Local Bus -- Coastal Change -- Bugs in the Woods -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III Reflections and Where Next for Field Studies -- 51 Epilogue: Inspiring, Curious and Novel Fieldwork -- The Essentials -- Field Studies Are Vital for Society -- Patient Observation -- Coda: Curiosity - the Beginning Not the End -- References -- Contributing Author Biographies -- Index.

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-108-42804-5

Language: English

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108552172