UMass Former & Current Students Win National Book Award
Charley Eiseman (UMass Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation Major, 2000) and Noah Charney (Current Organismic and Evolutionary Biology PhD Student) won the National Outdoor Book Award for best nature guidebook of 2010. This is the outdoor world's largest and most prestigious book award program. Their 592-page work, Tracks & Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates: A Guide to North American Species, includes nearly 1,000 color photos and identifies thousands of marvelously mysterious signs created by beetles, spiders, flies, ants, slugs, and many other spineless animals. Topics covered include eggs, cocoons, nests, webs, galls and other plant damage, holes in the ground, and even the patterns left by tiny feet scurrying in the dust.
The awards committee found Eiseman and Charney’s guide to be an “outstanding work and a first-of-its-kind.” This praise echoes the sentiment of reviewers and newspapers pouring in from across the country who have hailed the book as one that “belongs in every natural history library” (Gerry Rising, The Buffalo...