 Featured
Scientist:
Bernd Heinrich
University of Vermont professor of biology and wildlife
biologist Bernd Heinrich is the nation's leading expert on
thermoregulation of insects. His latest book, "Winter
World," deals with how animals survive
frigid Northern winters; it will be reviewed in a January
2003 New York Times Review of Books and will be
featured in the New York Times Science News section.
Heinrich has
published scientific books - including the National Book
Award nominee
and natural history classic, "Bumblebee Economics" - as well as popular
books on natural history that have attracted a widespread following. A world-renowned
authority on ravens, Heinrich's "Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures
with Wolf-Birds", merited kudos by national media. The New York Times
Book
Review, for example, lauded the German native and record-breaking ultra-distance
runner as possessing "a rare ability to embed dense scientific explications
within graceful, light-footed nature writing. Heinrich is a former U.S. 100-mile
record holder.
Heinrich, who maintains an aviary at his Richmond, Vermont
home and provides the detailed drawings and photographs for
his publications, has
been a Guggenheim Fellow, Harvard Fellow and recipient of an Alexander von
Humboldt
Senior Scientist Fellowship Award. He contributes articles in national publications
including Science, Scientific American, Smithsonian, Natural History and the
New York Times.
Bernd Heinrich books:
- Bumblebee Economics (1979)
- In a Patch of Fireweed (1984)
- Insect Thermoregulation (1981)
- One Man's Owl (1987)
- Ravens in Winter (1989)
- Owl in the House: A Naturalist's
Diary (1990)
- Ravens in Winter (1991)
- Hot-Blooded Insects: Strategies
and Mechanisms
of Insect Thermoregulation (1993)
- Year
in the Maine Woods (1994)
- Thermal Warriors: Strategies
of Insect Survival (1996)
- Trees in My Forest (1997)
- Mind of the Raven: Investigations
and Adventures with Wold-Birds (1999)
- Racing The Antelope:
What Animals Can Teach Us
About Running and Life (2001)
- Why
We Run: A Natural History (2002)
- The Winter World (2003)
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