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SONWA winning books

SONWA Winners 1991–2024

Nature Books for Adults and Children

…extinction, traditional natural history, space sciences, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and improving science communications. • 2001. Tinkering with Eden, Kim Todd. Todd tells the stories of non-native species and how they arrived in the United States. Species covered range from pigeons, brought over by some of the earliest colonists,…

Wildlife Tracking Class

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Northland College alum Alex Alvarez

Climate Change and the Risk for Mass Violence

Alex Alvarez '85 leads the Genocide Resource Project

…work fascinating and continued to research lethal violence in the US for years. Over time, however, I began realizing that I could apply traditional criminological perspectives to genocide to help make sense of this form of collective violence. Consequently, I began to shift my research to work on mass atrocity…

High school boy looking through magnifying glass at lumber.

Changing Lives

…skills, traverse Namekagon by pontoon in search of loon chicks, learn wolf ecology and experience howling in the vast dark north woods, and practice calling in the barred owl at Forest Lodge. They also learn about current water quality research from field researchers, and they learn about many natural resource…

Northland College graduate Matthew Koszuta

Koszuta ’18 Heads to OSU

Researching Orographic Precipitation

search visited for a day over the summer and I completed my application on the only publicly-accessible computer at the camp within weeks. Q. Best experience? After my junior year, I completed a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Climate Science at Penn State. These competitive positions offer…

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Toledo Blade: Wisconsin City at Forefront of Water Wars

…a diabetic, proclaimed Waukesha’s water yielded amazing health benefits. Waukesha by then was drawing so many visitors in search of the city’s so-called “healing waters” that officials had to figure out how to manage the influx. More than 50 springs were believed to be inside the city during the 1800s,…

Northland College student plays golf.

Gilligan Personifies "Student-Athlete"

…prepared her to embark on her next journey—working to land a research position focused on fisheries management in graduate school. Her search for the right program could take her to a variety of places for the right position including Florida, California or Alaska. No matter where Gilligan ends up for…

Graduate riding a bike with no hands

Graduates, especially, be astounded by the wonder all around us

…believed there is value to search for wonder in nature. Before she would write “Silent Spring” — a bestselling book that exposed the impacts of DDT, leading to its ban — and would launch the environmental movement, she published an essay that explored the sense of wonder. She wrote: “For…