Recent Acquisitions May 2007

Subject	Call No. and Title

Aquaculture -- Law and legislation
	281466 McCoy, Henry D., II. American and International Aquaculture Law: A Comprehensive Legal Treatise and Handbook Covering Aquaculture Law, Business and Finance of Fishes, Shellfish and Aquatic Plants. Peterstown, W. Va.: Supranational, 2000. Aquaculture is the fastest growing sector of agriculture and the speed of scientific and economic advances during the past decade has outpaced the available literature dealing with legal aspects of aquaculture. This book redresses this imbalance and will provide a thorough and comprehensive reference for those involved in the many aspects of aquaculture where legal information is a vital tool for them to carry out their roles.

Arsenic -- Environmental aspects
	051526 Welch, Alan H. and Kenneth G. Stollenwerk. Arsenic in Groundwater: Geochemistry and Occurrence. New York: Springer, 2002. Water supplies that contain arsenic concentrations high enough to pose a human health hazard are an international problem. Surface water and ground water are both at risk of arsenic contamination. This book consolidates much of what is known about the geochemistry of arsenic and provides new information on relationships between high concentrations of arsenic in ground water and geochemical environments.

Fishes -- Breeding
	281464 Lee, Cheng-Sheng and Edward M. Donaldson, eds. Reproductive Biotechnology in Finfish Aquaculture. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2001. Successful reproduction of cultured brood stock is essential to the sustainable aquaculture of aquatic organisms. This book describes recent advances in the field of finfish reproductive biotechnology. The chapters, written by eminent scientists, review the progress and assess the status of biotechnology research applicable to the reproduction of aquaculture finfish species. The last chapter summarizes discussions at the workshop, provides recommendations to industry and describes priorities of research and development.

Global warming
	030778 Flannery, Tim. The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005. The Weather Makers outlines the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future. Flannery also offers specific suggestions for action for both lawmakers and individuals.

	030784 Kolbert, Elizabeth. Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. New York: Bloomsbury Publishers, 2006. To tackle the subject of global warming, Kolbert travels to the Arctic, interviews researchers and environmentalists, explains the science and the studies, draws frightening parallels to lost ancient civilizations, unpacks the politics, and presents the personal tales of those who are being affected most--the people who make their homes near the poles and are watching their worlds disappear.

Land use -- United States
	201645 Trust for Public Land. Doing Deals: A Guide to Buying Land for Conservation. Washington, D.C.: Land Trust Alliance, 1995. Buying land for conservation is risky business. This book will help you minimize the risk and maximize the effectiveness of your protection efforts. Doing Deals introduces the basic real estate, financial, and strategic principles that will enable you to operate competently and comfortably in the world of conservation real estate.

Lobbying -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
	201644 Avner, Marcia. The Nonprofit Board Member’s Guide to Lobbying and Advocacy. St. Paul: Anherst H. Wilder Foundation, 1994. Nonprofit lobbying is exciting, rewarding, honorable work. Lobbying is a proven way to advance issues, support good ideas, respond to crises, avert disasters, and ensure that an organization's work is adequately supported. Through lobbying, specific laws and regulations that will further an organization's mission can be identified and pressed for adoption. Public policies can be shaped and sustained to reflect an organization's values and priorities.

Marine biology
	110234 Norse, Elliott A., ed. Global Marine Biological Diversity: A Strategy for Building Conservation into Decision Making. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1993. Global Marine Biological Diversity presents basic principles of marine conservation for decision makers in governments, industries, and conservation organizations and for marine resource managers, students, and all others concerned with protecting our ocean resources.

Mercury -- Environmental aspects
	162680 Harris, Reed, David P. Krabbenhoft, Robert Mason, Michael W. Murray, Robin Reash and Tamara Saltman, eds. Ecosystem Responses to Mercury Contamination. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC, 2007. The editors outline the infrastructure and methods needed to measure, monitor, and regulate the concentration of mercury present in the environment. They propose a set of indicators to use as a measure of changing mercury concentrations in air, water, soil, and aquatic life.

Nonprofit organizations -- Management
	201646 Masaoka, Jan. The Best of the Board Café: Hands-On Solutions for Nonprofit Boards. St. Paul: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, 2003. The Best of the Board Cafe gives nonprofit board members just-in-time guidance to the issues at hand. Because board member's time is scarce, articles are "short enough to read over a cup of coffee."

Paleoclimatology
	030792 Cox, John D. Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change and What It Means for Our Future. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2005. It is now apparent that alterations in our climate can happen quickly and dramatically. Centuries of slow, creeping climate variations have been punctuated by far more rapid changes. What does this mean for our future? While scientists have long recognized the threats posed by global warming, they must now consider that the natural behavior of our climate is perhaps a greater threat than we'd imagined.

Power resources
	181575 v.4 Thompson, Brian J., ed. Energy, Simulation-Training, Ocean Engineering and Instrumentation: Research Papers of the Link Foundation Fellows, Volume 4. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2001. This volume contains technical papers on various aspects of energy generation, from environmental impacts to the social consequences to new technological applications.

Remote sensing
	232370 Lillesand, Thomas M., Ralph W. Kiefer, and Jonathan W. Chipman. Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation. New York: Wiley, 2004. From recent developments in digital image processing to the next generation of satellite systems, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of remote sensing and image interpretation.

Schooners -- Lake Michigan -- History
	191127 Pennington, Rochelle. The Historic Christmas Tree Ship. Milwaukee: Pathways Press, 2004. Captain Herman Schuenemann became affectionately known as "Captain Santa" for his yearly voyages from Michigan's Upper Peninsula to Chicago with a load of Christmas trees during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Christmas Tree Ship set out in 1912 for its final destination on the southern end of Lake Michigan. On her way, she encountered a gale, and ended up as one of the most storied shipwrecks of the Great Lakes.

Science -- Philosophy
	232372 Henry N. Pollack. Uncertain Science … Uncertain World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Scientific uncertainty puzzles many people. The confusion arises when scientists have more than one answer, and disagree among themselves. By acquainting readers with the ways that uncertainty arises in science, how scientists accommodate and make use of uncertainty, and how they reach conclusions in the face of uncertainty, this book enables them to confidently evaluate uncertainty from their own perspectives, in terms of their experiences.

Teams in the Workplace
	201647 Winer, Michael and Karen Ray. Collaboration Handbook: Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey. St. Paul: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, 1994. This is a complete guide to putting together a collaboration that gets results. You'll see how to get a collaboration going, define the results you're after, determine everyone's roles, create an action plan, and evaluate the results. Includes a case study, worksheets, and special sidebars with helpful tips such as what to do at your first meeting.

Voluntarism -- Awards
	201643 Wittich, Bill. 77 Ways to Recognize Volunteers. Fullerton, Calif.: Knowledge Transfer, 2003. Recognition is magic. It is one of the keys to retention. Everyone wants to know that they are being appreciated when they work. This 96 page publication contains 77 suggestions for showing your volunteers that they are appreciated.

Volunteers -- Recruiting
	201642 Wittich, Bill. 77 Ways to Recruit Volunteers. Fullerton, Calif.: Knowledge Transfer, 2003. This book will give you many suggestions for recruiting new volunteers. It will help you create a variety of niche marketing techniques to find today's potential volunteers. These volunteers are different from yesterday's traditional volunteers in that they are willing to admit that they are looking for a benefit from their volunteer activity.

Water quality management -- Mississippi River
	240549 Water Resources Planning for the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2005. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently completed its feasibility study for the Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway, which was one of the longest and most complicated studies in the agency's history. This report considered the broader issue of managing the multiple resources of the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway, especially with regard to several, recently-issued NRC reports on Corps of Engineers' planning procedures.

Water resources management -- India -- Planning
	191120 Briscoe, John and R. P. S. Malik. India’s Water Economy: Bracing for a Turbulent Future. New Delhi; New York: Oxford University Press, the World Bank, 2006. This authors focus on the major water-related changes facing India and the critical measures required to address them. The report will be useful for policymakers, government agencies, NGOs, journalists, and general readers interested in India’s water economy.

Other new books
	020569 Garn, Herbert S., Dale M. Robertson, William J. Rose, Gerald L. Goddard, and Judy A. Horwatich. Water Quality, Hydrology, and Response to Changes in Phosphorus Loading of Nagawicka Lake, a Calcareous Lake in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Reston, Va.: U.S. Geological Survey, 2006.

	030781 Bergkamp, Ger, Brett Orlando and Ian Burton. Change: Adaptation of Water Resources Management to Climate Change. Gland, Switzerland; Cambridge: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 2003.

	030802 Kling, George W., et al. Findings from Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region: Impacts on Wisconsin Communities and Ecosystems. Cambridge, Mass.: Union of Concerned Scientists, 2003.

	050645 2006 Wisconsin Groundwater Coordinating Council. Report to the Legislature. Madison: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Water Resources Management, 2006.

	071171 Ebener, Mark P., ed. The State of Lake Huron in 1999. Ann Arbor: Great Lakes Fishery Commission, 2005.

	152285 Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission. A Regional Land Use Plan for Southeastern Wisconsin: 2035. Waukesha: The Commission, 2006.

SELECTED RECENT ACQUISITIONS - May 2007