Susie Adams signs WILD WORK

WILD WORK at Lemuria Books: Susie Adams Signing and Reading

WILD WORK draws its scope from the people doing field science: its more than 40 first-person accounts by 37 women biologists range across wildlife research, conservation, dangerous field conditions and the demands of combining work with family life. Susie Adams brings the anthology to Lemuria Books in Jackson on Thursday, Nov. 12, for a signing followed by a reading.

Field science from inside the work

The anthology follows researchers studying animals and wild places, with subjects that include wolves, foxes, condors, bats and bears. Its accounts also describe fieldwork in rivers where venomous snakes are present and encounters with poachers. These are stories about the conditions and risks around research, not just the animals being studied.

The collection also considers the strain of balancing demanding fieldwork and family life, as well as friendships formed through research. Across the collection, contributors document decades of women’s work in fish and wildlife research—a record that has received limited treatment in books.

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Adams’s freshwater research

The event’s Susie Adams is identified in the event biography as Susan B. Adams, a freshwater ecologist with a Ph.D. in biology and ecology from the University of Montana. Her research as a senior scientist at a federal agency focuses on crayfish and fish in freshwater ecosystems. She has presented research on four continents and served as president of the International Association of Astacology, which focuses on crayfish.

Visit Jackson’s event description also profiles wildlife biologist and writer Sophie A.H. Osborn, whose work with birds across the Americas included field management for the California Condor Recovery Program in Arizona. Lemuria’s listing names Adams and Alison McCartney for the appearance; it does not list Osborn as a guest or explain McCartney’s role.

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