APPLICATION
Due date: May 1, 2022
The Field Memorial Library Friends 2022 Scholarship Prompt and Resources
Climate change and global warming are important topics of research and conversation in the 21st century. As you prepare to enter college, it seems quite certain that climate change is already or will affect your life going forward – but how? Your scholarship application prompt is to discuss an aspect of climate change that you feel is either already affecting your life or you expect it will in the future. Both fictional and non-fiction resources are acceptable if they help you to present your response to the prompt. Complete the scholarship application and return it to the Field Memorial Library.
Links and resources to help you complete your essay are below.
Suggestions of climate change areas thought to be of interest in Conway include Biodiversity and Climate Change or Forests, Water, and Climate Change. (The full list is pasted below.)
Use the climate change topic areas presented on the website of the U. S. Forest Service, a division of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, as your starting point in determining which area of climate change you will discuss. These websites present a brief summary of each topic. Choose an area that you anticipate is already affecting you or may affect you and your interests in college and beyond. Click on the Climate Change Resource Center graphic to reach their websites
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Resources that you can use in preparing your response to the prompt
| Non-Fiction – All Available at the FML | Fiction From the UC Berkeley Climate Fiction Group at Good Reads (Available at the FML only if indicated below) |
| Hurricane Watch – Sheets 2001 Acts of God – Steinberg 2000 Earth in Balance – Gore 1992 Madhouse Effect – Mann 2016 This Changes Everything – Klein. 2014 | The Emissary by Yōko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (Translator) The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe,… by Mary Robinette Kowal Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan, Ken Liu (Translator) view » |
| Earth – McKibben. 2010 The Uninhabitable Earth – Wallace & Wells 2019 Hot, Flat, and Crowded – Friedman. 2008 Internal Combustion – Black 2006 The Boom – Gold 2104 Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid – Thor Hansen 2021 | The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) by N.K. Jemisin view » Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation by Phoebe Wagner (Editor), Brontë Christopher Wieland (Editor) view » Tentacle by Rita Indiana, Achy Obejas (Translator) view » Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories in Extreme Futures…by Elly Blue (Editor), Robert Bose view » |
| Juvenile section: How We Know What We Know About our Changing Climate – Lynne Cherry. 2008 The plot to save the planet – Brian Dumanie, call # 658.408 Series by Paul Stein from 2001 with titles like “Floods of the Future”, “Droughts of the Future”, “Global Warming: A Threat to our Future” etc | The Overstory by Richard Powers view » Available at the FML Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward view » Polar City Red by Jim Laughter view » 10:04 by Ben Lerner view » |
| Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer, R. W., Milkweed Editions, 2015. | American War by Omar El Akkad view » |
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Links to the U. S. Forest Service’s climate change topics websites
Biodiversity and Climate Change
Carbon and Land Management, an introduction
Carbon as One of Many Management Objectives
Carbon Benefits of Wood-Based Products and Energy
Carbon Considerations in Land Management
Detecting Tree Migration with Forest Inventory Analysis
Effects of Drought on Forests and Rangelands
Forest Management for Carbon Benefits
Forest Soil Carbon and Climate Change
Forests, Water, and Climate Change
Management of Forest Carbon Stocks
Silviculture for Climate Change
Species Distribution and Climate Change
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