SELECTED TITLES
Bentley, W. A. Snowflakes in photographs. Mineola,
N.Y., Dover Publications, 2000. 72 p.
Originally published as Snowcrystals. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1931.
QC926.36.B46
2000
Blanchard, Duncan C. The snowflake man: a biography of
Wilson A. Bentley. Blacksburg, VA, McDonald & Woodward Pub., 1998.
237 p.
QC858.B46 B55
Kepler, Johannes. The six-cornered snowflake. Oxford, Claredon P.,
1966. 75 p.
Edited and translated from the Latin by Colin Hardie with
essays by L.L. Whyte and B.F. J. Mason.
Bibliography: p. 75
QC929.S7 K413
LaChapelle, Edward R. Field guide to snow crystals. Cambridge,
England, International Glaciological Society, c1992. 101 p.
Originally published Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1969.
Bibliography: p.101.
QC929.S7.L3
1992
Libbrecht, Kenneth George. The snowflake: winter’s secret
beauty. Stillwater, MN, Voyageur Press, c2003. 112 p.
QC926.32.L53
2003
Nakaya, Ukichrio. Snow crystals: natural and artifical.
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1954. 510 p.
Bibliography: 312-314.
QC929.S7.N2
Noble, Marty and Eric Gottesman. Snowflake designs. Mineola,
N.Y., Dover Publications, c2001. 43 p.
QC929.S7 N63 2001
Sugarman, Joan. Snowflakes. Boston, Little, Brown, c1985. 53
p.
QC929.S7.S84
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Titles for Younger Readers
Martin, Jacqueline Briggs. Snowflake Bentley. Boston,
Houghton Mifflin, 1998. 1 v. (unpaged).
Snowflake Bentley won the 1999 Caldecott Medal.
QC858.B46M37 1998
Stoddard, Gloria May. Snowflake Bentley: man of science,
man of God. Shelburne, VT, New England Press, 1985.
QC858.B46S76
1985
Sugarman, Joan. Snowflakes. Boston, Little, Brown, c1985. 53
p.
QC929.S7.S84 1985
Waldman, Neil. The snowflake: a water cycle story. Brookfield,
CT, Millbrook Press, c2003. GB848.W34 2003
SELECTED ARTICLES
Amato, Ivan. The secret life of snow. Discover, v. 25, Feb. 2004: 56-61.
Q1.D57
Bentley, W. A. and G. H. Perkins. A study of snowflakes. Popular
science,
v. 53, May 1898: 65-82.
AP2.P8
Boyle, Sarah. When research is a snow job. National Wildlife, v. 40,
Dec. 2001/Jan. 2002: 62-64.
S964.U6N35
Carey, John. Crystallizing the truth: snowflakes have confounded scientists
for centuries; only now are they begining to understand how these crystals
form. National Wildlife, v. 23, Dec. 1984/Jan 1985: 42-45.
S964.U6N35
Colbeck, Samuel C. What becomes of a winter snowflake? Weatherwise, v. 38, Dec.
1985: 312-315.
QC851.W42
Hapgood, F. When ice crystals fall from the sky, art meets science.
Smithsonian, v. 6, Jan. 1976: 66-73.
AS30.S6
Taubes, Gary. The snowflake enigma. Discover, v. 5, Jan. 1984: 74-78.
Q1.D57
Wergin, W.P., A Rango and E.F. Erbe. The structure and metamorphism of
snow crystals as revealed by low temperature scanning
electron microscopy. Proceedings
of the annual eastern snow conference, v. 53, 1996: 195-204.
QC929.S7
E34
Also available in computer format from the Electron Microscopy Unit http://emu.arsusda.gov/snowsite/contacts/277.txt
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SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES
Bentley Snow Crystal Collection of the Buffalo Museum of Science
http://informatics.buffalo.edu/faculty/abbas/bms/
Digital library of Bentley’s original glass slide negatives.
Passages from Bentley’s notebook, a bibliography of Bentley’s
papers, and notes on the photographic process are included.
Cryosphere
http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/
The cryosphere is that portion of the Earth's surface where water
is a solid form, usually as snow or ice, including sea ice, freshwater
ice, snow, glaciers, and frozen ground (or permafrost). The National
Snow and Ice Data Center sponsors this Web site which has features
such as “Cold Facts: Earth's Snow, Ice, and Frozen Soils” and “State
of the Cryosphere.”
Electron Microscope Unit Snow Page: Snow Crystal Site
http://emu.arsusda.gov/snowsite/default.html
This Web site contains snow crystal images that were obtained
by using a low temperature scanning electronic microscope at
the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center. The site includes
links to other sites as well as a publications list.
NOAA Photo Gallery: National Weather Service
Snowflake images:
Images from Studies among the Snow Crystals
... by Wilson Bentley, "The
Snowflake Man." Taken from the Annual Summary of the "Monthly
Weather Review" for 1902. Bentley’s images start
with #1299 at
the end of the page, http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/nwind26.htm and
continue to #1328 on the the next page, http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/nwind27.htm.
Also included are illustrations of Snow crystals as observed
and drawn by William Scoresby.
Winter Storm images:
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/winter1.html
Snowcrystals.com
http://www.snowcrystals.com/
“
This site is all about snow crystals and snowflakes -- what they
are, where they come from, and just how these remarkably complex
and beautiful structures are created, quite literally, out of
thin air.”
Wilson A. Bentley: The Snowflake Man. Jericho Historical Society
http://snowflakebentley.com/index.htm
See Museum link http://snowflakebentley.com/museum.htm to view
a selection of Bentley’s snow crystal images and take a
virtual tour of the museum. Also of interest are full text articles
about or by Bentley under the Resources Link.
Compiled December 2004 |