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72 results for "Environmental History"

72 results for "Environmental History"

MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History

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Climate in Words and Numbers: How Early Americans Recorded Weather in Almanacs Joyce Chaplin Professor of Early American History Harvard University With support from the Guggenheim Foundation, Joyce Chaplin is compiling a database of manuscript notes...

MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History

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THE GREAT C HERNOBYL A CCELERATION KATE BROWN PROFESSOR, MIT In April 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded and sent upwards of 50 million curies into the surrounding environment. Working through archives, Brown encountered many contradictory...

Harvard Environmental History Working Group

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Speaker: Daniel Zizzamia (Ziff Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment & Department of History) Title: Beneath the Frontier: Fossils, Coal and Remaking the American West, 1800-1920

Harvard Environmental History Working Group

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Speaker: Naomi Oreskes (Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University) Title: Science on a Mission: American Oceanography from the Cold War to Climate Change

Leah Aronowsky

Person

Research Interests: History of modern life and environmental sciences; environmental history; The Anthropocene.

Leah Aronowsky’s current research concerns the relationship between knowledge, material practices, and scale in the environmental sciences...

Ashton Macfarlane

Person

Research Interests: History of environmental monitoring; legal assimilation of biological and environmental data; history of 20th century biology; scientific collaborations between New Zealand and the United States; history of environmental, biological...

Deng-Tung Wang

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Research Interests: The historical elements of the environmental movement. From a research question that explores social reception to behaviors that impact the environment, my goal is to find something that would spark another environmental movement and...

Charlie Mayhew

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Research Interests: Early modern science; environmental history; history of environmental sciences; history of physical sciences; intellectual history; philosophy of science; science and religion.

Charlie Mayhew is a PhD student and Presidential Scholar in...

Charlotte Lai

Person

Research Interests: Global East Asia; environmental history; multispecies studies; history of biology and the natural sciences; historical ecology; cultural geography; global early modernity.

My name is Charlotte Lai, and I graduated from the University of...