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Boston Environmental History Seminar List of Past Participants October 9, 2001 Sam Bass Warner "Exploring the Boston Region's Environmental History" November 13, 2001 Professor Will Holton & William Newman "Environmental Problems Associated with the 19th-Century Boston Landfill" December 11, 2001 Professor William Meyer "Bostonians and Their Weather" March 12, 2002 Nancy Seasholes "The Unplanned City: Filling in Boston's Tidal Flats and Changing It's Topography" April 9, 2002 Karl Haglund "Transportation, Public Space, and the Design of the Charles River" October 8, 2002 John R. McNeill "The Urban Turn: Cities and Global Environmental History since 1800" November 12, 2002 Professor John E. Ebel "Major Historical Earthquakes in Northeastern North America and their Effects in Boston." December 10, 2002 Professor Paul Sutter "Benton Mackaye and the Boston Bay Circuit" February 11, 2003 Dorothy Richter "Building Blocks of Boston: An Environmental History of Boston's Use of Building Stone" March 18, 2003 Professor William Patterson "The Vegetation of Boston Harbor Area through Time" April 8, 2003 Professor John Cumbler "The Personalities and Politics behind the Campaign for Public Health in Massachusetts" September 30, 2003 Professor Anne Whiston Spirn "Tracing the Past, Shaping the Future: Buried Floodplains, Urban Watersheds, and City Design and Development" November 18, 2003 Professor Brian Donahue "The Great Meadow: Husbandry in Colonial Concord" December 9, 2003 Professor John Durant "Restoring Water Quality in the Mystic River" February 10, 2004 Professor Christopher J. Bosso "Beyond Conservation: The Evolution of the Environmental League of Massachusetts" March 9, 2004 Ninian Stein "Maize, Mackerel and Meadows: Subsistence, Landscape and Cultural Identity in Southern New England 1000-1700 AD" April 13, 2004 Michael Rawson "The Nature of Water: Antebellum Reform and the Crusade for Municipal Water in Boston" September 21, 2004 Professor Martin Melosi "How the Automobile Shaped the City" December 7, 2004 James C. O'Connell "Shaping the Built Landscape of Suburban Boston" January 11, 2005 Cheryl Beredo "Archival Needs and Opportunities in the Environmental History of New England" February 8, 2005 Professor Judith Lazyer "Science, History, and Overfishing in New England" March 8, 2005 Mark Besonen "Hurricane Activity in the Boston Area: A 1000-Year Record from the Lower Mystic Lake" April 12, 2005 Alice Ingerson "Land Happens: Using History for Conservation in New England" 20 September 2005 William Leavenworth, University of New Hampshire "From Resource to Commodity: A Reliable Way to Exhaust Self-Renewing Ecosystems-The Example of the Nineteenth-Century New England Fisheries" 6 December 2005 David Whelpley, Northeastern University "Boston Harbor and Secondary Treatment: A Legislative History of ?301 (h) of the Clean Water Act" 7 February 2006 David C. Hsiung, Juniata College and the Massachusetts Historical Society "Environmental History and the American Revolution." 14 March 2006 Philip Cash, Emmanuel College "The Impact of Smallpox in Boston to 1803" 11 April 2006 Jim Lambrechts, Wentworth Institute of Technology "Recent Findings on Characteristics of Nineteenth-Century Fill in the Back Bay and the Fenway" |
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