Legacy of racist US housing policies extends even to bird data
"....Ellis-Soto and his team studied bird sightings in more than 9,000 neighbourhoods, covering almost 200 US cities....
“You can better predict where you have data on birds based on systemic racism — redlining maps from 1933 — than climate, tree cover or population density, everything a bird should actually care about”
#EnvironmentalStudies #EnvHist #HistSTM #Biodiversity #Sociology
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02825-w

New publication: "Luminescence dating at Border Cave: attempts, questions, and new results" #EnvironmentalStudies #Archaeology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107787

New publication: "Multi-millennial human impacts and climate change during the Maya early Anthropocene: implications on hydro-sedimentary dynamics and socio-environmental trajectories (Naachtun, Guatemala)" #EnvironmentalStudies #Archaeology #Geography https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107458

New publication: "Luminescence dating estimates for the coastal MSA sequence of Hoedjiespunt 1 (South Africa)" #EnvironmentalStudies #Archaeology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103320

Bernie Krause: The sound ecologist capturing a disappearing world: ‘70% of habitats I recorded are gone’

"His personal library of more than 5,000 hours of recordings holds snapshots of a rapidly deteriorating world....
Where in the 1960s, 10 hours in the field were enough to produce one hour of usable material, the time it takes today is now closer to 1,000 hours"

#SoundscapeEcology #Biodiversity #Soundscapes #EnvironmentalStudies #EnvHist
#Climate_Change #noise
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jun/14/bernie-krause-sound-ecologist-disappearing-world

[Blog Archive]
Maria Martin Bachman: Audubon's Birds and some often Overlooked Contributions of Women to Natural History
Many of the backgrounds and detailed vegetation illustrations which put Audubon's birds in context were painted by Maria Martin. Her contributions included the beautifully and accurately detailed entomological drawings....
#HistSTm #Slavery #Audubon #EnvHist #EnvironmentalStudies #SouthCarolina
https://until-darwin.blogspot.com/2010/12/audubons-birds-and-some-often.html

[Blog Archive]
Maria Martin Bachman's sketches and paintings for Audubon: On-line Exhibition from the Charleston County Public Library
[The online exhibit has been taken down, but the surviving works by Maria Martini are still viable via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine via https://web.archive.org/web/20151110011923/http://sites.slicker.com/ccpl/content.asp?name=Site&catID=6013&parentID=5403 ]
#HistSTm #Slavery #Audubon #EnvHist #EnvironmentalStudies #SouthCarolina
https://until-darwin.blogspot.com/2011/02/maria-martin-bachmans-sketches-and.html

[Blog Archive]
A Short Biography of John Bachman (1790-1874)
2010. Dictionary of Early American Philosophers.
Clergyman, educator, naturalist, friend of Audubon, and enslaver...[Bachman and Audubon] united over their shared love of Natural History... collecting specimen...and disputing their divergent manners, as the ascetic Bachman often admonished Audubon for his love of “gog and wine and snuff.”
#HistSTm #Slavery #Audubon #EnvHist #EnvironmentalStudies #SouthCarolina
https://until-darwin.blogspot.com/2011/07/short-biography-of-john-bachman-1790.html

I love my colleagues @sfcny! #sfcny Check out this paper "Rewilding in Miniature" by Michael Tessler & Emily Herstoff https://www.sfc.edu/news/sfc-professors-publish-paper-on-the-benefits-of-converting-lawns-into-meadows #sfcny #EnvironmentalScience #EnvironmentalStudies #conservation

#NewBook #OpenAccess

Engaging Environments in Tonga: Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World

by Arne Aleksej Perminow

"On March 11, 2011, a tsunami warning was issued for #Tonga in #Polynesia. On the low and small island of Kotu, people were unperturbed in the face of impending catastrophe. The book starts out from the puzzle of peoples’ responses and reactions to this warning [...]"

https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/PerminowEngaging

#Anthropology #Anthrodon #Ethnography #EnvironmentalStudies

Many Moths Speak Up to Ward Off Bats
"Investigating a community of moths in Ecuador, Barber and Kawahara also found evidence of complex acoustic mimicry, featuring various combinations of moths—some jammers, some warners, some that do both, and some that make warning noises even though they aren’t poisonous—all copying one another’s signals."
#EnvironmentalStudies #Biodiversity #Soundscapes #SoundscapeEcology
https://www.the-scientist.com/notebook/many-moths-speak-up-to-ward-off-bats-70686

Animals Are Shape-Shifting in Response to a Warming World
Forced to respond to a climate that’s changing faster than it ever has, it remains unclear whether species’ adaptations can keep pace.
#EnvironmentalStudies #Climate_Change #Biodiversity #Soundscapes #SoundscapeEcology

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/animals-are-shape-shifting-in-response-to-a-warming-world-70869

‘When in doubt, plant a nut tree’: the push to seed America with chestnuts
#EnvironmentalStudies #EnvHist #Climate_Change #Biodiversity #chestnuts
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/24/push-to-seed-america-with-chestnuts

Gotham Coyote Project
Studying NYC's newest immigrant
"Researchers, educators, and students working together to study the ecology of the northeastern coyote in New York City and the region. Our job is to tell the story of the NYC coyote and to help promote understanding and coexistence."
#NYC #Coyote #EnvironmentalStudies #EnvHist
https://www.gothamcoyote.org/

Bones of ancient native dogs found at Jamestown
Researchers find DNA link to Indigenous dogs that starving colonists may have eaten
“The first people to enter the Americas likely did so with their dogs,” Angela Perri, an archaeologist at Texas A&M University, wrote with colleagues ...“Where people went, dogs went.”
#EnvironmentalStudies #EnvHist #dogs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/12/29/dogs-native-jamestown-discovered/

When [Audubon] arrived at Key West, he sought a meeting with Dr. Benjamin Strobel, a man with whom he shared a mutual acquaintance named Dr. John Bachman. Bachman was a Charleston clergyman, recognized naturalist, collaborator and friend of Strobel... co-authored the book, “The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America,” with #Audubon.... Bachman penned a letter of introduction that Audubon could deliver to Strobel.
#HistSTM #HistSci #EnvHist #EnvironmentalStudies
https://keysweekly.com/42/florida-keys-history-flamingo-flock-disappears/

Science is making it possible to ‘hear’ nature. It does more talking than we knew
"we should not forget about the pressing challenge of noise pollution, the reduction of which can have immediate, positive and significant impacts for non-humans and humans alike. Hushing the human cacophony is a major challenge of our time"
#Soundscapes #SoundscapeEcology #EnvironmentalStudies #Biodiversity
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/30/science-hear-nature-digital-bioacoustics

Lowcountry at High Tide: A History of Flooding, Drainage, and Reclamation in Charleston, South Carolina (USC Press, 2010) is the first book to deal with the topographic evolution of Charleston, its history of flooding from the seventeenth century to the present, and the efforts made to keep its populace high and dry, as well as safe and healthy.
#Climate_Change #SouthCarolina #EnvironmentalStudies #EnvHist
https://www.southcarolinapublicradio.org/show/walter-edgars-journal/2022-11-21/lowcountry-at-high-tide

New twitter refugee. Looking forward to discussing #Science #urbangreening #urbanplanning #urbanecology #EnvironmentalStudies #climatescience #forests

#Introduction:

#Medieval #Ecocriticisms is for #academics and other folks interested in #EnvironmentalStudies and the #Global #MiddleAges, across disciplines, geographies, and times. We publish a journal, #MedievalEcocriticisms (see profile for link) and organize conference sessions at #ICMS #Kalamazoo #WMU and at #IMC #Leeds.

We look forward to connecting with people here.