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Open access to the beach

February 18, 2014
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When it comes to helping the public access publications and data, digital technology has been revolutionary. But what about beaches—can digital tools help make them openly accessible? All California's beaches,…

Environmental Humanities and Open Access

October 24, 2013
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On occasion of Open Access Week our friends at the journal Environmental Humanities have asked Andrew Murphie, Dolly Jørgensen, Fred Gibbs and Wilko Hardenberg to answer the following question: Does…

New Media and New Publics: An Example with Polar Bears

September 12, 2013
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Etienne Benson is a historian of science, technology, and environment in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. In this guest post he describes…

Calling the Glacier

September 1, 2013
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This guest post by Dr. Serafine Lindemann presents a digital environmental humanities-themed project by sound artist Kalle Laar, curated by Dr. Lindemann. Images, static or in motion, are always spatially…

Floods present and past: Exploring historic precedents through the Arcadia project

August 20, 2013
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This article is contributed by Andreas Grieger, a research associate at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society, LMU Munich. Earlier this summer (in June 2013) Central and parts of…

“Slow Violence”: A Proposal for Ecological Game Studies

January 27, 2013
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by Alenda Y. Chang Critical game studies is by now a well-developed field. Thus far, however, there has been little sustained interest on behalf of game scholars in connections to…

Going Graphic!

December 4, 2012
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Jessica Van Horssen, Assistant Professor York University, Toronto What is the role of the historian in society? Are we simply charged with teaching undergraduates about the assassination of Archduke Franz…

The 3 Me’s and the Digital Environmental Dissertation

October 3, 2012
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Richard Ross, Ph.D. candidate in Environmental History Claremont Graduate University Hashtags, the 3 Me’s, and the Digital Environmental Dissertation During the last few decades, new ways to find, share, and…

Visualizing San Francisco Bay’s Forgotten Past

June 11, 2012
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Matthew Booker, Associate Professor North Carolina State University To begin: One question and one metaphor. The question is, what use is visualization to historians? How does this method add value…

A digital experience of exploration and discovery: The Environment & Society Portal

As the Internet delivers ever-more specific search results and personalized content, we increasingly miss out on surprising connections. Our project, the Environment & Society Portal, offers something different: an exploratory…