Project Overview
Description
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Contributors
Matthew Klingle
Matthew Klingle is associate professor of history and environmental studies at Bowdoin College. He received his B.A. in history from the University of California at Berkeley in 1990 and Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington in 2001. His research and teaching focus on urban history, environmental history, and the history of the North American West. He is the author of Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle (Yale, 2007) as well as numerous scholarly articles, contributions to anthologies, and general audience essays. He has received fellowships and awards for his work from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, American Society for Environmental History, and the Urban History Association. He has also held a fellowship (2002-04) and served as a trustee (2004-06) with the Environmental Leadership Program, a national organization that trains emerging environmental leaders from diverse social and professional backgrounds. He was on the board of directors for the Urban History Association (2003-06). In 2006, he received the Sydney B. Karofsky Prize for Junior Faculty, the only award for teaching at Bowdoin College. Since coming to Bowdoin, he has been building curriculum for community-based service learning, in partnership with local environmental organizations, public schools, and government agencies in midcoast Maine. He lives with his family in Brunswick, Maine.
Eileen Johnson
Eileen Johnson is the Program Manager for the Environmental Studies Program. In her position, she provides support for faculty and students engaged in community based research. She also oversees a summer fellowship program, the Psi Upsilon and Logan Fellowship Program, that places students in environmental positions with Maine organizations and communities. She received her B.S. from Cornell University in Environmental and Science Educatoin and her Master's in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts. She has over 20 years of experience in the environmental and education fields and served as a faculty member in the Environmental Technology Program at Southern Maine Community College prior to coming to Bowdoin College.
Tad Macy
Senior Software Developer
Tad Macy has more than 25 years of experience in the creative and effective application of technology in dynamic and progressive institutions. Tad has built several data driven web sites supporting instruction and research using a variety of open source (PHP, Perl, JavaScript, MySQL, Linux, Apache, and Drupal) and commercial tools (ArcGIS, Flash ActionScript, Photoshop, Google Earth and Maps). Macy was an instrumental member of the project to develop a web site with a Flash-based interactive map to show art galleries in Victorian London. His understanding of databases and programming skills make him an asset to many interactive data-driven web site projects. He has developed the Maine Watershed Web (http://learn.bowdoin.edu/watersheds) and the Bowdon Buoy Facility (http://learn.bowdoin.edu/bbf/) web sites. Additionally, Macy assisted the Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies to transition from print to new media of the Cahiers du dix-septième: An Interdisciplinary Journal (http://se17.bowdoin.edu/).
Jane Koopman '10
Jane Koopman is a junior at Bowdoin and a native of San Francisco. An active member of the sailing team and the outing club, she spends as much time outside as possible on the water, on the slopes or on the trail. She also enjoys horseback riding and is a member of the equestrian team. When she is not outside Jane enjoys acting in school productions. She is an environmental studies and geology major and theater minor. Jane is looking forward to going abroad to the University of Bristol in England in the spring to continue studying theater and Geology as well as to explore Europe.
Duncan Masland '11
After first studying the Androscoggin River during the fall of his freshman year in Environmental Studies 101,Duncan enjoyed the opportunity for further research during the spring in Environmental Studies/History 242. For the Service Learning aspect of the course Duncan researched the environmental history of Topsham through the lens of bridges finding interesting connections between the river, industry, health, and community. Duncan then spent the summer tracking down documents, further contributing to this website, and developing an interactive map interface.
