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October Events

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Oct. 3, 2014 University of South Carolina: Departments of Geography and History, 3:30 pm,  Callcott 201, A New Look at Atmospheric Science and Technology: 1900-1960

Oct. 9-10 2014 Invited talk for the conférence internationale, Images environnementales globales: nouvelles perspectives, Espace Isadora Duncan, Paris-Meudon, France, Imag(e)ining Technocultures: Big picture framings

Oct. 17, 2014 Colby Family Weekend: STS Program, 4:00 pm, Lovejoy 100, Anne Louise Beck (1896-1982): Bringing Bergen Methods to the US. The most important scientist you have never heard about.

Oct. 24, 2014 Rotman Institute of Philosophy, London, Ontario, Candada, Invited talk for Climate Modelling and the Epistemology of Climate Change, 9:00 am-5:00 pm, Ivey-Spencer Leadership Centre, Dynamic climatology: Historical perspectives on shape-shifting nouns

 

 

September Events

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Sept. 25, 2014 Colby College, Dean’s lunchtime talk, 12 noon, Miller Library, Entreprenours of Atmospheric Research, 1900-1960

Sept. 26, 2014 Rutgers University, Department of Environmental Science, 2:30 pm in ENRS Room 223, “Everything Atmospheric, Everywhere, Always” A History of Atmospheric Research 1900-1960

Atmospheric Science

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The year 1957 marked a sea change in the transition from meteorology to atmospheric science and from charismatic leadership to committee work, corporate organization and state sponsorship.

From new book MS…

Fixing the Sky, Japanese edition

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Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.  Japanese edition, Shinobu Onizawa, transl.  Tokyo: Kinokunya, 2012.

Fleming, Travel Schedule 2012

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Jan. 17-21, Potsdam, Germany, Pictur(e)ing Climate

Jan. 22-26, New Orleans, American Meteorological Society, Harry Wexler lecture, book award

Feb. 2-3, Boston, Colby Trustees

April 5-6, Grinnell College, Iowa, “Fixing the Sky” for All-College Convocation

April 25-27, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, “Fixing the Sky” sponsored by History and Sociology of Technology, Economics, and Public Policy

May 8, MIT, Cambridge, MA, “Fixing the Sky” for all-Institute MIT Energy Initiative

May 13-17, Mainz, Germany, Geoengineering

June 25-29, Manchester, UK, Cold War/ Blue Planet, Keynote lecture at Imperial War Museum, North

June 30-July 7, Manchester, UK

July 6, London, Anglo-American IHR, Ancients and Moderns

July 13, Fort Collins, Colorado State University banquet speaker 50th anniversary of atmospheric science.

Aug. 5-11, Washington, DC, IPCC Working group III AR5

Oct. 2, Orono, Geddes Simpson Memorial Lecture at the University of Maine, Fixing the Sky

Oct. 4-7, Copenhagen, Denmark, SHOT — roundtable on comedy

Oct. 11-16, Washington, DC, Smithsonian Grand Challenges panel on The Anthropocene: Planet Earth in the Age of Humans

Nov. 15-18, San Diego, HSS — session on comedy, invited lecture on Harry Wexler and the Emergence of Atmospheric Science

Dec. 10-13, Paris — dissertation defense at L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

[Jan. 6-10, 2013] Austin, TX — American Meteorological Society

Fixing the Sky wins two major book awards

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James Rodger Fleming, Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control (Columbia University Press, 2010) has received best book prizes from both the Society for the History of Technology and the American Meteorological Society.  Here are the details: [Read more…] about Fixing the Sky wins two major book awards