History of Meteorology Featured at HSS 2009

The History of Science Society's 2009 Annual Meeting will feature several papers of interest to ICHM members, including:

• Universalizing Nature: Prediction and Observation in Renaissance Astrometeorology, Darin Hayton, Haverford College
• Turbulent Times: Pilots, Physicists, and the Problem of Scale, Daniela Helbig, Harvard University
• Science Most Attenuated: The Entertaining and Educational Development of Television Weather Cartoons, Roger Turner, University of Pennsylvania
• The Standardization of Space: Cartographic Grids and the Politics of Computation, William Rankin, Harvard University
• The Air-Pump at the Princely Court: Natural Philosophy or Useful Technology? Peter Schimkat, Independent Scholar (Poster session)
• Heroes in the Age of Polar Aviation, 1925-1930, Marionne Cronin, University of Toronto

There are also sessions featuring ICHM members, such as

Notes from Underground: Digging Through Narratives in the Earth Sciences
Commentator: Mott Greene, University of Puget Sound

Accounts of the New Madrid Earthquakes, Conevery Bolton Valencius, Harvard University
“Did You Feel It?” Earthquake Spotters in the Nineteenth-Century Alps, *Deborah Coen, Barnard College
The Chilean Earthquake and the Pulse of the Earth, Matthias Dörries, University of Strasbourg
Serpentine Histories: Thinking About Assembling California, Jon Christensen, Stanford University

And

Producing Knowledge for Policy: Research Program Planning and Scientific Assessments
Chair: Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego

Collapse and Translation: How Scientists Assess the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, *Jessica O'Reilly, Princeton University & University of California, San Diego
Constructing Science and Politics in Global Affairs, Clark Miller, Arizona State University
Producing Knowledge for Policy: Ozone Depletion Science and Scientific Assessments, Keynyn Brysse, Princeton University and University of California San Diego
The Past, Present, and Future of West Antarctica: Research on the Behavior of a Continent, 1957-1990, William Thomas, American Institute of Physics

 

SPECIAL SESSION: American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe—‘Meet the Author’
Chair: Mary Jo Nye, Oregon State University at Corvallis
Commentator: John G. Krige, Georgia Tech

Science and Cold War Secrecy: The Contents of Cold War Science, Ronald E. Doel, Florida State University
The Post WW2 Americanization of International Science and the Transnationalization of American Science, Zuoyoe Wang, Harvey Mudd College & Pomoma College, CA
The Contents of Cold War Science? Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego
Resistance to American Hegemony: Neutralizing Science in Postwar European Scientific Organizations, Bruno J. Strasser, Yale University
European Science and US Philanthropy: The Rockefeller Foundation Between Communism and Anti-Communism, *Pnina G. Abir-Am, Brandeis University & Scientific Legacies