Doctoral Dissertation Research: Ecological Science and Natural Resource Management in the United States

自20世纪下半叶以来，生态学，即对有机体及其环境的研究，一直是全球政治危机的核心，这些危机涉及是否以及如何管理物种、材料浪费、碳排放和获得自然资源。像生态学这样的田野科学已经并将继续塑造我们对其他物种、人类本性和物质世界的理解。这项关于美国生态科学发展的历史性研究将探讨最初出于审美和文化原因而留出的荒野地区是如何被重新谈判成为生态系统保护区的，以及对生态系统是什么及其功能的理解如何影响对濒危和入侵物种的管理。科学史和科学技术研究最有用的功能之一是，更清楚地说明构建理解自然世界的框架不可避免地伴随着隐藏的假设。这个项目将提供这种实用程序。研究结果将发布在康奈尔大学的eCommons上，并通过科学美国人博客与公众分享。

Since the second half of the 20th century, ecology, the study of organisms and their environments, has been central to global political crises over whether and how to manage species, material waste, carbon emissions, and access to natural resources. Field sciences like ecology have shaped and continue to shape our understandings of other species, human nature, and the physical world. This historicalstudy of the development of ecological science in the US will address how wilderness areas, originally set aside for aesthetic and cultural reasons, were re-negotiated into ecosystem protection areas and how understandings of what an ecosystem is and how it functions effect the management of endangered and invasive species.One of the most useful functions of the history of science, and science and technologystudies, is to make clearer the hidden assumptions that inevitably accompany the construction of frameworks for understanding the natural world. This project is will provide that kind of utility. Results will be published and made available on Cornells eCommons, and shared with the public via a Scientific American blog.