Standard Research Grant: Historical and Spatial Aspects of the Migration of Toxic Iron-Mining Contaminants into the Lake Superior Basin

本项目调查苏必利尔湖上级盆地有毒采矿污染物的流动。调查员将进行档案研究和口述历史访谈，她将开发一个地理空间数据库。 她计划将她的历史研究与当代政策和法规问题联系起来，并与当地社区，包括该地区的美洲原住民进行接触。调查员是一位著名的环境历史学家，其以前的工作借鉴了多个学科，并引起了媒体的极大兴趣;她有一个联系网络，包括纪录片制片人和相关利益相关者团体。该项目将产生一个环境历史的叙述与技术，文化和社会的重要问题的重叠的潜力。它将引起公民科学家、广大学者和公众的兴趣。该项目最重要的更广泛的影响是，它很可能会影响当代的政策和法律制定。

This project investigates the mobilization of toxic mining contaminants in the Lake Superior basin. The investigator will conduct archival research and oral-history interviews, and she will develop a geo-spatial database. She plans to link her historical research with contemporary policy and regulation issues, and to engage with local communities, including Native Americans in the region.The investigator is a well-known environmental historian whose previous work has drawn on multiple disciplines and generated significant media interest; she has a network of contacts that includes a documentary filmmaker and relevant stakeholder groups. The project will produce a narrative of environmental history with the potential for overlap with important questions of technology, culture, and society. It will be of interest to citizen scientists, a wide-array of scholars, and the general public. The most important broader impact of the project is that it might very well influence contemporary policy and law-making.