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

该项目调查了苏必利尔湖盆地有毒采矿污染物的动员。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，包括该地区的印第安人进行接触。研究者是一位著名的环境历史学家，他之前的工作涉及多个学科，并引起了媒体的极大兴趣；她有一个关系网，包括一位纪录片制片人和相关的利益相关者团体。该项目将产生一种环境历史的叙述，并有可能与技术、文化和社会的重要问题重叠。它将引起公民科学家、众多学者和普通公众的兴趣。该项目最重要的广泛影响是，它很可能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.