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Alexis Rider
History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
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History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
I primarily work on
Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Science
Earth and Environmental Sciences
About Me
My work asks how ice, an ephemeral and ubiquitous substance, has been deployed by diverse scientific disciplines to understand geologic timescales. Since the nineteenth century, questions of environmental permanence and vulnerability, stasis and catastrophe, and global and local scales have been considered and debated through ice. In the nineteenth century, naturalists developed a picture of the deep past of the planet, uncovering a world which had passed through radically different Ice Ages; in the twentieth century, climate scientists projected the planet’s potential future, modeling change based on data and information extracted from ice cores. In following ice, this project thus follows the development of earth system sciences, and asks how the time of ice has become central to understandings of longue durée global environmental change.
Prior coming to Penn, I studied at The New School for Social Research on a Fulbright Scholarship, completing my MA in Liberal Studies. Between my undergraduate and graduate degrees, I worked at the New Zealand Parliament for Maori Affairs and lived and studied in Paris.
In 2017, I am took part in an expeditionary residency program, The Arctic Circle, where I spent two weeks sailing the high north with artists and scientists on a 100-year old barquentine tall ship.
My Abstracts
1.
Interglacial Victorians: Ice And The Natural End Of Time
Speaking Engagement
1. Science In The Nineteenth Century
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26 Jul, 2019
Topics
Earth and Environmental Sciences
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