Description: "In Capturing Glaciers, Dani Inkpen examines the many ways scientists have made and used photographs of receding glaciers and how the meanings and evidential value of such images evolved over time. This project sheds light on the challenges of conducting research about climate change, the challenges of enacting social change around environmental problems, and the ways that well-intentioned scientists can still replicate social inequalities"--
Brief description: Paul Sutter is series editor for the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series. He is professor of history at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has published five books, including Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South (Georgia, 2015) and Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (Washington, 2005).
Review Quotes:
"[A] nuanced history of glaciology in North America more generally as well as a history of visualization and of the changing nature of scientific evidence. . . . Environmental historians should read it because it is good history of science. Historians of science should read it as an example of how they can add to environmental history."
-- "Environmental History"