BA Williams College 1983; PhD Clark University 1990
Environmental change, hazards and resources, environmental history
Climate and society, human-environment relationship, environmental history, New York State, Russia
Americans and Their Weather: A History (Oxford University Press, 2000); Human Impact on the Earth (Cambridge University Press, 1996); "Why Indoor Climate Changes" (Climatic Change, 2002); "The Perfectionists and the Weather: The Oneida Community's Quest for Meteorological Utopia, 1848-1879" (Environmental History 2002); "Human-Environment Relations" (International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2002)
Associate, Belfer Center, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 1997-2003; Research Associate, Clark University 1987-1996