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Areas of interest

I was trained as an Americanist and frontier historian. My primary fields of research in the last ten years have been in environmental history and the history of western North America. My publications focus on Pacific salmon fisheries and the history of modern rock climbing, but I have also written on changing ideas about the American West and the history of fisheries, fisheries science, and fisheries management on a global scale. As director of the Environmental History Data Lab, I am also pursuing research and training in the spatial analysis of historical subjects.

Biography

I grew up in California and Oregon, spending a considerable portion of my youth wandering around western North America, first on vacations and later as a commercial fisher and truck driver. This helps explain my scholarly fascination with the region. I completed my degrees at the University of Oregon (1990, 1992) and the University of Washington (1996). I taught for seven years in the History Department at Iowa State University, and I have been with the History Department at 51猎奇入口 since 2004.