Hello @HalifaxSocial tooters! During the Bird Migration, I went to Climate Justice - lovely folks there but I wanted to see and hear more about #Halifax & #NovaScotia.

If you missed my previous introductory toot, I'm in #Dartmouth NS, landing here from the UK in 2019. I'll post thoughts & 📸 about #nature, #botany #insects #inaturalist, #landscape, #NSpoli, #natureconnectedness, #enveducation, #envjust, with the odd #miksang pic.

If you are really lucky, I might read you some #VogonPoetry.

#introduction - Hello, I am a postdoc at the Deutsches Museum in Munich & a lecturer at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. My broader research interests center on the intersections of #envhist #histtech #histsci #envtech #envjust #envhum.

Most recent books: “The Birth of #Geoengineering. Large-Scale Engineering Projects in the Early Stage of the #Anthropocene” (Wallstein 2021) & “Beyond the Lab and the Field. #Infrastructures as Places of #Knowledge Production” (co-ed. Eike-Christian Heine; Univ. of Pittsburgh Press 2022)

My current project deals with the history of #creosote and railway #maintenance cultures. The material history of this coal tar oil – used until today for wood impregnation of railway ties & utility poles – combines research perspectives from the #histtech (such as on #maintenance and #repair) with #envhist and #materialhistory. Its name is connected today with dozens of contaminated land sites, tons of hazardous waste, and burning #environmentaljustice issues.