Colby College
4000 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901-8840
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James R. Fleming
Professor and Director of STS
Science, Technology, and Society- Program Director



Phone: 207-859-5881
Fax: 859-5846
Email:

Mailing Address:
5881 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8858

Semester Schedule
Education

B.S.Astronomy Pennsylvania State University 1971
M.S.Atmospheric ScienceColorado State University 1973
M.A.History of SciencePrinceton University 1984
Ph.D.History of SciencePrinceton University 1988
Areas of Expertise:
  • History of weather modification, climate control, and geoengineering
  • History of meteorology and climatology
  • Weather, climate and society
  • Public policy involving science and technology
  • Earth observations from space

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Professional Information


Series Editor, Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2006-07
AAAS Roger Revelle Fellow in Global Stewardship, 2006-07
Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, 2005-06
Founding President, International Commission on History of Meteorology meteohistory.org
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Current Research

CO2: A Molecular Biography
Harry Wexler (1911-1962) and the Emergence of Atmospheric Science
Creating and Sharing a Sense of Place in the Belgrade Lakes Region
Publications

Publications

Osiris 26, Klima (2011).
Fixing the Sky: The checkered history of weather and climate control. Columbia University Press, 2010.
Globalizing Polar Science. Palgrave, 2010.
Chemical Weather, Chemical Climate. forthcoming.
"The Climate Engineers," Wilson Quarterly (Spring 2007). link