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James R. Fleming
Professor and Director of STS
Science, Technology, and Society



Phone: 207-859-5881
Fax: 859-5868
Email:
jfleming@colby.edu

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 science and technology
  • Science, technology and society
  • Weather and climate
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    Professional Information

    Editor, Osiris 26, Climate and Cultural Anxiety
    Editor, History of Meteorology
    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
    Biosketch
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    Current Research

    Fixing the Sky: The checkered history of weather and climate control. Book under contract with Columbia University Press.

    Publications

    Publications

    “The Pathological History of Weather and Climate Modification: Three cycles of promise and hype,” Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 37, no. 1 (2006): 3-25. link

    "The Climate Engineers," Wilson Quarterly (Spring 2007). link

    The Callendar Effect. The life and work of Guy Stewart Callendar (1898-1964), the scientist who established the carbon dioxide theory of climate change. Boston: American Meteorological Society, 2007.

    Climate Change and Anthropogenic Greenhouse Warming, 1824-1995: A selection of key articles, with interpretive essays. National Science Foundation, National Science Digital Library, 2008. link

    Earth Observations from Space: The First 50 Years of Scientific Achievements. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 2008. link