Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Most of the research for this book was completed while I was a student in MIT’s Doctoral Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society. During that period and since, Harriet Ritvo has been a thoughtful, rigorous , and generous advisor and friend. Her scholarship on human-animal relationships profoundly shaped this book, as it has many others. I am also indebted to Meg Jacobs and Stefan Helmreich, the other members of my dissertation committee, for their support and constructive criticism over the course of this project. Financial support for this project was generously provided by a variety of organizations. In addition to stipendiary support from the HASTS Program, MIT’s Kenan Sahin Presidential Fellowship, the Martin Family Foundation, and Resources for the Future, I received research and travel funding from the HASTS Program, the MIT Center for International Studies, the MIT KellyDouglas Fund, the Society for the History of Technology, and the National Science Foundation. The revision of the book manuscript was completed during a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Harvard University Center for the Environment. The Harvard Department of the History of Science and my faculty host Janet Browne provided a welcoming institutional home during the fellowship period. In the course of this project many scientists, engineers, and conservationists answered my phone calls and e-mails, gave me tours of their field sites and laboratories , provided photographs and other documentation of their work, and submitted to more or less formal interviews. Even those whose names do not appear in the final version of the book provided insights that helped shape the work as a whole. I thank Robin Baird, Timothy Beaulieu, Jean Bourassa, Harry Brower Jr., Marianna Childress and the staff of Collecte Localisation Satellites, William W. Cochran, Lance Craighead, Frederick C. Dean, Jeff Foster, Philippe viii Acknowledgments Gaspar, Charlotte Girard, M. Bradley Hanson, Bridget Kenward and the staff of Biotrack, Robert E. Kenward, Valerian B. “Larry” Kuechle and the staff of Advanced Telemetry Systems, Clarence Lehman and the staff of the Cedar Creek Natural History Area, Rexford D. Lord Jr., Greg Marshall, L. David Mech, Hemanta R. Mishra, Christian Ortega, Arlo Raim, Philippe Roques, Naomi Rose, Glen and Beverly Sanderson and their daughter Laurie Sanderson , John C. Seidensticker, Donald B. Siniff, George Swenson, Michel Taillade, John R. Tester, Fernando Ugarte, Dwain W. Warner, and William Woodward. The assistance of numerous archivists and librarians was vital to this project , particularly those of the American Museum of Natural History in New York; the Bibliothèque Centrale of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris; the Denver Public Library; the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Wildlife Research Center in Fort Collins, Colorado; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown , West Virginia; the Ernst Mayr Library at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology; the Illinois Natural History Society in Champaign, Illinois; the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul; Montana State University in Bozeman; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, Maryland, and Anchorage, Alaska; the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California; NMFS’s National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle, Washington; the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Patuxent, Maryland; the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California; the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC; the Tuzzy Consortium Library in Barrow, Alaska; the University of Alaska, Anchorage; the University of Alaska, Fairbanks ; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Montana, Missoula ; the University of Minnesota; the University of Washington; the University of Wisconsin; the University of Wyoming; the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts; and the Yellowstone National Park Heritage Research Center in Gardiner, Montana. Over the course of this book’s long gestation, many colleagues and friends have provided helpful comments, critiques, and conversations. I am especially grateful to Peter Alagona, Mark Barrow, Alexandre Benson, Laurel Braitman, Nicholas Buchanan, Candis Callison, Kieran Downes, Deborah Fitzgerald, Xaq Frohlich, Bernard Geoghegan, Shane Hamilton, Sabine Höhler, David Kaiser, Eben Kirksey, Shekhar Krishnan, Vincent Lépinay, Thomas Levenson, Leo Marx, Lisa Messeri, Natasha Myers, Sophia Roosth, Ryan Shapiro, Hanna Acknowledgments ix Rose Shell, Jenny Leigh Smith, Michaela Jane Thompson, William Turkel, Nick Wilding, Michael Wise, Rebecca Jane Woods, Sara Ann Wylie, and Anya Zilberstein. Finally, I am grateful to family and friends in Minneapolis, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, DC...