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Contributors grace s. brush is a professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore , Maryland. edward f. connor is a professor of biology at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California. william cronon is the Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History , Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. philip d. curtin is a professor emeritus in the Department of History , the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. carville earle is the Carl O. Sauer Professor of Geography, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. george w. fisher is a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. ronald hoffman is director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and professor of history at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. warren r. hofstra is a professor of history at Shenandoah University , Winchester, Virginia. victor s. kennedy is a professor at the Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, Maryland. john e. kutzbach is a professor at the Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Madison. james f. lynch was a zoologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, before his death in 1998. henry m. miller is director of research at Maryland’s state museum, Historic St. Mary’s City, St. Mary’s City, Maryland. robert d. mitchell is a professor of geography, retired, in the Department of Geography, University of Maryland, College Park. kent mountford is a senior scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chesapeake Bay Program Office, Annapolis, Maryland . donald w. pritchard was a professor and associate dean at the Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook until 1988, when he retired. He died in 1999. james l. reveal is a professor in the Department of Botany, University of Maryland, College Park. jerry r. schubel is president of the New England Aquarium, Boston, Massachusetts. g. terry sharrer is curator of health sciences at the Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. timothy silver is a professor of history at Appalachian State University , Boone, North Carolina. david w. steadman is associate curator of ornithology in the Department of Natural Sciences, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville. douglas h. ubelaker is curator of physical anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington , D.C. lorena s. walsh is a historian at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation , Williamsburg, Virginia. thompson webb iii is a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. anne e. yentsch is an associate professor in the History Department, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, Georgia. xiv Contributors ...

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