Transcontinental geophysical survey (35-39 N.) geologic map from the East Coast of the United States to 87 W. longitude

During the Age of Mass Migration more than four million Italians reached the United States. The experience of Italians in US cities has been widely explored: however, the study of how migrants adjusted in relation to nature and food production is a relatively recent concern. Due to a mixture of racism and fear of political radicalism, Italians were deemed to be undesirable immigrants in East Coast cities and American authorities had long perceived Italian immigrants as unclean, unhealthy and carriers of diseases. As a flipside to this narrative, Italians were also believed to possess a ‘natural’ talent for agriculture, which encouraged Italian diplomats and politicians to propose the establishment of agricultural colonies in the southern United States. In rural areas Italians could profit from their agricultural skills and finally turn into ‘desirable immigrants’. The aim of this paper is to explore this ‘emigrant colonialism’ through the lens of environmental history, comparing the Italian and US diplomatic and public discourses on the potential and limits of Italians’ agricultural skills.

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Ocean data portals: Performing a new infrastructure for ocean governance

Environment and Planning D Society and Space ◽

10.1177/0263775818822829 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 484-503 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Noëlle Boucquey ◽

Kevin St. Martin ◽

Luke Fairbanks ◽

Lisa M Campbell ◽

Sarah Wise

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Spatial Planning ◽

East Coast ◽

The United States ◽

Marine Spatial Planning ◽

Critical Cartography ◽

Third Phase ◽

Ocean Governance ◽

The World ◽

New Infrastructure

We are currently in what might be termed a “third phase” of ocean enclosures around the world. This phase has involved an unprecedented intensity of map-making that supports an emerging regime of ocean governance where resources are geocoded, multiple and disparate marine uses are weighed against each other, spatial tradeoffs are made, and exclusive rights to spaces and resources are established. The discourse and practice of marine spatial planning inform the contours of this emerging regime. This paper examines the infrastructure of marine spatial planning via two ocean data portals recently created to support marine spatial planning on the East Coast of the United States. Applying theories of ontological politics, critical cartography, and a critical conceptualization of “care,” we examine portal performances in order to link their organization and imaging practices with the ideological and ontological work these infrastructures do, particularly in relation to environmental and human community actors. We further examine how ocean ontologies may be made durable through portal use and repetition, but also how such performances can “slip,” thereby creating openings for enacting marine spatial planning differently. Our analysis reveals how portal infrastructures assemble, edit, and visualize data, and how it matters to the success of particular performances of marine spatial planning.

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The use of quantitative polymerase chain reaction for the detection and enumeration of the harmful algaAureococcus anophagefferensin environmental samples along the United States East Coast

Limnology and Oceanography Methods ◽

10.4319/lom.2003.1.92 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 92-102 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Linda C. Popels ◽

S. Craig Cary ◽

David A. Hutchins ◽

Rachel Forbes ◽

Frances Pustizzi ◽

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Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Polymerase Chain Reaction ◽

Environmental Samples ◽

East Coast ◽

Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction ◽

The United States ◽

Chain Reaction ◽

Polymerase Chain

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A Record of the Gempylid Fish Promethicthys promethus from off the East Coast of the United States

Copeia ◽

10.2307/1439770 ◽

1960 ◽

Vol 1960 (4) ◽

pp. 357

Author(s):

Warren F. Rathjen

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

East Coast ◽

The United States

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