I have presented my research at a variety of conferences, reaching natural scientists and gegraphers as well as historians and science studies scholars.
Association of American Geographers
"The Ever-Changing Weatherman: Representing Technical Authority in 20 th Century America." March 9, 2006, Chicago, Illinois.
American Meteorological Society
"Comic Strips, Military Training, and Early TV Weather." January 13, 2009, Phoenix, AZ.
"Finding the Friendly Skies: Airline Meteorology, 1919-1941." January 22, 2008, New Orleans, LA.
"Aviation, World War II, and the Reformation of American Meteorological Culture." January 13, 2005, San Diego, California.
"Carl-Gustaf Rossby and the Development of Aeronautical Meteorology." January 13, 2004. Seattle, Washington.
American Society for Environmental History
(Scheduled) " Building an Operational Environmental Surveillance System: Upper Air Forecasting in the United States 1919-1939," March 13, 2010, Portland, OR.
Climate Change Science, Environmental Challenges, and Cultural Anxiety: Historical Perspectives
"Where is the Dust Bowl in American Meteorology? Explaining a Curious Absence." April 3, 2009, Colby College, Waterville, ME.
History of Science Society
(Scheduled) "Science Most Attenuated: The Entertaining and Educational Development of Television Weather Cartoons," November 22, 2009, Phoenix, AZ.
"Comics in the TV Weather Report: Tracing the Visual Style of Contemporary Science's Most Popular Genre." History of Science Society Annual Meeting, November 8, 2008, Pittsburgh, PA. (Poster)
"A Science and Industry of the Air: Airline Meteorology, 1919-1941." November 3, 2007, Crystal City, VA.
"Ways of Knowing the Weather: Aviation, University Education, and the Development of Digital Computing." November 2005, Minneapolis, MN.
International Commission for History of Meteorology
"Keeping Meteorology Masculine: The American Meteorological Society's Response to TV 'Weather Girls' in the 1950s," May 29, 2008, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
"American Meteorological Culture during World War II." July 7, 2004. Polling, Germany.
Making Science Global
"The Spitsbergen School: Polar Aviation and Geophysical Meteorology between World War I and World War II," October 31, 2007, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Mephistos
"Ways of Knowing the Weather: American Meteorological Culture and the Mass Production of Atmospheric Knowledge." March 2005, Brown University, Providence, RI.
Polar Gateways
"Contextualizing the Second International Polar Year: Early Arctic Aviation and the Bergen School of Meteorology," January 23, 2008, Barrow, AK. (Presented remotely)
Society for Social Studies of Science
"Weather Modification: Trust, Science and Civic Epistemology." August 27, 2004. Paris, France.
STS Graduate Student Conference (MIT-Cornell-RPI)
"Building Information Technology Resources for the STS Community: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Recreation of the Guide to the History of Science." February 2005. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.