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 RESEARCH RESOURCES: INDIANA DUNES, CALUMET REGION, THE GREAT LAKES

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The Congress welcomes submission and presentation of your ongoing environmental theory and criticism, but we also want to encourage the concrete application of your thinking to the Dunes and Lakes. To this end, we are posting public links and research citations for  materials focused on the region. Please send suggestions and recommendations to jarthos [at] indiana [dot] edu about primary and secondary research in regional environmental history, culture, and criticism as we continue to build this resource page.

henry cowles

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Cowles Bog, Indiana: A Study in Historical Geography & the History of Ecology

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“Ecological Relations of the Vegetation on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan.” Botanical Gazette 27 (1899): 95–117, 167–202, 281–308, 361–391. Cowles’s PhD dissertation.

 

“The Physiographic Ecology of Chicago and Vicinity: A Study of the Origin, Development, and Classification of Plant Societies.” Botanical Gazette 31 (1901): 73–108, 145–182. Published also, with an accompanying map and minor changes to the text, as The Plant Societies of Chicago andVicinity. The Geographic Society of Chicago Bulletin, no. 2. Chicago: The Geographic Society of Chicago, 1901.

 

Cittadino, Eugene. “‘A Marvelous Cosmopolitan Preserve’: The Dunes, Chicago, and the Dynamic Ecology of Henry Cowles.” Perspectives on Science 1 (1993): 320–359.

 

Engel, J. Ronald. Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in the Indiana Dunes. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1983. Chapter 4, “The Birthplace of Ecology.”

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CALUMET ARCHIVES

Digitized Collections in the CRA (includes access to US Steel Gary Works and Inland Steel photographs

https://libguides.iun.edu/archives/CRA/digitized

 

Environmental Collections

https://cra.iun.edu/lists/index.shtml#environmentalhistory

 

Specific Collections of Interest:

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INDIANA DUNES BEHAVIOR

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Todd A. Thompson, Erin P. Argyilan, Matt R. Johnson, G. William Monaghan, "Stratigraphic and Sedimentologic Investigation of Collapse Features in Mont Baldy Dune in the Indiana Dunes National Park, Journal of Great Lakes Research 47 (2021).

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Todd A. Thompson, "Dune and Beach Complex and Back-Barrier Sediments along the Southeastern Shore of Lake Michigan; Cowles Bog area of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore," Geological Society of America, 1990.

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Erin P. Argyilan, Todd A. Thompson, et al, "Lake Level, Shoreline, and Dune Behavior Along the Indiana Southern Shore of Lake Michigan, The Geological Society of America Field Guide 51.

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Todd A. Thompson and Steve J. Baedke, "Strand-Plain Evidence for Late Holocene Lake-Level Variations in Lake Michigan, Indiana, Geological Society of America Bulletin, June 1997,

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