Instructor Proposed Research Topics
This is a list of 25 possible research topics, a rough estimate of their temporal scope,
and a list of preliminary sources (by no means exhaustive) that may help you get
started. Some topics have enough material for multiple papers (I’ve indicated which
ones), but, generally, I presume that everyone will choose a different subject to
pursue. The particulars of the topic are up to you to decide, and within one of these
broader subjects you will develop a more specific research question. On the
syllabus you’ll see that you have to begin the process of topic selection immediately,
so, during the first week, look over this list and pick two subjects that interest you
most. For the second week you’re asked to write a couple short paragraphs about
these two choices (including why they interest you, what you already know about
the subject, and a review of some source material), and from those preliminary
responses we’ll assign topics and start to focus in on a specific research question.
Good luck!
Sources for Everyone:
Phi Mu Fraternity, College Park: Special Collections, University of Maryland
Libraries (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1660 -- This is a collection of
Scientific/Technological/Environmental papers written by members of this
fraternity)
Maryland Manuscripts, College Park: Special Collections, University of Maryland
(You can use the card catalogue for a broader search of materials related to the
environment. For example, subjects include: parks, entomology, meteorology,
weather, climate, rivers, and Fishing-Maryland – Ask for assistance in the Maryland
Room)
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Archives, College Park: Special Collections, University of
Maryland Libraries (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1227 -- The
Chesapeake Bay Foundation has been involved in a wide range of environmental
issues since its inception in 1967, it might be worth checking out their finding aid to
see if any of their records are relevant to your chosen topic)
The Baltimore Sun, 1837-2008, McKeldin Microfilm AN41.16 .S8
**We may have access through Historical Newspapers (Proquest), I’ll find out what’s
available
The Washington Post, 1877-Present – Online via Research Port -- Historical
Newspapers (Proquest) – searchable
Use JSTOR, available under “databases” through the Research Port, for academic
articles related to your subject
List of Proposed Topics:
1. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) History
Timeline: 1912-Present
Sources: Elgin, Wade H, The early history of the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission, College Park, MD: Records of Phi Mu, University of Maryland at College
Park Libraries, 1926
Washington Suburban Sanitary District, Laws of the Washington Suburban Sanitary
District, Hyattsville, MD: WSSC Legal Department, 1968 (Call No. KFM1489 .W3 –
Maryland Room)
Washington Suburban Sanitary District, Wastewater Treatment: Reclaiming a Vital
Resource, Hyattsville, MD: Public Affairs Office Washington Suburban Sanitary
District, 1989(?)
2. Abel Wolman, Maryland’s Most Famous Sanitary Engineer
Timeline: 1937-1962
Sources: Hollander, Walter, Jr., Abel Wolman, His Life and Philosophy: An Oral
History, Chapel Hill, NC: Universal Print. & Pub. Co., 1981
Wolman, Abel, Water, Health, and Society: Selected Papers. Ed.Gilbert F. White,
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1969
3. The Interstate Commission of the Potomac River Basin
Timeline: 1940-Present
Sources: Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, Teamwork on the
Potomac: A Report on the Activities of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac
River Basin to Dwight D. Eisenhower, Washington, DC: The Commission, 1958
The Language of the Compact is Available at:
http://www.potomacriver.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&
id=79&Itemid=131
Eutrophication/Hypoxia and the Chesapeake Bay
Subtopics
4. Synthetic Fertilizers and Agricultural Runoff (2–3 students)
Timeline: 1945-Present
Sources: Hagy, James Dixon, Eutrophication, Hypoxia and Trophic Transport
Efficiency in Chesapeake Bay, College Park, MD: University of Maryland (PhD
Thesis), 2002 (Technical Paper)
International Symposium on Eutrophication, Eutrophication: Causes, Consequences,
Correctives: Proceedings of a Symposium, Washington DC, National Academy of
Sciences, 1969
Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station Records, College Park: Special Collections,
University of Maryland (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1676)
Note on Fertilizer -- in Series 4 Box 5 Folder 2 of Department of Horticulture Records,
College Park: Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries (Finding Aid:
http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1651)
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Archives, College Park: Special Collections, University of
Maryland Libraries (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1227)
Newcombe, Curtis L., Oxygen Poor Waters of the Chesapeake Bay, Solomons Islands,
MD: Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, 1938 (Maryland Room)
Robert Lamar Green papers, College Park: Special Collections, University of
Maryland Libraries (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1727)
5. Fossil Fuel Combustion and Atmospheric Deposition
Timeline: 1945-Present
Sources: Cantillo, Adriana, Trace Element Deposition Histories in the Chesapeake
Bay, College Park: University of Maryland (Dissertation), 1982
Helmut Landsberg Papers, College Park: Special Collections, University of Maryland
(Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1248)
(Speak with me for a personally compiled data set, and recommendations for
relevant sources – for example, the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act)
** Caution this subject tends to be more technical than most others
6. Phosphate Detergent Ban
Timeline: 1950-1987
Sources: Maryland, Water Management Administration. Division of Municipal
Compliance, Effect of phosphate detergent ban on municipal treatment plants in
Maryland, Baltimore: The Administration, 1987
Litke, David W., “Review of Phosphorous Control Measures in the United States and
their Effects on Water Quality,” Denver: USGS Water Resources Investigations
Report, 1999
Jones, Edgar R., and Susan D. Hubbard, “Maryland’s Phosphate Ban: History and
Early Results,” Water Pollution Control Federation, Vol.58, No.8, (August, 1986),
pp.816-822
See: http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/full_text_search/AllCRCDocs/94-54.htm -for a brief national narrative of the conflict (**note: the further reading list at the
end might be a great place to start source mining)
7. Pesticides in the Chesapeake Watershed
Timeline: Post WWII - Present
Sources: Department of Entomology records, College Park: Special Collections,
University of Maryland Libraries (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1417)
Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station Records, College Park: Special Collections,
University of Maryland (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1676)
Munson, Thomas O., and Robert J. Huggett, “Current Status of Research on the
Biological Effects of Pesticides in Chesapeake Bay,” Chesapeake Science, Vol.13,
Supplement 1, 1972, pp.S154-156
8. The Sierra Club Conservation/Preservation Activities in the Chesapeake
Region
Timeline: 1966-2004
Sources: Sierra Club, Maryland Chapter Archives, College Park: Special Collections,
University of Maryland Libraries (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1291)
Turner, Tom, Sierra Club: 100 Years of Protecting Nature, New York: Abrams, 1991
9. Tobacco Experimentation in Maryland/Socio-Environmental Effects
Timeline: 1888-1980 (possibly to the present)
Sources: Orman E. Street Papers, College Park: Special Collections University of
Maryland (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1391)
Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station Records, College Park: Special Collections,
University of Maryland (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1676)
Maryland State Board of Agriculture Report of Leaf Tobacco Sold Archives, College
Park: Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries (Finding Aid:
http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1293)
College of Agriculture records, College Park: Special Collections, University of
Maryland Libraries (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1647)
David Edward Brown papers, College Park: Special Collections, University of
Maryland Libraries (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1741)
10. Proto-Environmentalism, Municipal Housekeeping, and the Women’s Civic
League of Baltimore
Timeline: 1900-1960
Sources: Women’s Civic League, History of the Women’s Civic League of Baltimore,
1911-1961, Baltimore: Kings Brothers, 1961 (Call No. HQ1402 .W6 1961 – Maryland
Room)
Women’s Civic League, History of the Women’s Civic League of Baltimore, 1911-1936,
Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1937 (Call No. HQ1402 .W6 1937 – Maryland
Room)
Women’s Civic League History Committee, History of the Women’s Civic League,
Incorporated 1911, Baltimore: The League, 1925(?) (Call No. HQ1402 .W6 1925 –
Maryland Room)
Hoy, Suellen, Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness, New York: Oxford
University Press, 1995
Merse, C., G.L. Buckley, and C.G. Boone. “Street Trees and Urban Renewal: A
Baltimore Case Study,” The Geographical Bulletin Vol.50, No.2, (2009), pp.65-81
Hays, Samuel P., Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive
Conservation Movement 1890-1920, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999
11. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Modern Environmentalism in the
Region (2-4 Students)
Timeline: 1960s-Present
Sources: Chesapeake Bay Foundation Archives, College Park: Special Collections,
University of Maryland Libraries (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1227)
Central Atlantic Environment Center Archives, College Park: Special Collections,
University of Maryland Libraries (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1225)
Maryland Conservation Council Archives, College Park, Special Collections, University
of Maryland Libraries (In Historical Manuscripts – No Finding Aid Available,
Records from 1970-1986)
Maryland Wilderness Association Archives, College Park, Special Collections,
University of Maryland Libraries (In Historical Manuscripts – No Finding Aid
Available, Records from 1969-1974)
Baltimore Environmental Center Archives, College Park, Special Collections,
University of Maryland Libraries (In Historical Manuscripts – No Finding Aid
Available, Records from 1969-1994)
Elizabeth K. Hartline Papers, College Park, Special Collections, University of
Maryland Libraries (In Historical Manuscripts – No Finding Aid Available, Records
from 1951-2001 – A Preliminary List of Topics is available in the Maryland Room)
Polly Walkers Papers, College Park, Special Collections, University of Maryland
Libraries (In Historical Manuscripts – No Finding Aid Available, Records from 19721995)
William G. Wilson Papers, College Park, Special Collections, University of Maryland
Libraries (In Historical Manuscripts – No Finding Aid Available, Records from 19722006)
Gottlieb, Robert, Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American
Environmental Movement, New York: Island Press, 1994
Hays, Samuel P., Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the
United States, 1955-1985, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989
12. Urban/Suburban (Re)Development in Metro DC and/or Baltimore Areas
Timeline: 1900 – Present (With a focus on the second half the 20th century)
Sources: Anneke Davis Papers, College Park, Special Collections, University of
Maryland Libraries (In Historical Manuscripts – No Finding Aid Available, Records
from 1969-2004 – Focus on Baltimore Redevelopment)
Hyattsville Horticultural Society Archives, College Park, Special Collections,
University of Maryland Libraries (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1729)
Phi Mu Fraternity, College Park: Special Collections, University of Maryland
Libraries (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1660 -- This is a collection of
Scientific/Technological/Environmental papers written by members of this
fraternity)
Knepper, Cathy D., Greenbelt, Maryland: A Living Legacy of the New Deal, Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001
History of the Chesapeake Bay Fisheries
General Sources: Harry Clifton Byrd Papers, College Park: Special Collections,
University of Maryland Libraries (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1224)
Kenneth Grace Papers, College Park: Special Collections, University of Maryland
Libraries (In Historical Manuscripts – No Finding Aid Available, Records from 19131973)
Romeo Mansueti Papers, College Park: Special Collections, University of Maryland
Libraries (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1732)
Subtopics
13. Declining Oyster Population and Introduction of Foreign Species
Timeline: 1913-Present
Sources: Hedeen, Robert A, The Oyster: The Life and Lore of the Celebrated Bivalve,
Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1986
Keiner, Christine, The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland
Chesapeake Bay, Since 1880, Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2010
Ockershausen, Charles W., The History and Construction of Oyster Riggings on the
Chesapeake Bay, College Park: University of Maryland Archives, 1933
Truitt, Reginald V., Recent Oyster Researches on Chesapeake Bay, Solomons Islands,
MD: Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, 1931
Truitt, Reginald V., The Oyster and the Oyster Industry of Maryland, Baltimore: State
of Maryland Conservation Department, 1931
Yates, Charles C., Charts of Maryland Oyster Survey, Washington, DC: US Coast and
Geodetic Survey, 1913
Chesapeake Executive Council, Chesapeake Bay Oyster Management Plan, Annapolis,
MD: The Council, 1989
U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on
Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans (2001), Chesapeake Bay Oyster
Restoration, Management & Research: Oversight Field Hearing before the Subcommittee
on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife, and Oceans of the Committee on Resources, 107th
Congress, 1st sess., 22 October 2001, Washington, D.C.: GPO, 2002
(**Ask me for a wealth of other more contemporary sources)
14. Chesapeake Blue Crab Fisheries in Peril?
Timeline: Variable (from 1873-Present)
Sources: Ernst, Howard R., Chesapeake Bay Blues: Science Politics and the Struggle
to Say the Bay, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003
Chesapeake Bay Program, Draft: Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Management Plan,
Chesapeake Bay Program, 1994 (Call No. SH380.45.U5 D73 1994)
Tyler, Lloyd S., The Blue Crab Industry of the Chesapeake Bay: Technological
Developments from 1873-1983, College Park: University of Maryland (Dissertation),
1983
Warner, William, Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay,
Boston: Little, Brown, 1976
Maryland Conservation Department, Maryland’s Efforts to Save the Blue Crab of the
Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore: Kohn and Pollack, 1924
15. Wastewater Treatment (For example: Blue Plains and Greenbriar)
Timeline: 1938-Present
Sources: Rhea Cohen Papers, College Park, Special Collections, University of
Maryland Libraries (In Historical Manuscripts – No Finding Aid Available, Records
from 1965-1979)
“Plans Under Way To Expand Sewage Treatment Plan.” The Washington Post, 22 July
1945
“Sewage Plant Cost is Set At 8 Million: Engineers Submit Plans for Construction at
Blue Plains. D.C. Likely to Seek Preliminary Funds From PWA.” The Washington Post,
29 December 1933.
“Sewage Plant Perils Health; Too Small for Growing City.” The Washington Post, 29
October 1945.
Uman, Myron F., “Blue Plains: Saga of a Treatment Plant,” EPA Journal, Vol.20,
(1994), pp.20-21
Melosi, Martin, The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America, From Colonial
Times to the Present, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1999
Tarr, Joel, The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective,
Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 1996
16. Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Generation
Timeline: 1970s-Present
Sources: Central Atlantic Environment Center Archives, College Park: Special
Collections, University of Maryland Libraries (Finding Aid:
http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1225)
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Archives, College Park: Special Collections, University of
Maryland Libraries (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1227)
Heck, Kenneth L., Jr., Ecological Studies in the Middle Reach of the Chesapeake Bay,
Calvert Cliffs, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1987
Environmental Center, Martin Marietta Corporation, Summary of Findings: Calvert
Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant Aquatic Monitoring Program, Annapolis, MD: The Center,
1980
Lacy, Gail K., Thermal Plumes in the Vicinity of Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant,
1977-1978, Philadelphia: Academy of National Sciences of Philadelphia, 1979
Donnelly, Warren H., Effect of Calvert Cliffs and Other Court Decisions Upon Nuclear
Power in the United States, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1972
17. Piney Point Oil Refinery
Timeline: 1960s-Present
Sources: Chesapeake Bay Foundation Archives, College Park: Special Collections,
University of Maryland Libraries (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1227)
United States, National Transportation Safety Board, Rupture of Piney Point Oil
Pipeline and Release of Fuel Oil, Near Chalk Point, Maryland, April 7, 2000,
Washington, DC: National Transportation Safety Board, 2002
St. Mary’s County, MD, Commissioners’ Study Committee, Report to the Board of
County Commissioners, St. Mary’s County on the Proposed Steuart Facility, at Piney
Point, Maryland, Maryland: The Committee, 1968
18. Chesapeake Bay Bridge
Timeline: Post WWII-Present (Or focus on its Expansion from 1973-Onward)
Sources: Chesapeake Bay Foundation Archives, College Park: Special Collections,
University of Maryland Libraries (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1227)
Wingate, P.J., Before the Bridge, Reminisces by P.J. Wingate, Centreville, MD:
Tidewater Publishers, 1985
Thornton, Neal Blair, The Politics of the Bay Bridge-Tunnel, Ann Arbor, MI:
University Microfilms International, 1979
Hill, Robert White, The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel: The Eighth Wonder of the
World, New York: John Day Co., 1972
Schmidt, John Edward, A Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Proposed Chesapeake Bay
Bridge, College Park: University of Maryland (Dissertation), 1967
19. Endocrine Disruption in Chesapeake Region Fish and Wildlife
Timeline: (Primarily a contemporary issue, but with historical roots in wastewater
treatment alternatives, as well as changing water quality metrics and sociobehavioral practices – A word of caution, this topic is going to take effort at
historicization, and is heavy on technical language, so choose carefully, and see me for
a more periodical sources)
Sources: Pait, Anthony Steven, Reproductive Endocrine Disruption in the Killfish
Fundulus Heteroclitus in the Chesapeake Bay, College Park: University of Maryland
(Dissertation), 2001
United States Geological Survey, Investigations of Endocrine Disruption in Aquatic
Systems Associated with the National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program,
Reston, VA: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, USGS, 1998
McLachlan, John A., Environmental Hormones: The Scientific Basis of Endocrine
Disruption, New York: New York Academy of Science, 2001
Products in the Environment: Agents of Subtle Change” Environmental Health
Perspectives, Vol.107, Supplement 6, (Dec., 1999), pp.907-938
Cocke, William, "Male Fish Producing Eggs in Potomac River," National Geographic,
November 3, 2004, [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/11/
1103_041103_potomac_fish_2.html], Accessed: January 19, 2011
Hard W.L., Ovarian growth and ovulation in the mature Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus
Rathbun, Solomons Islands, MD: Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, 1942
20. Invasive Species in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (For example, Hydrilla
and the Northern Snakehead)
Timeline: 1970s-Present
Sources: Rilov, Gil, and Jeffrey A. Crooks, (eds), Biological Invasions in Marine
Ecosystems: Ecological, Management, and Geographic Perspectives, Berlin: Springer,
2009 (Pay particular attention to the section by: Paul Fofonoff, Gregory Ruiz, Anson
Hines, Brian Steves, and James Carlton, entitled: Four Centuries of Biological
Invasions in Tidal Waters of the Chesapeake Bay Region)
Dolin, Eric J., Snakehead: A Fish Out of Water, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books,
2003
Hurley, Linda M., Impact of Harvesting Hydrilla Verticillata on the Fish Communities
of the Tidal Freshwater Portion of the Potomac River, College Park: University of
Maryland (Dissertation), 1989
United States Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, Hydrilla in the Potomac
River and Tributaries: Final State Design Memorandum and Environmental Impact
Statement, Baltimore: The Corps, 1986
Rybicki, Nancy B., United States Geological Survey, Hydrilla Verticillata in the Tidal
Potomac River, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, 1983-1984, Denver:
U.S. Dept of the Interior, USGS, 1985
21. The Degradation of the Anacostia and the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative
(Could include the Environmental Justice Movement)
Timeline: Late 19th and 20th Centuries (or some portion thereof)
Sources: Hutchinson, Louise. The Anacostia Story: 1608-1930, Washington:
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1977
Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, Anacostia: The Other River,
Rockville, MD: The Commission, 1988
Wennersten, John. Anacostia: The Death & Life of an American River. Baltimore:
Chesapeake Book Company, 2008.
Williams, Brett. "A River Runs Through Us." American Anthropologist, Vol.103, no.2,
(June, 2001), pp.409-431
Lapp, Joe. Kenilworth: A DC Neighborhood By the Anacostia River. Washington, DC:
Humanities Council of Washington D.C., 2006
Wu, Jinsong, River, Waterfront, and Architecture: A River Culture Museum on the
Anacostia Waterfront, College Park: University of Maryland, 1997 (Has
architectural plans, but read the notes and try to see what
community/environmental values the designer intended to evoke)
United States, National Capital Planning Commission, The Urban River: A Staff
Proposal for Waterfront Development in the District of Columbia, Washington, DC:
Government Printing Office, 1972
United States, National Capital Planning Commission, Shoreline Acquisition and
Development Policies and Programs, Washington, DC: The Commission, 1976
United States, Army Corps of Engineers, Anacostia River Basin, District of Columbia
and Maryland, Washington, DC: The Corps, 1946 (Flood Control Plans)
District Department of the Environment, Anacostia 2032: Plan for a Fishable and
Swimmable Anacostia River, George S Hawkins (ed.), Washington, DC: Government
Printing Office, 2008
Gillette, Howard Jr., Between Justice and Beauty: Race, Planning, and the Failure of
Urban Policy in Washington, D.C., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1995
** Note: The source base for this topic would be significantly increased by a
visit to the Martin Luther King Jr. Library in the District of Columbia. If you
are considering choosing this topic, talk to me beforehand so I can be certain
that you have the appropriate information to undertake off-campus research
22. Impervious Surface Cover and Urban Runoff in the Chesapeake Bay Region
Timeline: 1950s-Present
Sources: Ealy, C.D., J. R. Weider, and R. F. Mueller, Environmental Aspects of Run-off
and Siltation in the Anacostia Basin from Hyperaltitude Photographs, Greenbelt, Md:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Goddard Space Flight Center, 1973
(Has to be ordered)
United States, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, After the Storm,
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2003
United States, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, National
Management Measures to Control Nonpoint Source Pollution from Urban Areas.
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2005.
Ferguson, Bruce K., Porous Pavements, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2005
Frazer, Lance, "Paving Paradise: The Peril of Impervious Surfaces," Environmental
Health Pespectives, Vol.113, no.7, (July 2005), pp.A457-A462.
District Department of the Environment, Anacostia 2032: Plan for a Fishable and
Swimmable Anacostia River, George S Hawkins (ed.), Washington, DC: Government
Printing Office, 2008
Gillette, Howard Jr., Between Justice and Beauty: Race, Planning, and the Failure of
Urban Policy in Washington, D.C., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1995
** Pay Particular Attention to Freeway/Parking Lot development, there are a
number of great articles from the Washington Post, etc. that I can share with
you.
23. Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) and the Washington D.C. Navy Yard
Superfund Site
Timeline: Post-WWII-Present
Sources: Hwang, Hyun-Min, and Gregory D. Foster, “Characterization of Polycyclic
Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Urban Stormwater Runoff Flowing into the Tidal Anacostia
River, Washington, DC, USA.” Environmental Pollution, Vol.140, (2006), pp.416-426
Anacostia Watershed Toxics Alliance and Anacostia Watershed Restoration Committee,
Charting a Course Toward Restoration: A Toxic Chemical Management Strategy for the
Anacostia River, 2004, [http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/book_shelf/1046_
Management_Plan.pdf], Accessed: January 19, 2011
United States Department of Health and Human Services: Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry, Public Health Assessment: Washington Navy Yard, Washington,
DC: Government Printing Office, 2002
Farham, F.E., and J. Mundell, History and Descriptive Guide of the U.S. Navy Yard,
Washington D.C., Washington, DC: Gibson Bros, Printers and Bookbinders, 1894
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry’s Toxicological Profile for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons,
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1995
Marolda, Edward J., The Washington Naval Yard: An Illustrated History, Washington,
DC: Naval Historical Center, 1999
Peck, Taylor, Round-shot to Rockets: A History of the Washington Navy Yard and U.S.
Naval Gun Factory, Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1949
24. Chesapeake Bay Agreements (1983, 1987, 2000) (2 students)
Timeline: 1970s-Present
Sources: Chesapeake Bay Foundation Archives, College Park: Special Collections,
University of Maryland Libraries (Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1227)
1983 Chesapeake Bay Agreement, Annapolis, MD: Chesapeake Bay Program, 1983
1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement, Norfolk, VA: Chesapeake Bay Program, 1987
Chesapeake 2000, Annapolis, MD: Chesapeake Bay Program, 2000
Chesapeake Bay Commission, “History of the Commission,” November 7, 2008
[http://www.chesbay.state.va.us/history.html] Accessed: January 19, 2011
Chesapeake Bay Commission, The Cost of a Clean Bay: Assessing Funding Needs
Throughout the Watershed, Annapolis, MD: The Commission, 2003
Doyle, Mary and Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, "The Culture of Collaboration in the
Chesapeake Bay Program," In Large Scale Ecosystem Restoration: Five Case Studies
from the United States, Mary Doyle and Cynthia A. Drew (eds.), Washington, DC:
Island Press, 2008, pp.175-203
Chesapeake Implementation Committee, The Chesapeake Bay Program: A
Commitment Renewed: Restoration Progress and the Course Ahead under the 1987
Agreement, Annapolis, MD: Chesapeake Implementation Committee, 1988
25. Water Infrastructure and Sewering the Chesapeake Region (Focus on early
20th Century, especially under the auspices of the New Deal)
Timeline: 1890-1945
Sources: Work Projects Administration in Maryland Records, College Park: Special
Collections, University of Maryland Libraries (Finding Aid:
http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1743)
Water Resources Commission of Maryland, Report of Operations 1933 to 1938.
General Requirements and Regulations, Annapolis: Maryland State Printing, 1938
Water Resource Commission of Maryland, Report setting forth recommendations as
to Policy, Legislation and Methods of Financing for the Preservation of the Water
Supply Resources of the State of Maryland, to the General Assembly of Maryland:
Baltimore: The Commission, 1933
Melosi, Martin, The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America, From Colonial
Times to the Present, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1999
Tarr, Joel, The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective,
Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 1996
(Refer to the sources on Wastewater Treatment [#15] and the Washington
Suburban Sanitary District [#1], for other potential sources)
** Another thing to consider is why these facilities were developed in this period –
think of bacteriology and incidence of typhoid fever – a good source to get you
started on this track is: Galishoff, Stuart, Safeguarding the Public Health: Newark,
1895-1918, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1975