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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><em style="font-size: 14px;" class="">“From the Red Desert to the Red Planet: U.S Military Engineers in Extreme Environments”</em></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Presented by: </span><font face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" class="">Gretchen
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; font-family: Garamond, serif;">Gretchen will be presenting information from her current manuscript,<i class="ContentPasted2"> Sand, Snow,
and Stardust</i>. The book traces the story of how we know what we know about extreme environments. Places such as the desert, the Arctic, and outer space that exist out there somewhere, on the edges of our maps. These are places that have long and generally
been written off – wastelands, useless, remote, lifeless. That we know anything about these environments today is directly related to the U.S. military’s priorities stemming from World War II, the Cold War, and beyond. This book charts the relationship between
U.S. military engineers and their construction projects in the extremes beginning in the 1940s, when the U.S. government realized it knew nothing about such places, through a Cold War near-obsession with mastering them, to the present day, when we find ourselves
in the uncomfortable predicament that the U.S. military might be the one organization that can best help navigate a world in which more and more of our environments are becoming extreme.</span><span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; font-family: Garamond, serif;" class=""> For
more information visit </span><a href="https://history.mit.edu/events/from-the-red-desert-to-the-red-planet-u-s-military-engineers-in-extreme-environments/" class="">MIT History Events.</a><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: justify; font-family: Garamond, serif;" class=""> </span></div>
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<strong class="">This event is part of the MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History sponsored by the History Faculty and the Program in Science, Technology and Society. For more information contact <a href="mailto:kalopes@mit.edu" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="">kalopes@mit.edu</a><br class="">
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