Adrian Howkins

I am an environmental historian with research interests in the polar regions, national parks and protected areas, and religion and the environment. I have worked extensively on the history of Antarctica, and I am a co-PI on the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research site in Antarctica. I am currently writing a book on the history of this region. As a member of the Public Lands History Centre at Colorado State University, I was closely involved with several projects on the history of US national parks. I am in the early stages of developing a project on the history of national parks in the United Kingdom. I have recently started a course at Sarum College in Salisbury to become a self-supporting minister in the Church of England. Alongside this training I’m developing an interest in histories of religion and the environment.

Publications

From the Heroic Age to today: What diatoms from Shackleton's Nimrod expedition can tell us about the ecological trajectory of Antarctic ponds
Howkins, A. J. & Kohler, T. J., Dec 2021, In: Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 6, 6, p. 379-387 9 p.

Political Conflict in the Antarctica Peninsula
Howkins, A. J., 2021, Antarctic Resolution.

The rise of technocratic environmentalism: The United States, Antarctica, and the globalization of the environmental impact statement
Antonello, A. & Howkins, A. J., 2020, In: Journal of Historical Geography.

Antarctic Science and the Cold War
Howkins, A., 2019, Cold Science. Bocking, S. & Hiedt, D. (eds.).