Matthew Morse Booker

The Seed Oyster Inspectors: Labor and Power in Trans-Pacific Tidelands, 1945-1970s

The Pacific Circle: History and Studies of Pacific Science. Presented at the The Pacific Circle: History and Studies of Pacific Science, Kyoto University.

Filth into Food? Lessons from the Past

Booker, M. (2022, August 11).

Sweetness, Power, Yeasts, and Entomo-terroir

In V. Bienvenue & N. Chare (Eds.), Animals, Plants and Afterimages: The Art and Science of Representing Extinction. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BienvenueAnimals

The diversity and function of sourdough starter microbiomes

ELife, 10.

The status of striped bass, <scp><i>Morone saxatilis</i>,</scp> as a commercially ready species for U.S. marine aquaculture

Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, 52(3), 710–730.

The ‘Pacific’ Oyster Trade and the Possibilities of Trans-Pacific Environmental History

Sixth Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History. Presented at the Sixth Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History, Kyoto, Japan.

Visualizing San Francisco Bay’s Forgotten Past

In K. Coulter, W. Graf von Hardenburg, & F. A. Jorgensen (Eds.), Ant, Spider, Bee: Chronicling Digital Transformations in the Humanities (pp. 117–126). Munich: Spider & Cloud.

Down By the Bay: San Francisco's History Between the Tides

In University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520355569/down-by-the-bay

Integrating History into the Restoration of Coho Salmon in the Siuslaw River, Oregon

In Sustainable Fisheries Management (pp. 625–636).

Loss, Grief, and the Humanities in the Time of Pandemic

Booker, M. (2020, April). https://action.nationalhumanitiescenter.org/loss-grief-humanities-pandemic/

Scenario analysis on the use of rodenticides and sex-biasing gene drives for the removal of invasive house mice on islands

Biological Invasions, 22(4), 1235–1248.

Why do People Care for Sourdough?

In R. Dunn, M. Vandegrift, K. Dufresne, K. Ciccone, L. Nichols, & M. Jewell (Eds.), Fermentology.

Beyond Despair: Theory and Practice in Environmental Humanities

National Humanities Center. Presented at the National Humanities Center, Durham, NC.

Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates

In University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469652894/food-fights/

Introduction

In Food Fights (pp. 1–12).

Sourdough Cultures

(2019, August 29). https://seeingthewoods.org/2019/08/29/sourdough-cultures/

The Century-Old Origins of Contemporary Food Safety Debates

In C. Ludington & M. Booker (Eds.), Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates (pp. 145–161). Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press.

Who Should Be Responsible for Food Safety? Oysters as a Case Study

In Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469652894/food-fights/

Before The Jungle: The Atlantic origins of US food safety regulation

Global Environment, 11(1), 12–35.

What Sourdough Bread Tells Us About the Anthropocene

Anthropocene and Citizen Science: Evidence Gained through the “Opening-up” of Academic Knowledge Production? Presented at the Anthropocene and Citizen Science: Evidence Gained through the “Opening-up” of Academic Knowledge Production?, Deutsches Museum, Munich.

Humanities Moment: China Camp State Park

National Humanities Center.

Oysters in the City

Raleigh, NC: Center for Geospatial Analysis, NC State University.

150 Years of Observing San Francisco Bay

In Fisher Bay Observatory Essay #3 (Fisher Bay Observatory Essay No. 3). San Francisco: Exploratorium Science Center.

Modifying Tradition: Food safety in the 20th century U.S.

Consuming the World: Eating and Drinking in Culture, History, and Environment. Presented at the Consuming the World: Eating and Drinking in Culture, History, and Environment, Rachel Carson Center, Munich.

Placing responsibility for food safety in the twentieth century

American Society for Environmental History. Presented at the American Society for Environmental History, Washington, D.C.

What Should We Eat?

RCC Perspectives, (1), 45–50.

Why Did Americans Stop Eating Locally?

In Rachel Carson Center Blog.

Comment, panel on public history and environmental history

American Society for Environmental History. Presented at the American Society for Environmental History, San Francisco, CA.

Lessons from the boom and bust of an Atlantic fishery

Post-collapse: Ecology and Environmental Humanities conference. Presented at the Post-collapse: Ecology and Environmental Humanities conference, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Organizer and Chair, roundtable on urban environmental history

American Society for Environmental History. Presented at the American Society for Environmental History, San Francisco, CA.

A negotiated landscape: The transformation of San Francisco's waterfront since 1950

[Review of ]. Pacific Historical Review, 82(2), 325–326.

Down by the bay: San Francisco's history between the tides

In Down by the Bay: San Francisco's History between the Tides. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84887735167&partnerID=MN8TOARS

Garone, P. 2011. The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California’s Great Central Valley

Wetlands, 33(2), 379–380.

No Illusions, No Fantasy, No Melodrama: The Legacy of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

In 50th Anniversary of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, College of Natural Resources. Raleigh, NC: NC State University.

Why I wrote Down by the Bay

In Save the Bay Blog.

Assessing the spatial turn in US history

Organization of American Historians/National Council of Public Historians. Presented at the Organization of American Historians/National Council of Public Historians, Milwaukee, WI.

Digital urban environmental histories

American Society for Environmental History. Presented at the American Society for Environmental History, Madison, WI.

Making Use of Nature: How resources became commodities in America during the Nineteenth Century

Organization of American Historians/National Council of Public Historians. Presented at the Organization of American Historians/National Council of Public Historians, Milwaukee, WI.

The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California's Great Central Valley

JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY, Vol. 43, pp. 139–141.

The nature of borders: Salmon, boundaries, and bandits on the Salish Sea

Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 83, pp. 534–535.

Visualizing San Francisco Bay's Forgotten Past

Journal of Digital Humanities, 1(3). http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-3/visualizing-san-francisco-bays-forgotten-past-by-matthew-booker/

urban farming in the west: A new deal experiment in subsistence homesteads.

Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 42, pp. 407–408.

From Salt Ponds to Refuge in San Francisco Bay

In Spatial History Project. Stanford.

How did the Japanese oyster become American?

Society for the History of Technology. Presented at the Society for the History of Technology, Tacoma, WA.

Our Better Nature: Environment and the Making of San Francisco

Booker, M. M. (2010, August). PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW, Vol. 79, pp. 465–466.

Visualizing the Story of San Francisco Bay

Narrating the Visual Conference. Presented at the Narrating the Visual Conference, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.

Looking Backward to Look Ahead: San Francisco Bay Environmental History and Impending Climate Change

San Francisco Estuary Institute. Presented at the San Francisco Estuary Institute.

Shell Mounds in San Francisco Bay Area

In Spatial History Project.

The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Booker, M. M. (2009, February). PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW, Vol. 78, pp. 129–U142.

The Production of Space in San Francisco Bay: San Francisco Bay’s Atlantic Oyster Industry, 1869-1920s

In Spatial History Project.

The Struggle for Ownership of the San Francisco Bay Area, 1769-1972

In Spatial History Project.

Visualizing San Francisco Bay, Doing Spatial History

Western History Association. Presented at the Western History Association.

Visualizing Sea Level Rise and Early Bay Habitation, 6000BP to Present: The Emeryville Shellmound

In Spatial History Project.

Morgan Oyster Company’s Bay Holdings, 1930

In Spatial History Project.

San Mateo County Bay Ownership, 1877-1927

In Spatial History Project.

Crab wars: A tale of horseshoe crabs, bioterrorism, and human health

[Review of ]. Journal of the History of Biology, 40(2), 382–383.

San Francisco Bay’s Immigrant Oysters

European Society for Environmental History meeting. Presented at the European Society for Environmental History meeting, Amsterdam.

Centering Nature: Humans, History and the Environment

Method and Meaning: A Workshop in Historical Meaning and Interpretation. Presented at the Method and Meaning: A Workshop in Historical Meaning and Interpretation, Department of History, Duke University.

Oyster growers and oyster pirates in San Francisco Bay

[Review of ]. PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW, 75(1), 63–88.

Oysters and Marine History

Sea Educational Association Marine Environmental History Workshop. Presented at the Sea Educational Association Marine Environmental History Workshop, Key West, FL.

The Chao Praya, Arakawa, and Thames: Re-Engineering Rivers and Societies in Bangkok, Tokyo, and London

American Society for Environmental History. Presented at the American Society for Environmental History, Houston, Texas.

Foraging, Private Property, and Environmental Inequality on Bay Area Shorelines

American Society for Environmental History. Presented at the American Society for Environmental History, Victoria BC.

Pacific Northwest

In C. Miller, M. Cioc, & K. Showers (Eds.), History in Dispute (Vol. 7). New York: St. James Press/Gale Publications.

Pacific Salmon

In C. Miller, M. Cioc, & K. Showers (Eds.), History in Dispute (Vol. 7). New York: St. James Press/Gale Publications.

How to Think in the Environmental Humanities

Booker, M., & Gilman, K. In Humanities in Class, National Humanities Center. Humanities in Class, National Humanities Center.