Everyone else is padding out holiday media with year-end lists, and so shall I.
The best landscape-related books I read in 2016:
- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss (2003)
- Kathleen Jamie, Findings (2005)
- Ronald Blythe, Akenfield (1969)
- Jonathan Raban, Hunting Mister Heartbreak (1990) – somehow I neglected to blog this one
- Graham Swift, Waterland (1983)
- Anna Quindlen, Miller’s Valley (2016)
- Alexandra Harris, Weatherland (2016)
My most popular posts of the year were those focussed on the Mactaquac decision and process:
- Mactaquac commentary abounds, June 17
- Mactaquac bathymetry, Oct 7
- Open and transparent? May 27
- CCUEN conference, May 13 (someone must have tweeted this one)
- Mactaquac recommendations, May 28 (tho not officially a blog post)
My favourite yet most underappreciated post (IMHO) was When to call a social scientist (or how to fool one), Sept 20
My favourite scholarly experiences of the year:
- Falkland Islands fieldwork (blogged here, here, and here)
- World Congress on Silvo-Pastoral Systems in Evora, Portugal (blogged here and here)
- International Symposium for Society and Resource Management, Michigan (blogged here, here, and here)
- Yan Chen’s thesis defense (blogged here) and spinoff thinking and new collaborations around Culturomics (starting here)
- Engaging in the Mactaquac process through papers (blogged here and here), storymap coverage (here), and commentary (see popular posts above, as well as here, here, here, and here)
Here’s to a fun and productive 2017.