Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Snapshot: Katrin Kleemann Takes First Prize in Photo Competition
Katrin Kleemann has been awarded the jury’s first prize in the LMU GraduateCenter’s “Mein Forschungsgegenstand/My Research Object†photography competition for her photo of the Laki fissure in Iceland. Katrin is a doctoral candidate in the Rachel Carson Center’s Doctoral Program Environment and Society and a research associate of the Environment & Society Portal. Her research…
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Worldview: Watch Your Step!
“Moss Conservation in Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland†By Katrin Kleemann All photographs were taken by Katrin Kleemann and used here with her express permission. LakagÃgar is a fissure volcano in Iceland’s remote highlands that erupted in 1783–84 and left behind a landscape full of lava fields, now covered in lush green moss. Tourists can travel…
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Making Tracks: Karen Oslund
In the “Making Tracks†series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. Imagining the Global Arctic By Karen Oslund In his What W. H. Auden Can Do for You, Alexander McCall Smith calls Auden “a…