Dr. Andrew Watson POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW

Andrew Watson is a Canadian Environmental Historian and member of the Sustainable Farm Systems Project. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the HGIS lab from 2015 to 2017. His work with the Great Plains team uses socio-ecological metabolism methods to trace the changing energy flows of agriculture in Kansas during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By reconstructing these flows at the county, township, and farm level, Andrew’s work will offer an comparative analysis at various scales over time. Andrew is also a collaborator with Jim Clifford on London’s Ghost Acres Project, which uses digital methods, such as text-mining and HGIS, to trace global commodity flows during the nineteenth century. His own current research examines the economic and environmental history of coal production and consumption in Canada during the first half of the twentieth century.