Mark Carey

Clark Honors College historian Mark Carey earns fame as a mountaineer

https://around.uoregon.edu/content/clark-honors-college-historian-earns-fame-mountaineer

from Around the O, Sept. 19, 2018—Mark Carey never saw it coming, but his 20 years of research in a region of South America strongly affected by glaciers have elevated him into international mountaineering fame.

Carey, a historian in the UO’s Clark Honors College and director of the Environmental Studies Program, received the King Albert Mountain Award during ceremonies Sept. 8 in Pontresina, Switzerland. The honor goes to “persons or institutions that have distinguished themselves in some way in the mountain world.”

Carey was joined at the winner’s podium in the King Albert I Memorial Foundation’s 13th award ceremony by Iranian female mountain explorer Nasim Eshqi, Swiss filmmakers who documented a cross-country skiing trip on the Silk Road, and representatives of Italy’s Val Grande National Park.

“I was pretty surprised. I was in shock when they got in touch with me,” Carey said. “I appreciate this award because it values the historical context that I bring into research on glaciers, climate change and natural hazards. And it recognizes the fundamental importance of cross-disciplinary collaborations, which I have increasingly put at the forefront of my research practices with concepts like hydro-social modeling and integrated disaster prevention.” › Continue reading

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Thursday, September 20th, 2018 Affiliated faculty, Awards No Comments

“Energy, Water, and Hydrosocial Imaginaries in South America,” Global Oregon Faculty Collaboration Fund Lecture Series

February 24, 2016
4:00 pmto5:00 pm

Fernando_Mark_LectureLillis Hall
Room 175
955 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus

A public lecture by Fernando Purcell, Department of History, Pontificia Universidad Católica and Mark Carey, Honors College, University of Oregon

This presentation seeks to understand hydropower in South America in fresh ways—not only historically to provide much needed context for current discussions, but also culturally, to grapple with discursive, ideological, and ethical aspects of hydropower development amidst climate change and water struggles.

For more info, please call 541-346-1521.

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Sunday, February 15th, 2015 Events, Public Policy No Comments

UO professor studies effects of climate change in Peru

Mark CareyUO professor Mark Carey teams up with University of Texas colleague to study effects of climate change in Peru | AroundtheO

Editor’s Note: Mark Carey is a member of CLLAS Advisory Board

December 19, 2013—Mark Carey, an associate professor of history in the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, has teamed up with several researchers, including Professor Kenneth Young in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas, as part of a National Science Foundation grant. Carey and Young serve as principal investigators on the project that is studying how environmental changes in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca mountains affect downstream water supplies and water management.” Read the full AROUNDtheO article

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Thursday, December 19th, 2013 Advisory Board, Research No Comments


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