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Daniel Macfarlane, PhD

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  • Fixing Niagara Falls: Energy, Environment, and Engineers at the World’s Most Famous Waterfall
  • Negotiating a River: Canada, the US, and the Creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway
  • Border Flows: A Century of the Canadian-American Water Relationship
  • The First Century of the International Joint Commission

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Visual Essay on Niagara Falls in Edge Effects

December 6, 2020December 6, 2020 by danielmacfarlane
Faking Niagara Falls, A Visual History
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Op-Ed on Niagara in the Globe and Mail

December 6, 2020 by danielmacfarlane

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-turns-out-canadas-top-natural-wonder-niagara-falls-isnt-so-natural/

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Online interviews about Fixing Niagara Falls

October 13, 2020 by danielmacfarlane

I recently did two different online talks about my new book:

-https://newbooksnetwork.com/daniel-macfarlane-fixing-niagara-falls-environment-energy-and-engineers-at-the-worlds-most-famous-waterfall-ubc-press-2020/

-http://newnatures.org/greenhouse/events/online-book-talk-daniel-macfarlane-fixing-niagara-falls/

Online Book Talk: Daniel Macfarlane, Fixing Niagara Falls
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Publication of “Fixing Niagara Falls”

September 27, 2020 by danielmacfarlane

My book Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World’s Most Famous Waterfall was released on September 1! I did an online talk about the book for The Greenhouse: http://newnatures.org/greenhouse/events/online-book-talk-daniel-macfarlane-fixing-niagara-falls/

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Publication of “The First Century of the International Joint Commission”

February 11, 2020 by danielmacfarlane

Co-edited by myself and Murray Clamen, The First Century of the International Joint Commission was published in January 2020. It is available for purchase from the University of Calgary Press, but is also Open and Acces and can be downloaded for free here.

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Great Lakes flooding: The warning signs that homes must be moved

October 17, 2019 by danielmacfarlane

This opinion piece appeared on The Conversation in October 2019:

https://theconversation.com/great-lakes-flooding-the-warning-signs-that-homes-must-be-moved-122697

 

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Article in Slate: In 1969, Engineers Turned Off the Water of Niagara Falls

June 6, 2019June 6, 2019 by danielmacfarlane

In May 2019 I published a piece on Slate on the 50th anniversary of turning off the American Falls:

https://slate.com/technology/2019/05/niagara-falls-june-1969-dewatering.html

 

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Op-Ed in Buffalo News about turning off American Falls again

December 6, 2018 by danielmacfarlane

https://buffalonews.com/2018/12/05/another-voice-dewatering-american-falls-would-be-a-tourism-turn-off/?fbclid=IwAR3b8X5-uQl6Praa-D0hIFNVn2_J-j2Lsg4TpaK1KPNB7mDcOnzqZyFcG_I

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The End (and Middle) of History: Environmental History and Politics in Flint’s Water Crisis

December 6, 2018December 6, 2018 by danielmacfarlane

See the full post on the NiCHE site:

The End (and Middle) of History: Environment and Politics in Flint’s Water Crisis

 

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How engineers created an icy wonderland at Niagara Falls – Washington Post

October 30, 2018 by danielmacfarlane

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/01/07/how-engineers-created-the-icy-wonderland-at-niagara-falls/

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