Ecological Explorations on Staten Island: Contemporary Landscapes and...
I came to Staten Island by way of a volcano. In 2009, I traveled to Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument to continue my master’s thesis research on Gary Snyder’s Danger on Peaks (2004), a book...
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Ecological Explorations on Staten Island: Cycling through the Greenbelt
Last week, I stepped away from my computer and into the Staten Island Greenbelt, wondering what it means to bicycle one’s way through the writing process. I have spent this June revising a chapter of...
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Ecological Explorations on Staten Island: The Rise and Fall of “Sandy Ground...
I recently described a few wealthy enclaves adjacent to the Staten Island Greenbelt, subsidized by the city’s Special Natural Area District zoning codes. Last week, while looking through the Staten...
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Ecological Explorations of Shaolin: Placing the “Ol Dirty Bastard...
Five years ago, as I began writing an environmental history of Staten Island, one of my advisors who grew up in New York during the 1980s paused at the end of our hour-long conversation. “But Pat,” he...
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