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Residuals is one part of a broader body of work examining how human activity continues to shape environments long after the original event has ended.

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What remains, and what happens next?


BLACK SANDS OF IWO JIMA

Environmental Forensics · Warfare · Heavy Metals

Research into the metallic and chemical remnants of twentieth-century warfare preserved in the volcanic sands of Iwo Jima.

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THE ENVIRONMENTAL AFTERLIFE OF WARFARE

Conflict · Contamination · Global Research

A quantitative investigation of how warfare-derived contaminants persist, move, transform, and enter environmental and biological systems across conflict landscapes.

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KENDALL-FROST MARSH

Wetlands · GIS · Historical Ecology

A reconstruction of nearly two centuries of landscape change in Mission Bay, examining how development, hydrologic alteration, and ecological processes continue to reshape a surviving coastal wetland.

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RESIDUAL AFTERMATH

Research · Environmental Legacy · Public Scholarship

An initiative focused on the long-term environmental consequences of conflict, contamination, militarization, and other forms of human disturbance.

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WRITING & PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP

Essays · Commentary · Science Communication

Writing that brings the science of environmental persistence beyond the laboratory and into larger conversations about history, responsibility, landscape, and inheritance.

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Different landscapes. Different histories. The same underlying problem.

The event ends. The material remains.