Adam Sundberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3962877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Sundberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Sundberg |
| SIGNATURE | SUNDBERG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Creighton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7101-5101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Per imperatief plakkaat
Translating Algae into Policy
Ballast water is broadly understood today to be an important driver of marine and aquatic introductions worldwide, and it is subject to multiple national and international regulations. In the mid 1980s, marine ‘bioinvasion’ science was nascent and management nearly non-existent. A series of ballast-borne introduction crises prompted changes, including the discovery of the toxic dinoflagellate Gymnodinium catenatum , a type of plankton, in Tasmani…
Bridges to Civic Health
Background: Faculty in nursing and history at Creighton University directed two service-learning courses on the history and public health implications of lead (Pb) exposure in Omaha, NE. As part of their service requirements, students conducted or observed blood lead screenings in area schools and reflected on these shared experiences in discipline-specific coursework. Strong student response encouraged the faculty to enrich transdisciplinary tea…
Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age
Water history in the time of Covid-19
The Frigid Golden Age
The Dutch Republic was something of an outlier in the seventeenth century. Compared to its many neighbors struggling with demographic, economic, and political turmoil, the Dutch enjoyed relative stability and strong economic growth. Golden Age success seems all the more notable because it occurred during the coldest decades of the Little Ice Age (lia). Scholars are increasingly connecting the variability and extreme weather of the lia to social d…
Culling the Herds? Regional Divergences in Rinderpest Mortality in Flanders and South Holland, 1769-1785
The cattle disease rinderpest devastated Europe throughout the eighteenth century. The practice of preventative slaughter, or stamping out, has been seen as the most effective method of containing the disease. Historians frame this strategy as a measure of the effectiveness of centralized bureaucracy in handling epidemic outbreaks. The Austrian Netherlands, which enacted a stamping out policy during the rinderpest epidemic of 1769-1785, is often …
Happy Land
An Uncommon Threat
The sudden arrival of shipworms (Teredo navalis) along Dutch coasts in the 1730s posed significant challenges for water management. Although this invasive mollusc would eventually catalyse a dramatic transformation of coastal dike infrastructure, those changes only developed in the context of years of experimentation, wide ranging popular participation and increasing public anxiety. The perceived novelty of the shipworm episode was crucial to the…
Claiming the Past
The Christmas Flood of 1717 affected much of the North Sea coastline between Denmark and the northern Netherlands and was one of the greatest disasters of the early modern era. This article investigates the impact of the flood in the northern Dutch province of Groningen and makes three interrelated claims. First, the flood showcased the contested nature of flood interpretation and adaptive decision making in the wake of disaster. Second, dialogue…
An Uncommon Threat
The sudden arrival of shipworms (Teredo navalis) along Dutch coasts in the 1730s posed significant challenges for water management. Although this invasive mollusc would eventually catalyse a dramatic transformation of coastal dike infrastructure, those changes only developed in the context of years of experimentation, wide ranging popular participation and increasing public anxiety. The perceived novelty of the shipworm episode was crucial to the…
Claiming the Past
The Christmas Flood of 1717 affected much of the North Sea coastline between Denmark and the northern Netherlands and was one of the greatest disasters of the early modern era. This article investigates the impact of the flood in the northern Dutch province of Groningen and makes three interrelated claims. First, the flood showcased the contested nature of flood interpretation and adaptive decision making in the wake of disaster. Second, dialogue…
Claiming the Past
The Christmas Flood of 1717 affected much of the North Sea coastline between Denmark and the northern Netherlands and was one of the greatest disasters of the early modern era. This article investigates the impact of the flood in the northern Dutch province of Groningen and makes three interrelated claims. First, the flood showcased the contested nature of flood interpretation and adaptive decision making in the wake of disaster. Second, dialogue…
Happy Land
An Uncommon Threat
The sudden arrival of shipworms (Teredo navalis) along Dutch coasts in the 1730s posed significant challenges for water management. Although this invasive mollusc would eventually catalyse a dramatic transformation of coastal dike infrastructure, those changes only developed in the context of years of experimentation, wide ranging popular participation and increasing public anxiety. The perceived novelty of the shipworm episode was crucial to the…
Culling the Herds? Regional Divergences in Rinderpest Mortality in Flanders and South Holland, 1769-1785
The cattle disease rinderpest devastated Europe throughout the eighteenth century. The practice of preventative slaughter, or stamping out, has been seen as the most effective method of containing the disease. Historians frame this strategy as a measure of the effectiveness of centralized bureaucracy in handling epidemic outbreaks. The Austrian Netherlands, which enacted a stamping out policy during the rinderpest epidemic of 1769-1785, is often …
The Frigid Golden Age
The Dutch Republic was something of an outlier in the seventeenth century. Compared to its many neighbors struggling with demographic, economic, and political turmoil, the Dutch enjoyed relative stability and strong economic growth. Golden Age success seems all the more notable because it occurred during the coldest decades of the Little Ice Age (lia). Scholars are increasingly connecting the variability and extreme weather of the lia to social d…
Water history in the time of Covid-19
Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age
Bridges to Civic Health
Background: Faculty in nursing and history at Creighton University directed two service-learning courses on the history and public health implications of lead (Pb) exposure in Omaha, NE. As part of their service requirements, students conducted or observed blood lead screenings in area schools and reflected on these shared experiences in discipline-specific coursework. Strong student response encouraged the faculty to enrich transdisciplinary tea…
Translating Algae into Policy
Ballast water is broadly understood today to be an important driver of marine and aquatic introductions worldwide, and it is subject to multiple national and international regulations. In the mid 1980s, marine ‘bioinvasion’ science was nascent and management nearly non-existent. A series of ballast-borne introduction crises prompted changes, including the discovery of the toxic dinoflagellate Gymnodinium catenatum , a type of plankton, in Tasmani…
Per imperatief plakkaat
Geography (6 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Flood Risk Assessment and Management (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works)