Links

The American Society for Environmental Historians website is an important resource for trends in the field of environmental history and conservation practices. 

http://aseh.net/

 

Headed by Murayama Satoshi of Kagawa University,  the Association for East Asian Environmental History is headed by a council of transnational scholars from Japan, Taiwan, the UK, and the US studying environmental history issues in East Asia.  The site serves as a valuable resource for new publications in environmental history and conferences on the topic held globally. 

http://www.aeaeh.org/

 

This site brings together scholars and students of war's impact on the environment throughout history, which includes a blog on the relationship between mass conflict and historical environmental change and a large bibliography, which also features sections on preindustrial East Asia and World War II. 

http://environmentallegaciesofwar.com/

 

This is the website of the Ornithology Department at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), which houses many of the bird and animal specimens prepared by Oliver L. Austin during the Pacific War and in his work in postwar Korea and Japan.  The MCZ Collection database lists all written materials and artifacts donated by Dr. Austin over a period of decades in the mid-20th century.

 

Florida State University's Special Collections in the Claude Pepper Center houses the Oliver L. Austin Slide Collection and a transcript from Professor Annika A. Culver's oral history interview, "An American Teenager's Experience in US-Occupied Tokyo" with Tony Austin, Dr. Austin's son. There are also 70 digitized slides in FSU's Digital Library:

For more on the professors and scholarship in Florida State University's History Department, please see this website.

Museum of Florida History, Tallahassee

Oliver L. Austin Jr.'s collections from University of Florida's former Florida State Museum were divided up in past decades, with natural history and ethnographic collections remaining in Gainesville's Florida Museum of Natural History, while historical objects were transferred to Tallahassee's Museum of Florida History. In addition to Dr. Austin’s naval uniforms from World War II, the Museum of Florida History holds cold weather gear worn during his 1955-56 participation in Operation Deep Freeze (including a small bottle of Courvoisier "in case one fell in the sea"). Intriguingly, Dr. Austin collected samples of stores left behind by the earlier 1907-1912 Antarctic expeditions of explorers Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) and Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922)— wood blocks from the first primitive snowmobile, match boxes, cocoa tins, and salt jars. The Austin Collection photos reveal locations at Cape Evans where Austin collected these relics now housed at the museum, including a small, Antarctic rock, with a handwritten note identifying it as from George Vince's (1880-1902) memorial. (John Turner, Senior Museum Registrar, kindly provided these details). 

https://museumoffloridahistory.com/

Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville

Lafayette College East Asian Collections

This resource archives visual collections of periods in East Asian history, including postwar Japan.

http://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/ 

The Center serves as a resource for scholarship on polar missions, including Antarctica.

Cambridge houses materials on British explorer Robert Falcon Scott's doomed 1912 mission to the South Pole, and other sources related to Antarctic missions.