Mark Chambers

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Mark M. Chambers teaches and writes about the intersections of environments with science and technology. My first book, Gray Gold: Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700–1840  (University of Tennessee Press, 2021) highlights the significance of Native American early mining and smelting techniques and their amalgamation with European, African slaves and American settler mining and smelting practices. I recently completed an eighteen month-long Rita Allen Civic Science fellowship where I gained experience in environmental justice while working with the Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI). I am currently working with my colleagues at EDGI on a National Science Foundation (NSF) Collaborative Research Grant, “Data, Science, and Environmental Justice at the Environmental Protection Agency” examining the effectiveness of community-based participatory action research to protect human health.