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STEMLA 2024 Group Cyanotype

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This Scalar book features the work of students in Professors Selby Hearth, Joel Schlosser, and José Vergara's courses from the fall 2023 Energy Afterlives 360 cluster and the summer 2022 and 2024 iterations of the STEM in the Liberal Arts Fellows Program at Bryn Mawr College. It provides various projects and resources related to coal, oil, and nuclear energy through the lenses of geology, political science, and the arts.

THE PROJECT
As part of our efforts to understand humanity’s relationships with coal, oil, and nuclear energy sources, students in these courses have collectively built this Scalar book. From the geology classes, students have contributed a selection of objects they have worked with, data analyses they have conducted, samples they have taken from field sites, and conceptual diagrams. Their goal with these contributions is to synthesize their work on the geology of coal, oil, and nuclear energy and to connect it with their writings from the social science and humanities courses. These latter reports describe and analyze works regarding the three energy sources that did not appear on our syllabus. They explore a wide range of materials and the intersections between humanity, nature, and energy.

THE COURSES
In STML 112 / GEO 107, we examined the geology of coal, oil, and nuclear energy. Through readings, specimen analyses, field sampling, and lab work, students assessed the geologic conditions under which these materials formed and the long-term environmental consequences of their extraction.

In STML 113 / RUSS 232, we considered how these three energy sources give shape to our lives in countless ways by exploring their place in literature, music, photography, film, and art. This approach allowed us to examine the personal, human elements of energy and extraction.

CONTRIBUTORS
- Ella Allan-Rahill '26 is an Environmental Studies major from Orono, ME.
- Andrea '28 is a prospective Economics major from Queens, NY.
- Anna Gray Ashton '26 is a prospective Chemistry major from Hilton Head Island, SC.
- Annonymous '28 is a prospective Physics and Computer Science major from Rhode Island.
- Arlene '28.
- Daiana Azim '28 is from New York City.
- Esenia Banuelos '26 is a prospective Linguistics and Neuroscience double-major from Chicago, IL. She is a Chicana poet, skateboarder, and film enthusiast hoping to become an elementary science teacher. They have raised parakeets for the past seven years.
- Leila Byerly '26 is a prospective Molecular Biology and Biochemistry major. They were born in France and lived in Kenya for 11 years before returning to France where they have lived for the past 6 years with their two cats. They have Canadian, Italian, and US passports. They enjoy knitting, sour gummy worms, and being pedantic.
- Lindsay Damon '25 is an Environmental Studies major from Nashville, TN.
- Marie-Claire Davenport '28 is a prospective Biochemistry and Molecular Biology major from Monterey, CA.
- Lucy Dellera '28 is a prospective Geology major from Pittsburgh, PA. She is very passionate about Environmental Studies.
- Sarabjit Kaur Dhillon '26 is a prospective Biochemistry & Molecular Biology major from Ontario, CA.
- Samantha D.S '28 is a prospective Biology major from Minneapolis, MN.
- Amanda Edelmayer '26
- Meltem Genc '26 is a prospective Mathematics and Economics double major from Wayne, NJ.
- Suli Kamholtz-Roberts '26 is a prospective Biochemistry major from Chicago, IL.
- Rowan Killina '26 is a prospective Classical Studies major from Columbus, OH. Besides reading and writing, she enjoys collecting snails in jars and thinking about plants.
- Natasha Kwiatkowski '26 is an aspiring student of the Political Science and History Departments. She was born and raised in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
- Lisa Li '28 is a prospective Physics/Computer Science/Data Science major from Brooklyn, NY.
- Nisha Marino '24 is a Political Science major and Latin American/Iberian/Latino/a Studies minor from California.
- Miya Matsumune '26 is a Geology major from Upland, CA.
- Clio Morbello '26 is a Political Science major from Olympia, WA.
- Taaliyat Ojifinni '28 is a prospective Biology or Neuroscience from Newark, NJ.
- Faiqah Oladejo '28 a prospective Biochemistry from Newark, NJ.
- Bryn Osborne '24 is a Political Science major from Minneapolis, MN. Her hobbies include cross stitching, cleaning Arnecliffe Art Studio, and promoting Minnesota.
- Ninel Páez Carrión '26 is a prospective Chemistry and Psychology double major from Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico.
- Chelsea Quainoo '28 is a prospective Biochemistry major.
- Rosa Ramirez Almanzar '28 is a prospective Biology and Biochemistry major from Hazleton, PA.
- Emma Rideout-Mann '25 is an International Studies major from Long Island, NY. She enjoys lallygagging and a bit of dillydallying, especially with her close friends.
- Rezwana Sarder '26 is a prospective Neuroscience/Pre-Med major from Edison, New Jersey.
- Autumn Shemitz '28 is from Kansas City, MO.
- Sofia '28 is a prospective Physics major from Doylestown, PA.
- Isabelle Stid '26 is a Religion major from Menlo Park, CA.
- Claire Thomas '28 is a prospective Physics or Math major from Lebanon, PA.
- Grace Trembath '26 is a prospective Biology major from Denver, CO.
- Joelle Wise '28 is a prospective Biology major from College Station, TX.
- Aidan York '24 is a Geology major from Long Island, NY. In his spare time, he enjoys listening to his two favorite bands, Fall Out Boy and Green Day, and performing karaoke of their songs whenever possible.
- Anonymous '26 is a Political Science major and History of Art minor.
- and others.
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Special thanks to Don Barber, Yeidikook’áa Dionne Brady-Howard, Warren Cariou, Rex Cocroft, Cathy Connor, Rob Cunningham, Caroline Daws, Bronwen Densmore, Sarabjit Kaur Dhillon, Ernestine Hayes, Mishelley Low, Kevin Maier, Katherine Marenco, Pedro Marenco, Alice McGrath, Lindsay Meyer, Tom Mozdzer, Leila N'Diaye, Kelsey Obringer, Katie Price, Janelle Rebel, Jennifer Skirkanich, Matthew Spellberg, Grace Trabath, and Rich Willard.
CYANOTYPES 9 Interpreting energy in layers and shadows image_header 2024-08-04T15:36:01+00:00
In Summer 2024, the STEMLA Fellows were honored to host Warren Cariou, a Winnipeg-based writer, photographer, film-maker, professor, storyteller, and activist. In addition to talking with us about petroleum and land relations in the Athabasca Tar Sands (and our own backyards), Warren led us in a cyanotype workshop to approximate his process in creating petrographs.

The students used found material from around Bryn Mawr's campus and the Silver Creek Acid Mine Drainage Remediation site in New Philadelphia, PA. They also took photographs inside and outside of the No. 9 Coal Mine in Coaldale, PA, stills from films we watched in our cluster, images related to fossil fuel extraction — and turned them into digital transparencies. They layered these found objects and images to create shadow-scapes that spoke to Energy Afterlives themes.
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Linked below are the pages our students created from their cyanotypes:
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