Molluscan Explosion: The Dutch Shipworm Epidemic of the 1730s

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  • Adam Sundberg Creighton University, NE, USA

Abstract

An invasive mollusk called the shipworm (Teredo navalis) attacked coastal dikes in the Netherlands in the 1730s, leading to changes in the design of dikes.

Author Biography

Adam Sundberg, Creighton University, NE, USA

Adam Sundberg is a professor of environmental history and digital humanities at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Adam completed his doctorate at the University of Kansas in 2015 with a dissertation entitled “Floods, Worms, and Cattle Plague: Nature-induced Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age: 1672-1765” that investigated the role of disaster and environmental change during the Dutch eighteenth-century. His work focuses on disaster, cultural and environmental change, and historical GIS.

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Published

2015-08-16

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2015

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Copyright (c) 2015 CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Adam Sundberg