Martin Melosi

Region: Coastal Prairie

Topics: Environmental History, Cities, Infrastructure, Solid Waste

 
Dr. Melosi is an environmental historian whose research and writing have focused on urban sanitary infrastructure, including the services for drinking water, wastewater and solid waste.  He is a professor at the University of Houston, where he has taught since 1984.  Previously, from 1975 through 1984, he taught at Texas A&M University.  He has written widely (The Sanitary City,  Energy Metropolis, Effluent America, and Coping with Abundance), edited professional journals and books, including the Environmental History Series at Texas A&M Press, worked as an expert witness in litigation, and served his colleagues as President and officer with the American Society for Environmental History.