Environmental and Public Health History Links

The Monmouth County Board of Health

Robert Peters Michael A. Meddis, M.P.H. President 3435 HIGHWAY 9 Public Health Coordinator FREEHOLD, NEW JERSEY 07728-1255 And Health Officer TELEPHONE (732) 431-7456 FAX (732) 409-7579

LINKS

ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH HISTORY

Revised 2/9/09

Atlantic Highlands Environmental Commission http://www.ahnj.com/ahnj/Departments/Environmental%20Commission

Boardwalk History – Asbury Park Press http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=BOARDWALKS01

Combined Sewer Overflows Interstate Environmental Commission http://www.iec-nynjct.org/

Disasters – Natural and Man Made http://www.cyndislist.com/disasters.htm

DEP(NJ) Marine Monitoring Reports http://www.state.nj.us/dep/wmm/bmw/ReportMonmouth.htm Same at the State Library http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/links/links.php?cat=98 Harmful Algae Blooms 2000 http://www.state.nj.us/dep/dsr/browntide/hab2.PDF DSR – COASTAL RESEARCH http://www.state.nj.us/dep/dsr/coastal/coastal.htm

Environmental History Timeline http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/envhist/

Environmental Movement Timeline http://ecotopia.org/ehof/timeline.html

Harbor Estuary (Hudson-Raritan Bay) http://www.seagrant.sunysb.edu/hep/index.htm

Health Education History http://hsc.usf.edu/~kmbrown/hed_history.htm

History of the Health Sciences World Wide Web Links http://www.mla-hhss.org/histlink.htm

History of Public Health - Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School Of Public Health http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/HistoryPublicHealth/PDFs/ReadingList.pdf

History of Public Health - Rollins School of Public Health http://www.sph.emory.edu/PHIL/PHILhistory.php

History of Public Health in South Carolina http://www.scdhec.net/administration/history/links.htm

History of Public Health in Massachusetts http://courses.lib.odu.edu/commhealth/pstepano/public.ppt#6

The Influenza Panic of 1918 http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/

John Snow http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html

John Snow – with cholera map http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/socbulletin34(2)3_7_2001.pdf

Middlesex Sewer Spill to Raritan Bay 2003 http://www.nj.gov/dep/update/update030603.html

NYCBOH Protecting Public Health in New York City: 200 Years of Leadership (Booklet) http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/bicentennial/historical-booklet.pdf Chronology http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/history/chronology-1966centennial.pdf Pioneers in the practice of PH http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/php/php-jump.html Timeline http://www.tlcarchive.org/htm/home.htm Yellow Fever and Cholera http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/bicentennial/historical-booklet-1805-1865.pdf

Plagues by state http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/3959/Plagstate.htm

Origins of the Public Bath Movement http://www.ohiostatepress.org/books/Complete%20PDFs/Williams%20Washing/03.pdf

RARITAN BAY Army Corps of Engineers http://www.nan.usace.army.mil/harbor/hre.htm

Birds on Shooters Island, Prall's Island, and Isle of Meadows – An Islanded Nature http://www.tpl.org/tier3_cd.cfm?content_item_id=4160&folder_id=630

Arthur Kill – Tremley Point History http://www.colorantshistory.org:80/TremleyHistory.html

Smallpox in New York City - 1947 http://www.homelandsecurity.org/journal/articles/OutbreakinNYC1947.htm

Terrorism Timeline http://www.simplytaty.com/broadenpages/terrorism.htm

Tobacco Industry Hall of Shame http://roswell.tobaccodocuments.org/hall_of_shame.htm

Toilet History http://www.toiletology.com/history.shtml

CDC Public Health Timeline http://www.cdc.gov/eis/about/timeline.htm

CDC - Public Health Image Library http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp

EPA History Timeline http://www.epa.gov/history/timeline/index.htm

Public Heath Service – History http://lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/apdb/phsHistory/index.html

Vaccines - Impact of Vaccines Universally Recommended for Children -- United States, 1990- 1998 http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056803.htm#00003753.htm#00003753.htm

GEOLOGY

Colts Neck NJ – Natural Features http://www.colts-neck.nj.us/env/nrichap6.html

Geologic Time http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibit/geology.html

Geologic Timescale http://www.geosociety.org/science/timescale/timescl.htm

Geology and Geography of New York Bight Beaches http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/bight/index.html

Grand Canyon Timeline http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/canyon/sfeature/geologygraphic.html

Hofstra U. Geology Page http://www.people.hofstra.edu/faculty/charles_merguerian/

Hunter U. Geology and Geography of the NY Bight http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/bight/geology.html

National Park System – Geologic Resources http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/inventory/index.cfm

New Jersey Fossils – The Geology Page http://njfossils.net/geology.html

New Jersey Geological Map http://fvanderb.home.att.net/geology/geology.html

New Jersey – Prehistoric http://www.geoworld.org/na/usa/nj/prehistory/

New Jersey Scuba Diver – Bottom Composition http://www.njscuba.net/biology/misc_bottom.html

New Jersey – Upper Cretaceous & Tertiary Formations of the Coastal Plain http://www.njfossils.net/uppercretaceousformations.html

New Jersey Volcanoes – USGS http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/LivingWith/VolcanicPast/Places/volcanic_past_new_jersey.html

New York Geology – Overview http://gretchen.geo.rpi.edu/roecker/nys/nys_edu.pamphlet.html

USGS – Geology of the New York Region http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/nyc/

USGS – Various pictures of NY/NJ Geology http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/nyc/common/captions.htm

Sandy Hook, NJ - Sand http://www.brookdale.cc.nj.us/staff/sandyhook/tripdata/beaches/sand/index.htm

Solid Waste - Historical Context of Municipal Solid Waste http://www.uns.ethz.ch/edu/teach/regelmech/unterlagen_rm/US_waste_history.pdf

HISTORY

Atlantic Herald Trivia Page http://www.ahherald.com/trivia/

Atlantic Highlands Historical Society http://www.atlantichighlandshistory.org/

Atlantic Highlands – History of Atlantic Highlands http://www.ahherald.com/atlantichighlands/history_boyd.htm

Brainy History http://www.brainyhistory.com/

Coastal Waterways – Historical Chronology http://www.usace.army.mil/inet/usace-docs/misc/nws83-10/chron.pdf

Colts Neck NJ History http://www.colts-neck.nj.us/env/nrichap3.html

Dictionary of the History of Ideas http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/DicHist/dict.html

Directory of Historical Societies in Monmouth County, New Jersey http://www.monmouth.com/~mcha3/hsdir.html

Highlands, NJ - History http://www.highlandsnj.com/history/index.html

Middletown Township Historical Society http://home.earthlink.net/~lmpoll/index.html

Middletown – A Walk Along Kings Hwy. http://www.ahherald.com/readers_write/rw_kings_hwy.htm

Monmouth County Historical Association http://www.monmouth.com/~mcha/

Monmouth County - old postcards http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nj/ppcs-nj.html

Oral Histories of Monmouth County http://www.visitmonmouth.com/oralhistory/Interview.htm

New Jersey History Page http://www.westfieldnj.com/whs/history/index.html

TODAY IN HISTORY

This Day in History – NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html

Today in History – Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

Today in Health History Headlines http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/333/7087.html

Today in History http://www.todayinhistory.com/

Today in History – Historynet.com http://www.historynet.com/today_in_history

Today in History – teAchnology.com http://search.teach-nology.com/today/today2.pl

Today in Weather History http://www.weatherforyou.com/history/

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