This document provides a summary of Dr. Jeffrey M. Brideau's career experience and qualifications. It outlines his current position as a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Maryland studying water resources planning. It also details his education including a Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland and prior research positions at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the University of Maryland. The document lists his publications, presentations, teaching experience, awards and professional affiliations to provide an overview of his expertise and accomplishments in the field of environmental and water resources history.

1. DR. JEFFREY M. BRIDEAU
743 QUEBEC PLACE NW, WASHINGTON, DC, 20010 USA
tel +1 (202) 909 3674 email jbrideau@umd.edu
CURRENT POSITION
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
College Park, MD.
Post-Doctoral Research Associate September 2015-Present
• Description: Principal investigator on a research project focused on the history of 20th century strategic water
resources planning in the United States, as well as the lessons it can offer to contemporary water resources
planners to inform future activities. This project is funded by grant from the a National Institutes for Water
Resources
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, College Park, MD.
Doctorate (Ph.D.), Awarded June 2014 2007-2014
• Major Field: Technology, Science and Environmental History – Minor Field: U.S. Cultural History
• Supervisor: Professor Thomas Zeller
• Thesis: A Bond Rather Than a Barrier? Constructing the St. Lawrence Seaway
• Committee Members: Professor Robert Friedel (Department of History, University of Maryland); Professor Erika
Milam (Department of History, Princeton University); Professor Gregory Baecher (Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland); Professor David Sicilia (Department of History, University of
Maryland); and Dr. Betsy Mendelsohn (Frm. Director of Science, Technology, Society Programs, University of
Maryland)
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA, Ottawa, Canada
Master of Arts (MA), Awarded August 2007 – History – Summa Cum Laude 2005-2007
• Supervisor: Dr. Donald Davis
• Thesis: Invasion By Invitation: The Origins of American Direct Investment in Canada
• Examiner: Dr. Galen Perras (Department of History, University of Ottawa)
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA, Ottawa, Canada
Bachelor of Arts, Honours (BA), Awarded June 2005 – History – Cum Laude 2001-2005
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESOURCES, UNITED STATES ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS,
Alexandria, VA.
ORISE/ORAU Post-Doctoral Fellow August 2014-August 2015
• Description: Postdoctoral research position focused on the history of strategic water resources planning in the
United States; specifically, the evolution of multi-purpose project evaluation, design, and implementation.
• Project Advisors: Dr. Joe Manous and Dr. Gerald E. Galloway
PROJECT MANAGEMENT CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE, A. JAMES CLARK SCHOOL OF
ENGINEERING, DEPT. OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF
MARYLAND, College Park, MD.
Post-Doctoral Researcher June 2014-October 2014
• Description: Researcher for a forthcoming report – The Potential of Nature Based Solutions in Flood Risk
Management: A Global Review – written in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy and Deltares.
• Principal Investigator: Dr. Gerald E. Galloway
INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESOURCES, UNITED STATES ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS,
Alexandria, VA.
Graduate Student Researcher Summer 2012

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• Description: Research and draft of a preliminary historical survey of the implementation of two specific national
water resources development programs – the Gallatin Report and the Corps of Engineers’ 308 Projects.
• Project Director: Dr. Joe Manous
WATER POLICY COLLABORATIVE, A. JAMES CLARK SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, DEPT. OF
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, College Park, MD.
Researcher/Coauthor Summer 2011
• Description: Member of an independent review of FEMA’s “National Dam Safety Program.” Research and
authorship of history-based sections of the report – Review and Evaluation of the National Dam Safety Program.
• Project Directors: Dr. Gregory Baecher and Dr. Gerald E. Galloway
RESEARCH AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
PHILADELPHIA AREA CENTER FOR HISTORY OF SCIENCE (PACHS), Philadelphia, PA.
Pre-Doctoral, Dissertation Writing Fellow 2012-2013
• Description: Awarded a nine-month, in-residence writing fellowship to advance my dissertation and contribute to
intellectual exchanges hosted by the Center.
NORTHEAST CONSORTIUM FOR HYDROLOGIC SYNTHESIS, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
New York, NY.
Summer Research Fellow Summer 2010
• Description: Member of an interdisciplinary team assembled to quantify and describe hydrologic dynamics in the
northeastern United States over a multi-century time scale, and craft an agenda and model for ongoing
interdisciplinary research. The National Science Foundation supported this project.
• Principal Investigator: Dr. Charles J. Vörösmarty (CUNY)
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, College Park, MD.
Graduate Academic Fellow Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
• Description: Multi-semester fellowship awarded by the College to facilitate dissertation related travel, research,
and writing activities.
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, College Park, MD.
Graduate Summer Research Fellowship Summer 2008
• Description: Competitive departmental research fellowship for a funded summer to complete exploratory
dissertation research.
PUBLICATIONS
• “If You Give Them the Inch, They’ll Take 1.609344 Kilometres: The Demise of National Metrication in the United
States.” The Maryland Historian, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Summer 2008), 41-83.
• Article, Après Nous Le Déluge: The Remaking of the St. Lawrence River Valley (Draft in preparation)
• Article, co-authored with Joseph Hoover (Department of Geography, University of Denver), Making History in the
Hydrologic Sciences (Draft circulated)
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
WATER HISTORY 2015, INTERNATIONAL WATER HISTORY ASSOCIATION’S BIENNIAL
MEETING, Delft, The Netherlands.
Paper Presentation June 2015
Abstract Visions, Concrete Designs: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ 308 Program
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, ANNUAL CONFERENCE, San Francisco.
Poster Presentation March 2014
Après Nous, Le Déluge: The Remaking of the St. Lawrence Valley

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WATER HISTORY 2013, INTERNATIONAL WATER HISTORY ASSOCIATION’S BIENNIAL
MEETING, Montpellier, France.
Paper Presentation June 2013
Selling the Seaway: Advocacy, Opposition, and the Construction of Transnational Expertise
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, ANNUAL CONFERENCE, Toronto, Canada.
Roundtable Speaker April 2013
Thinking Outside the Box: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Graduate School
PHILADELPHIA AREA CENTER FOR HISTORY OF SCIENCE, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCES WORKING GROUP, Philadelphia, PA.
Paper Presentation February 2013
An Inland Seacoast: The Origins of the Seaway Idea, An Envirotechnical Analysis
NETWORK IN CANADIAN HISTORY & ENVIRONMENT, EH+ WRITING WORKSHOP, MCMASTER
UNIVERSITY, Hamilton, Canada.
Paper Presentation/Workshop Participant June 2012
An Inland Seacoast: The Origins of the Seaway Idea and the Construction of Bi-National Interest
MILLER CENTER FOR HISTORICAL STUDIES, INTERDISCIPLINARY ROUNDTABLE,
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, College Park, MD.
Paper Presentation/Roundtable Speaker April 2012
Making History in the Hydrologic Sciences
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, ANNUAL CONFERENCE, Madison, WI.
Paper Presentation March 2012
Imagining the Seaway: Proto-Environmental Diplomacy and the Construction of Bi-National Interest
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, ANNUAL CONFERENCE, Phoenix, AZ.
Paper Presentation April 2011
Inventing Wastewater: The Social and Scientific Construction of Effluent in the Northeastern United States
MARYLAND COLLOQUIUM FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE AND THE
ENVIRONMENT, College Park, MD.
Paper Presentation March 2011
Coping with Overabundance: Interdisciplinarity and Water in the Northeastern United States in the Twentieth Century
AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, ANNUAL MEETING, San Francisco, CA.
Poster Presentation December 2010
Inventing Wastewater: The Social and Scientific Construction of Effluent in the Northeastern United States
FOURTH-ANNUAL SOUTHERN REGIONAL CONFERENCE FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS.
Paper Presentation April 2010
If You Give Them the Inch, They’ll take 1.609344 Kilometres: The Demise of National Metrication in the United States
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY CONFERENCE, Washington, DC.
Paper Presentation March 2009
If You Give Them the Inch, They’ll take 1.609344 Kilometres: The Demise of National Metrication in the United States

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SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY, 50T H
ANNIVERSARY MEETING AND ANNUAL
CONFERENCE, Lisbon, Portugal.
Paper Presentation October 2008
If You Give Them the Inch, They’ll take 1.609344 Kilometres: The Demise of National Metrication in the United States
TEACHING
VIRGINIA TECH UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY,
Falls Church, VA.
Adjunct Professor Spring 2015
• STS 5205 – Main Themes in the History of Science (Graduate Seminar)
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, College Park, MD.
Teaching Assistant (with Professor Saverio Giovacchini) Spring 2014
• HIST142 – Looking At American Through a Global Lens (3 Sections)
Teaching Assistant (with Dr. David Tomblin) Fall 2013
• HIST204 – Introduction to the History of Science (3 Sections)
Instructor Spring 2012
• HIST208 – Old Bay: Environment and History in the Chesapeake Region (2 Sections)
Instructor Spring 2011
• HIST208 – Rivers Run Through It: Environmental History and the Chesapeake Bay (2 Sections)
Teaching Assistant (with Professor Erika Milam) Spring 2010
• HIST174 – Introduction to the History of Science (4 Sections)
Teaching Assistant (with Dr. Emily Landau) Fall 2009
• HIST157 – Introduction to American History: From the Civil War to the Present (4 Sections)
Teaching Assistant (with Professor Robert Friedel) Fall 2008
• HIST175 – Science and Technology in Western Society (4 Sections)
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, GEMSTONE PROGRAM, HONORS PROGRAM, College Park, MD.
Teaching Assistant (with Professor Thomas Zeller) Spring 2009
• GEMS104 – Topics in Science, Technology, and Society (3 Sections)
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, Ottawa, Canada.
Teaching Assistant Spring 2007
• HIS1510 – Le Monde au XXe siècle jusqu’en 1945
Teaching Assistant Fall 2006, Fall 2005
• HIS2375 – Sub-Saharan African History, 1885-Present
Teaching Assistant Spring 2006
• HIS3154 – American Foreign Policy in the 20th
Century
OTHER SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
• March 2014 – American Society for Environmental History/National Science Foundation Travel Grant - Awarded
to present a poster at the annual conference of the ASEH in San Francisco, CA.
• January 2014 – University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) Travel Grant – For travel and to
present at the ASEH annual meeting in San Francisco, CA.
• March 2013 – Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Award, the Graduate School, University of Maryland – Awarded for
travel to Montpellier, France to present at the International Water History Association’s Biennial Meeting.
• June 2012 – Network in Canadian History and Environment Travel Award – Received funds to travel and
participate in a writing workshop at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.
• March 2011 – National Science Foundation Travel Grant – Awarded to present a paper at the annual conference
of the ASEH in Phoenix, AZ.

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• December 2010 – National Science Foundation Travel Grant – Awarded to present a poster at the American
Geophysical Union’s Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
• May 2010 – Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award – Received a commendation from the University of
Maryland’s Center for Teaching Excellence.
• March 2009 – American Association for the Advancement of Science – Received a prize for the best paper and
presentation at their Science, Technology, and Society Conference in Washington, DC.
• October 2008 – Society for the History of Technology/National Science Foundation Travel Award – Awarded to
present a paper at the SHOT 50th
Anniversary Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal.
• September 2008 – Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Award, the Graduate School, University of Maryland – Travel funds
provided to attend the SHOT 50th
Anniversary Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
• American Society for Environmental History – Member since April 2011
• Society for the History of Technology – Member since October 2007
• History of Science Society – Member since November 2007
• American Historical Association – Member since October 2009
• American Geophysical Union – Member since September 2010
• Association of State Dam Safety Officials – Member since July 2011
LANGUAGES
• English – Native Language
• French – Limited Working Proficiency
• Spanish – Elementary Proficiency (Basic Conversational)