The Center for Environmental and Technological History (CETH) of the European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP) is affiliated with its Department of History. CETH is a research center that aims to help young college and university teachers of history in North-Western Russia who wish to develop new curricula in environmental history and the history of technology. Diretor of the Center is Dr. Julia Lajus.

The Center currently supports studies in several directions:

• History and sociology of environmental knowledge and attitudes
• Social and cultural history of recreation
• Environmental and technological history of waterworks (irrigation, canal building etc.)
• Urban environmental history (urban waste, water treatment etc.)
• Technology in Russian modernization
• Marine environmental history
• Environmental history of the Russian North
• The use of GIS in environmental history studies
• Oral history of Soviet science and technology projects

The major collective research project in the Center is on marine environmental history of Russian North - a part of international multi-centered program "History of Marine Animal Populations" (HMAP) funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as part of an even larger program "Census of Marine Life". HMAP-Russia team includes 9 researchers, both historians and biologists, from Arkhangelsk, Moscow and St. Petersburg. Prof. Daniel Alexandrov heads this team, and Julia Lajus its project manager. The main focus of the project is on compiling and analyzing data on long-term dynamic of marine animal populations and their human "predators".

The Center for Environmental and Technological History is carrying out research and organizing workshops and summer schools in environmental and technological history. In July 2003 CETH hosted International Summer School on New Trends in Historical Research "Cultural Studies vis-a-vis Environmental History, History of Technology, and Economic History" sponsored by Volkswagen Foundation and organized together with the Max-Planck Institute for History (Goettingen) and the Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin).

Lajus Julia Director, Center for Environmental and Technological History This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it	Kraikovski Alexei Associate Researcher, Center for Environmental and Technological History This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Dadykina Margarita Researcher, Center for Environmental and Technological History This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it