Fellow of INSTAAR.

Ph.D. University of East Anglia, 1982.

Astrid.Ogilvie@colorado.edu
(303) 492-6072

INSTAAR Directorate Members

Specialty: Building bridges between the humanities and the natural sciences in a wide variety of research projects in order to further understanding of long-term human ecodynamics and climate change.

Research Interests: Human ecology of Arctic and Subarctic regions; the environmental, social, and human history of countries bordering the North Atlantic regions, in particular Norway, Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador/Newfoundland; historical climatology of northern Europe, in particular, Iceland; the reconstruction of variations in the incidence of sea ice off the coasts of Iceland; the impact of climate on societies (human dimensions); human and social dynamics in the context of climatic and environmental changes; syntheses of proxy climate records; North Atlantic fisheries history; the Viking period; the medieval literature of Iceland; the history and anthropology of wetlands in Iceland and Norway; history of northern science; imagology of the north, especially Iceland; ethnographic studies in Iceland, Norway and Labrador/Nunatsiavut; the analysis of primary historical texts (in English, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish); also interdisciplinary research with numerous colleagues in a variety of fields.

Points of note: Astrid Ogilvie holds honorary positions at: the Stefansson Arctic Institute as Senior Affiliate Scientist; the Climatic Research Unit, Norwich, UK as Associate Fellow; and at Hunter College, the City University of New York, as Research Professor Adjunct in the Department of Anthropology. In 2009 she became affiliated with the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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