Home

Home

Introduction

Research

People

 Faculty etc
 Affiliates
 Visiting Sci.
 Postdocs
 Grad. Students
 Support Staff
 Undergrads

Education

Other
Resources

Contact Us

Astrid Ogilvie

Fellow of INSTAAR.

Ph.D. University of East Anglia, 1982.

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

INSTAAR Directorate Members

Specialty: The transcription, analysis, and calibration of historical documentary climate records, in particular unpublished manuscript sources, in Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.

Research Interests: The environmental, social, and human history of countries bordering the North Atlantic regions, in particular Iceland, Greenland, Norway, and the United Kingdom; the past climate and sea-ice record of Iceland; 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 Icelandic Sagas; the history and anthropology of wetlands in Iceland and Norway; history of science; constructions of images of the north, especially Iceland; also interdisciplinary research with colleagues in a variety of fields including archaeology and anthropology, in particular through NABO (the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization) - chair of climate working group - and climate history, especially as co-chair of  EACH (European and Atlantic Climate Historians).

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 2002 she started “Longship Productions” with the aim of recording Scandinavian material, especially sagas and stories, on CDs and tapes.

Selected Publications:

  • Ogilvie, A.E.J. and Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg. 2000: Sea ice, climate and Icelandic fisheries in historical times, Arctic 53 (4), 383-394.
  • Demarée, G.R. and Ogilvie, A.E.J. 2001: Bon baisers d’Islande: climatological, environmental and human dimensions impacts in Europe of the Lakagígar eruption (1783-1784) in Iceland. (In) History and Climate: Memories of the Future? (Eds P.D. Jones, A.E.J. Ogilvie, T.D. Davies and K.R. Briffa), Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow, 219-246.
  • Jones, P.D., Ogilvie, A.E.J., Davies, T.D. and Briffa, K.B. 2001: Unlocking the doors to the past: recent developments in climate and climate-impact research. (In) History and Climate: Memories of the Future? (Eds P.D. Jones, A.E.J. Ogilvie, T.D. Davies and K.R. Briffa), Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow, 1-8.
  • Ogilvie, A.E.J. 2001: Climate and farming in northern Iceland, ca. 1700-1850. (In) Aspects of Arctic and Sub-Arctic History (Eds I. Sigurðsson and J. Skaptason.) University of Iceland Press, Reykjavík, 289-299.
  • Ogilvie, A.E.J. and Jónsson, Trausti. 2001: ‘“Little Ice Age” research: A perspective from Iceland’. Climatic Change 48, 9-52.
  • Ogilvie, A.E.J. and Jónsson, Trausti. (eds) 2001: The Iceberg in the Mist: Northern Research in Pursuit of a “Little Ice Age”. (Reprinted from Climatic Change 48) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
  • Ogilvie, A.E.J. and Pálsson, Gísli. 2003: “Mood, magic and metaphor: Allusions to weather and climate in the Sagas of Icelanders”. (In) Weather, Climate, Culture. (Ed. by S. Strauss and B. S. Orlove). Berg Publishers, 251-274.
  • Ogilvie, A.E.J. 2004: Suffering and solace: Vulnerability and resilience to environmental changes in northern Iceland c. AD 1700-1900. (In) Arctic Forum 2003. The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS), Fairbanks, AK, 17-18.
  • Ogilvie, A.E.J. 2005: Eirík the Red. (In) Encyclopedia of the Arctic. (Ed. Mark Nuttall). 3 Vols. Routledge, New York, .550-551.
  • Ogilvie, A.E.J. 2005: Local knowledge and travellers’ tales: A selection of climatic observations in Iceland (In) Icelandic Processes and Past Environments. (Eds. C. Caseldine and J. Harðardóttir), Quaternary Research Reviews. In press 2005.
  • Ogilvie, A.E.J. and Palsson, Gísli. 2006. Weather and Witchcraft in the Sagas of Icelanders. In (John McKinnel, David Ashurst, Donata Kick, eds.), The Fantastic in Old Norse/Icelandic Literature: Sagas and the British Isles, Vols. I-II. Papers from The Thirteenth International Saga Conference, Durham and York, 6-12 August 2006. The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,Durham University, Durham, 731-741.
  • Ogilvie, A.E.J. and Pálsson, Gísli. 2006. Reflections on wetlands in Iceland. In (Patrick Huse, ed.), Intimate Absence. Henie Onstad Art Center/Delta Press, Norway, 99-101.

See Also:

http://instaar.colorado.edu/people/bios/ogilvie.html
Copyright © 2003 INSTAAR, Univ. of Colorado