Interface of social sciences, humanities, and the natural sciences; long-term human ecodynamics and climate change.
I study听the human ecology of Arctic and Subarctic regions; the environmental, social, and human history of countries bordering the North Atlantic; studies of sustainability and adaptability in Iceland, Greenland, Norway and Canada; changing seasonality in the Arctic; historical climatology of northern Europe and reconstruction of sea ice incidence; syntheses of proxy climate records; North Atlantic fisheries history; the Viking Age; environmental humanities; medieval literature of Iceland; and the analysis of primary historical texts in the Nordic languages.
Positions
- Professor Adjunct, Hunter College, 蜜糖直播NY, New York
- Adjunct Professor, Royal Roads University, Canada
- Associate Professor, Arctic Research Centre (CER-ARCTIC), Autonomous University of Barcelona
- Visiting Professor, University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland
- Visiting Fellow, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Research
Current and recent grant awards
- , a Nordforsk-funded Centre of Excellence project
- funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences
- (MYSEAC) funded by RANN脥S (The Icelandic Research Fund)
- The Foundations of Map-Making and Geography in Iceland funded by RANN脥S (The Icelandic Research Fund)
- funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Pending research applications
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Convergent Challenges in the Arctic (INTERARC) to Nordforsk. PI Astrid Ogilvie
- P2C2: Reconstructing Abrupt Changes in Sea Ice Export toward the North Atlantic to NSF. PI Martin Miles
- Understanding Resilience and Long-Term Ecosystem Change in the High Arctic: Narrative-Based Analyses from Svalbard (SVALUR) to the Belmont Forum. PI Ren茅 Van der Wal
- Impacts of Cimate Change on Ocean Systems and Society: Mitigation Pathways and Adaptation Options for Sustainability (OSMOSIS) to the Belmont Forum. PI Torben Koenigk
- Environmental Syntheses of Local Knowledge and Historical and Literary Documents in the Greater M媒vatn Area of Iceland ca. AD 1700 to the Present (MYDOC) to RANN脥S (The Icelandic Research Fund). PI Vi冒ar Hreinsson.
Education
- PhD: University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 1982
Awards
- St Andrews Article Prize in European Environmental History, European Society for Environmental History, 2019
- Fellow, Royal Meteorological Society, UK, 2013
- Dorothy Martin Faculty Fellowship, University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder, 2009
Courses taught
- ANTH 4: North Atlantic Peoples and Cultures
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- Summer school course for graduate students
- Univ Iceland: Society and Environment in My虂vatnssveit Course
- For senior archaeology students at the University of Iceland, based on MYCHANGE and MYSEAC projects
- Svarta虂rkot Culture-Nature Project: Human Ecology and culture at Lake Myvatn 1700-2000
- Interdisciplinary graduate course on dimensions of environmental and cultural change
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- Interdisciplinary course in the environmental humanities and social sciences with a special focus on risk and vulnerability in Iron Age and medieval Iceland
Outreach
- 2017: Featured in the Nature Careers Feature "Hidden in the Past," on the use of historical data for climate reconstruction.
- 2016 Polar Field story: Grass, environmental change, farming, and human ecodynamics.
- 2013 interview on The Bat of Minerva, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota.
- 2012 talk "" given at the 2012 Nansen conference "In Northern Mists: Understanding the Past, Predicting the Future鈥擨celandic and Norwegian Contributions to Arctic Research."
- NORSAGA: Northern Narratives: Social and Geographical. Accounts from Norway, Iceland and Canada: PDF of a presentation on NSF-funded project.
Example publications
For additional publications, see .
Astrid E. J. Ogilvie 2019: . In Kiss, A. and Prybil, K. (eds.), The Dance of Death in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Environmental Stress, Mortality and Social Response. London: Routledge, 9-24. DOI: 10.4324/9780429491085
Demaree, G. R., Astrid E. J. Ogilvie, Kusman, D. 2019: . Journal of Seismology, 23(1): 123-133. DOI: 10.1007/s10950-018-9796-z
Hartman, S., Astrid E. J. Ogilvie, Ingimundarson, J. H., Dugmore, A. J., Hambrecht, G., McGovern, T. H. 2017: . Global and Planetary Change, 156: 123-139. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.04.007
Martin W. Miles, Divine, D. V., Furevik, T., Jansen, E., Moros, M., Astrid E. J. Ogilvie 2014: . Geophysical Research Letters, 41(2): 463-469. DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058084
Nordli, O., Przybylak, R., Astrid E. J. Ogilvie, Isaksen, K. 2014: . Polar Research, 33: 21349. DOI: 10.3402/polar.v33.21349
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