Astrid E. J. Ogilvie

Research Associate III / Fellow
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
University of Colorado at Boulder
Campus Box 450
1560 30th Street
Boulder, CO 80309-0450

Education

1973: B.A. Hons. Class Upper Second in the School of European History and Modern Languages.
University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
1982: Ph.D. Dissertation Climate and Society in Iceland from the Medieval Period to the Late Eighteenth Century. School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.

Positions Held

2004-Present: Research Professor Adjunct, (Honorary position) Hunter College, CUNY
2000-Present: Senior Affiliate Scientist (Honorary position), Stofnun Vilhjálms Stefánssonar, Iceland
1998-Present: Research Associate III, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, CU Boulder
1995-1998: Research Associate II, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, CU Boulder
1996-1998: Associate Director, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, CU Boulder
1994: Visiting Scientist, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, CU Boulder
1978-1995: Senior Research Associate, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia
1974-1978: Research Associate, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia

10 Most Relevant Publications

Ogilvie, A.E.J. and Jónsdóttir, I. 2000. Sea ice, climate and Icelandic fisheries in historical times, Arctic 53 (4), 383-394.
Ogilvie, A.E.J. and McGovern T.H. 2000. Sagas and science: climate and human impacts in the North Atlantic. (In) Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga (Eds W. W. Fitzhugh and E. I. Ward), Smithsonian Instititution Press, Washington, 385-393.
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. and Jónsson, T. 2001. Little Ice Age research: A perspective from Iceland. Climatic Change 48, 9-52.
Ogilvie, A.E.J. and Jónsson, T. (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. 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. 2004. Suffering and solace: Vulnerability and resilience to environmental changes in northern Iceland c. AD 1700-1900. (In) Abstracts from the Arctic Forum 2003. The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS), Fairbanks, AK, 17-18.
Ogilvie, A.E.J. 2005. Local knowledge and travellers’ tales: A selection of climatic observations in Iceland. (In) Iceland - Modern Processes and Past Environments, Developments in Quaternary Science 5. Series Editor Jim Rose. (Eds. C. Caseldine, A. Russell, J. Harðardóttir and O.Knudsen), Elsevier, Amsterdam-Boston-Heidelberg-London, 257-287.
Ogilvie, A.E.J. and Pálsson, Gísli. 2006. Reflections on wetlands in Iceland. (In) Intimate Absence. (Ed. Patrick Huse), Henie Onstad Art Center/Delta Press, Norway.
Ogilvie, A.E.J. 2006. Bréf sýslumanna til stiftamtmanns og amtmanns: Environmental images of nineteenth-century Iceland from official letters written by district sheriffs. (In) The Discovery of Nineteenth Century Scandinavia as Reflected in Travel-Writing, Essays, Letters and Fiction Written by Scandinavians and Others. (Ed. Marie Wells), Norvik Press, Norwich. In press.

Scientific Collaborators of the last 48 months

G. R. Demarée, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Ringlaan 3, B-1180, Brussels, Belgium; Árni Einarsson, Mývatn Research Station IS-660 Mývatn, Iceland; Níels Einarsson and Jón Haukur Ingimundarson, Stefánsson Arctic Institute, Solborg, 600 Akureyri, Iceland; Brian Hill, Natural Research Council, Institute for Ocean Technology, P.O. Box 12093, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; Sumarliði Ísleifsson, The Reykjavík Academy, 107 Reykjavik, Iceland; Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir, Department of Geology and Geography, University of Iceland, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland; Þor Jakobsson and Trausti Jónsson, Veðurstofa Íslands, Bústaðavegi 9, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland; J. R. McGoodwin, Department of Anthropology, Campus Box 233, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303, USA; Thomas H. McGovern, Dept. of Anthropology, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY 10021, USA; Gísli Pálsson, Director, Institute of Anthropology, University of Iceland, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland; William P. Patterson, Department of Geological Sciences, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon SK S7N 5E2, Candada; J.C. Rogers, Dept. of Geography, 1036 Derby Hall, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH 43210-1361; Ian A. Simpson, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, UK; Orri Vésteinsson, Faculty of Humanities, University of Iceland, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland; Hjálmar Vilhjálmsson, Marine Research Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland; Peter Wadhams, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK.

Graduate students

External Supervisor for Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir (Registered for the Ph.D. Degree at the University of Cambridge, England).
Ph.D. Committee for Ragnar Edvardsson, Candidate in Archaeology and Anthropology, Hunter College, CUNY.
Graduate Advisor
Professor H.H. Lamb

Committees

Co-Chair of EACH (European and Atlantic Climate Historians); Chair of Climate Working Group of NABO (North Atlantic Biocultural Organization); Board Member of ARCUS (Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S).

Research Interests

Environmental, climatic, social, and human history of countries bordering the North Atlantic regions, in particular Iceland, Greenland, Norway and the United Kingdom; The analysis of primary historical texts (in English, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish); 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); Comparison, integration and syntheses of climate proxy time series; Imagery of northern countries.

Synergistic Activities

I have worked with colleagues from different disciplines in the promotion of interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and international cooperation all my professional life. To this end I was one of the founder members of the NABO (North Atlantic Biocultural Organization) in 1990. As an historian of the climate and the environment I have also sought to bring a “human dimensions” element to many research projects. The wealth of my synergistic activities is attested to by my list of collaborative colleagues above.