date: Tue, 13 May 1997 15:38:03 -0600 (MDT) from: ogilvie@spot.Colorado.EDU (Astrid Ogilvie) subject: Meeting in Reykjavik to: k.briffa@uea.ac.uk Dear Keith, It was lovely to see you and Sarah. See you again in June. This is info on my meeting in Reykjavik. Wish you could come! Astrid.>Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 15:37:29 -0600 (MDT) >To: ecdc.hist@dmi.min.dk >From: ogilvie@spot.Colorado.EDU (Astrid Ogilvie) >Subject: Meeting in Reykjavik >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by spot.Colorado.EDU id >PAA22212 >Status: > >6 May 1997 > >Dear Colleagues and Friends, > >Regarding the meeting of the North European Group for Historical >Climatology, August 1997. Second circular. > >Considerable interest has been shown in our proposed meeting in Reykjavik, >Iceland in August 1997, and the organisers now need confirmation and titles >of talks from those who wish to attend. > >The keynote will be informality, but we shall be putting together a general >programme of papers. No firm decisions have been made on the publication of >papers arising, but we have had two lines of thought on this. One is that >we will not make any attempt to publish the papers. This is because we all >have our own publication plans and schedules, and some of us have found to >our cost that papers published in conference proceedings do not rate as >highly as papers published in peer-refereed journals. The other idea is >that we would consider approaching a journal with a view to producing a >special issue of that journal. > >The meeting will be held in honour of Erik Wishman and Knud Frydendahl, and >we are happy to report that they have accepted our invitation to attend the >meeting. > > >THIS MESSAGE WILL ALSO BE SENT TO ALL COLLEAGUES AT VEDURSTOFA ISLANDS (THE >ICELANDIC METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE) WHO ARE MOST WARMLY INVITED TO ATTEND, >EITHER JUST TO GRACE US WITH THEIR PRESENCE, OR TO PRESENT A PAPER, AS THEY >WISH. In this regard we wish to add a special invitation to Páll >Bergthórsson, former Director of the Icelandic Meteorological Office, and >distinguished pioneer in the field of Historical Climatology in Iceland. > >In order to accommodate the interests of as many group members (and >potential group members) as possible, we have chosen a farly wide time >frame, and a somewhat general theme for our meeting. The title will be:" >Climatic and Environmental History of Northern Europe and the North >Atlantic Region over the past 1000 years". However, we are also interested >in focusing on the so-called "Little Ice Age" in the manner of the meeting >held in Tucson in 1991 on the "Medieval Warm Period". This workshop >resulted in a special issue of the journal "Climatic Change", with an >editorial entitled: "Was there a 'Medieval Warm Period', and if so, Where >and When?". It might be profitable for us to think along these lines in >terms of: "Was there a 'Little Ice Age' in Northern Europe and and the >North Atlantic Region, and if so, precisely Where and When?" We hope that >this focus will produce some lively discussions, as well as some >interesting new data and ideas. In this regard, we may mention that we are >delighted that Jean Grove (we hope she will not mind if we term her the >"Little Ice Age" expert) has indicated her strong interest in attending our >meeting. > >Our meeting of the North European Group for Historical Climatology will >take place within the framework of a larger group meeting, that is a >meeting of NABO (The North Atlantic Biocultural Organisation). For those >unfamiliar with this group, it was founded in 1992, and your co-chair >Astrid Ogilvie was one of the original founder members. Astrid Ogilvie and >Paul Buckland (Sheffield, UK) are co-chairs of the NABO climate group. It >is because of Astrid Ogilvie's links with this group that we are joining >together with them for this meeting (and indeed benefitting from the >arrangements that they have been able to make with regard to meeting rooms >etc.) Astrid Ogilvie and Trausti Jonsson are working closely with Jón >Haukur Ingimundarsson who is the main organiser of the NABO meeting. > >NABO is a multidisciplinary, international, non-governmental, regional >research cooperative working to serve scholars interested in the >interactions of humans and changing landscapes across the broad and >critical region of the North Atlantic. While many members have a focus in >the traditional disciplines of, e.g. archaeology, anthropology, history and >geology, there is a common interest in issues such as global change >(encompassing environmental and climate history) and human dimensions >issues. Many members have a specific focus in the areas of geochronology >and bio- and zooarchaeology. NABO is supported by grants from the UK, USA >and Scandinavia, and currently has over 200 members from 46 institutions in >10 nations. As many of you will note, the name also means "neighbour" in >several Scandinavian languages. (For more information on NABO, please >contact: Sophia Perdikaris, Bioarchaeology Laboratory, Hunter College, >CUNY, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA. Tel: 212 772 5655. Fax: 212 >772 5423. Email: tmcgover@shiva.hunter.CUNY.edu). > >The NABO meeting will start on Friday 1 August and run through Sunday 3 >August. The North European Group for Historical Climatology meeting will >run through Monday 4 August and half of Tuesday 5 August. It is anticipated >that the afternoon of Tuesday 5 August will be given over to discussions >and presentations of mutual interest between our group and NABO. The >meetings will be held in the building known as "Oddi" at the University of >Iceland, Reykjavik. > >We hope to have a conference dinner for our group (and interested NABO >members) on the evening of Tuesday 5 August. > >If there is interest in this, we may be able to organise an excursion into >the countryside surrounding Reykjavik (to include the beautiful and >spectacular site of the world's oldest parliament, Thingvellir) on >Wednesday 6 August. > >Also during our meeting, the organisers and co-chairs wish to consider >re-naming our group. Our current name is somewhat clumsy, and it would be >nice to follow in the tradition of NABO, with a pleasing and appropriate >acronym. As several of us work in the North Atlantic region, we are also >interested in discussing with current members whether we should widen our >membership to include those working more specifically in that area. As may >be seen from the list of those attending, there would almost certainly be >considerable interest in this idea. One suggestion that has been made is >that our new name could be "EACH" (for European and Atlantic Climate >Historians). The sense of this would also be that each of us has something >to contribute to our group. > > > >If you wish to attend the meeting(s) please send us the following information: >1. Name, including title >2. Affiliation >3. Mailing address, plus fax, phone and email >4. The title of your talk >5. The days you wish to stay in Reykjavik >6. If you wish to attend the conference dinner >7. If you would be interested in an excursion if we could arrange it. > >The following is a list of some of those who have so far expressed interest >in attending our meeting: > >1. Erik Wishman (Invited Guest of Honour), Archaeological Museum of >Stavanger, retired. >2. Knud Frydendahl (Invited Guest of Honour), Danish Meteorological office, >retired. >3. Heikki Vesajoki, University of Joensuu >4. Andy Dugmore, The University of Edinburgh, >5. Gaston Demarée, Meteorological Office of Belgium . >6. Peter Scholefield, Chief, World Climate Data and Monitoring Programme >Division, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland > >7. Peter Jönsson, University of Lund >8. Tadeusz Niedzwiedz and >9. Zbigniew Ustrnul, the Institute of Meteorology >and Water Management in Cracow, Poland. >10. Paul Buckland, University of Sheffield, >11. Jean Grove, University of Cambridge <100701.3655@CompuServe.COM> >12. Rudolf Brazdil, Massaryk University of Brno >13. Christian Pfister, University of Bern >14. Povl Frich, Danish Meteorological Office >15. John Andrews, University of Colorado, andrewsj@spot.Colorado.EDU >16. Aslaug Geirsdóttir, University of Iceland >17. Jorunn Hardardóttir, University of Colorado > (graduate student) >18. Ingibjörg Jónsdottir, University of Cambridge, > (graduate student) >19. Laryn Micaela Smith, University of Colorado >(graduate student) >20. Lisa Barlow, University of Colorado >21. Trausti Jónsson, Meteorological Office of Iceland >22. Astrid Ogilvie, University of Colorado and University of East Anglia > > > >Below follows additional information sent initially to the NABO group by >Jon Haukur Ingimundarsson. Please note that we are sure that many of you >will very much enjoy many of the talks given within the framework of the >NABO meeting. Note especially "The conference >promises to promote a lively, informative, argumentative dialogue, and it >will include sessions focusing on both broad (regionally, >theoretically-comparative, interdisciplinary/ multidisciplinary) and long >(past-present) views." > > >Best regards from Astrid Ogilvie and Trausti Jónsson, Co-Chairs > >Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 17:42:42 +0900 >From: JINGIMUNDARSON@anthro.arizona.edu (Jón Haukur Ingimundarson) >Subject: Re: Oddi meeting etc. >To: ogilvie@spot.Colorado.EDU (Astrid Ogilvie) > >Dear Colleagues and Friends, > >This summer's NABO meeting in Reykjavik has been planned for August 1-5 >(begins Friday morning; ends Tuesday afternoon). Sponsored by the >Department of Anthropology at the University of Iceland, it will be held in >Oddi, the Social Science Building, which has good facilities and equipment >(the cafeteria; projectors, computers, xerox machine etc.). Reiknistofnun >Haskola Islands, the computer center, provides certain equipment & >services which some of us will need--especially for computer package >demonstrations, printing and converting documents. It needs to be >mentioned here that at University of Iceland Microsoft stuff for Windows >(Word, Access, Excel) is being kept up while much DOS-based hardware has >been dumped. > >It now appears that the five day multi-purpose conference in Oddi will >attract a rather large, disparate group of scientists, many of whom >represent not only themselves, but larger research teams, institutes and >organizations. The conference consists of two closely linked meetings, or >session sets: Sessions organized by Astrid Ogilvie and Trausti >Jonsson--constituting the "Meeting of the North European Group for >Historical Climatology"--will take place during August 4th and the morning >of the 5th, and come under the title: " Climatic and Environmental History >of Northern Europe and the North Atlantic Region over the past 1000 years". >With a focus on "The Little Ice Age in the North Atlantic: Was this a real >event?" (or "Little Ice Age revisited"). The other parts of our >conference--sessions and events on August 1-3 and during the afternoon of >the 5th--come under the broad heading of "The 1997 annual >meeting of the NABO working groups." It is possible that Astrid Ogilvie may >be able to arrange visits to the Manuscript Insitute at the University of >Iceland (Stofnun Arna Magnussonar) to view some of the saga manuscripts. >Also, the meeting may include a >field excursion led by Andy Dugmore and colleagues, and possibly be >followed by a field trip to Eyjafjallasveit in southern Iceland. > >In brief and broadly speaking, the main subject/topical areas around which >this summer's meeting in Oddi will be organized are: 1) Human impact on >landscape/environment and terrestrial and marine resources, 2) Impact of >environmental & climate change on people and landscape & seascape, and 3) >Political ecology & economy, environmental policy & discourse, and >ecological politics (historical and contemporary foci). The conference >promises to promote a lively, informative, argumentative dialogue, and it >will include sessions focusing on both broad (regionally, >theoretically-comparative, interdisciplinary/ multidisciplinary) and long >(past-present) views. > >We will start off the overall conference (Friday morning) with short >introductions and discussions about NABO and its working groups (Models, >Northern farming ecology, Climate, Zooarchaeology, Maritime adaptations, >Dating, Museums..?), as well as other groups/organizations/institutes which >will be represented at the meetings. Then we will go to a series of short >presentations (with overheads, slides, computer as needed) and subject >focused, problem-oriented discussions and workshops--punctuated by a few >more formal and longer presentations (on hot topics, new findings and >projects, broad issues...). One full day will be given over to >presentations/demonstrations by geographical modellers and environmental >(resource) scientists, and to focused discussions between "data holders," >theorists and environmental modellers of human-environmental interactions >in the North Atlantic region. During these sessions we will try to achieve >an appropriate balance between discussion of empirical data and related >modelling, in order to integrate modelling experiments with the >environmental record, historical document information and archaeological >datasets. You will be receiving further information about of the >conference as things continue to come together. By the middle of May we >should be able to send out a preliminary schedule, including titles of >special presentations and names of speakers, and description of various >sessions & focus discussions. > >All the best for now, >Jón Haukur Ingimundarson >Co-chair, Northern Farming Ecology Working Group > >Below is my current list over people who have expressed interest in >participating in the conference. >Olafur Arnalds, Icelandic Agricultural Research Institute (RALA) > ola@rala.is >Gretar Gudbergsson, Icelandic Agricultural Research Institute (RALA) > blaskjar@vortex.is >Halldor Thorgeirsson, Icelandic Agricultural Research Institute (RALA) > fax 577-1020 >Asa Aradottir, The Icelandic Research Institute at Mogilsa > asarsr@isholf.is >Anna Gudrun Thorhallsdottir, The Agricultural College Hvanneyri > annagudrun@hvanneyri.is >Bjorn Thorsteinsson, The Agricultural College Hvanneyri > fax 437-0048 >Andres Arnalds, Iceland Soil Conservation Service > aa.landgr@isholf.is >Throstur Eysteinsson, Iceland Forest Service > throstur@isholf.is >Aevar Petersen, Natural History Museum of Iceland > aevar@nattsf.is >Haukur Johannesson, Natural History Museum of Iceland > Haukur@nattsf.is >Maria Hildur Maack, Education Institute Kria > kriamari@ismennt.is >Gudmundur Olafsson, National Museum of Iceland > fax 552-8967 >Bjarni F. Einarsson, National Museum of Iceland > fax 552-8967 >Gardar Gudmundsson, National Museum of Iceland > gardargu@rhi.hi.is >Mjoll Snaesdottir, Icelandic Institute of Archaeology > fax 562-1791 >Adolf Fridriksson, Icelandic Institute of Archaeology > adolf@worldnet.fr >Orri Vesteinsson, Icelandic Institute of Archaeology > orri@dircon.co.uk >Gisli Palsson, Department of Anthropology, University of Iceland > gpals@rhi.hi.is >Haraldur Olafsson, Department of Anthropology, University of Iceland > fax 552-6806 >Unnur Dis Skaptadottir, Department of Anthropology, University of Iceland > unnurd@rhi.hi.is >Gudrun Olafsdottir, Department of Geography, University of Iceland > gudrunmo@raunvis.hi.is >Olof Gardarsdottir, Institute of History, University of Iceland > gag@rhi.hi.is >Niels Einarsson, The University of Iceland Akureyri > ne@ismennt.is > >Andrew J. Dugmore, Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh > ajd@geo.ed.ac.uk >Andrew R. Kerr, Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh > ark@geo.ed.ac.uk >N. R. J. Hulton, Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh >T. J. Malthus, Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh >M. B. McCulloch, Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh >A. J. Newton, Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh >R. Purves, Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh >Ian Simpson, Department of Environmental Science, U of Stirling > ias1@stir.ac.uk >Paul Buckland, Dept of Archaeology and Prehistory, U of Sheffield, > p.buckland@sheffield.ac.uk >Ingrid Mainland, Dept of Archaeology and Prehistory, U of Sheffield > i.l.mainland@sheffield.ac.uk >Gudrun Sveinbjarnardottir, London School of Economics > g.sveinbjarnardottir@lse.ac.uk >Ingibjorg Jonsdottir, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University >Agnar Helgason, Department of Anthropology, Cambridge University > ash23@cam.ac.uk > >Hans Peter Blankholm, Department of Archaeology, University of Tromso > hanspb@isv.uit.no >Ivar Berglund, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Tromso >Morten Meldgaard, Danish Polar Center > mm@dpc.min.dk >Jette Arneborg, National Museum of Denmark > gs-ja@palais.natmus.min.dk >Philip Buckland, Dept of Archaeology, Umea University > phpbud96@student.umu.se > >Thomas H. McGovern, Dept of Anthropology, Hunter College of CUNY > nabo@voicenet.com ; tmcgover@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu >Thomas Amorosi, Dept of Anthropology, Hunter College of CUNY > nabo@voicenet.com ; tamorosi@ix.netcom.com >Sophia Perdikaris, Dept of Anthropology, Hunter College of CUNY > nabo@voicenet.com ; sophiap@erols.com >Astrid Ogilvie, Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research, University of >Colorado at Boulder > ogilvie@spot. colorado.edu >Lisa Barlow, Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research, University of Colorado >at Boulder > barlow@spot.colorado.edu >Noel D. Broadbent, US NSF Polar Programs, and Dept of Archaeology, Umea >University, Sweden > noel.broadbent@arke.umu.se ; nbroadbe@nsf.gov >Daniel Vasey, Dept of Cross-Cultural Studies, Divine Word College > dvasey@aol.com >E. Paul Durrenberger, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa > pdurren@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu >Jon H. Ingimundarson, Dept of Anthropology, University of Arizona > jingimundarson@anthro.arizona.edu > > > > > > > Dr Astrid E. J. Ogilvie, Associate Director, > Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research > University of Colorado at Boulder > 1560 30th Street, Campus Box 450 > Boulder CO, 80309-0450, USA > Tel: 303-492-6072 Fax: 303-492-6388 > email: ogilvie@spot.colorado.edu > > > Dr Astrid E. J. Ogilvie, Associate Director, Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research University of Colorado at Boulder 1560 30th Street, Campus Box 450 Boulder CO, 80309-0450, USA Tel: 303-492-6072 Fax: 303-492-6388 email: ogilvie@spot.colorado.edu