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
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>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 Pll
>Bergthrsson, 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 Jn
>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 <Heikki.Vesajoki@joensuu.fi>
>4. Andy  Dugmore, The University of Edinburgh, <ajd@geo.ed.ac.uk>  
>5. Gaston Demare,  Meteorological Office of Belgium <gdemaree@oma.be>.
>6. Peter Scholefield, Chief, World Climate Data and Monitoring Programme
>Division, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland           
>         <scholefield_p@gateway.wmo.ch>    
>7. Peter Jnsson, University of Lund <Peter.Jonsson@natgeo.lu.se>
>8. Tadeusz Niedzwiedz and 
>9. Zbigniew Ustrnul, the Institute of Meteorology
>and Water Management in Cracow, Poland. <ziustrnu@cyf-kr.edu.pl>
>10. Paul Buckland, University of Sheffield, <P.Buckland@sheffield.ac.uk>
>11. Jean Grove, University of Cambridge <100701.3655@CompuServe.COM>
>12. Rudolf Brazdil, Massaryk University of Brno <brazdil@porthos.geogr.muni.cz>
>13. Christian Pfister, University of Bern <pfister@ubeclu.unibe.ch>
>14. Povl Frich, Danish Meteorological Office <pf@dmi.min.dk>
>15. John Andrews, University of Colorado, andrewsj@spot.Colorado.EDU  
>16. Aslaug Geirsdttir, University of Iceland
>17. Jorunn Hardardttir, University of Colorado
><hardardo@spot.colorado.edu> (graduate student) 
>18. Ingibjrg Jnsdottir, University of Cambridge,
><jonsdott@stripe.Colorado.EDU> (graduate student) 
>19. Laryn Micaela Smith, University of Colorado <laryn@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
>(graduate student)
>20. Lisa Barlow, University of Colorado <barlowl@spot.Colorado.EDU>
>21. Trausti Jnsson, Meteorological Office of Iceland <trausti@hagl.vedur.is>
>22. Astrid Ogilvie, University of Colorado and University of East Anglia
><Ogilvie@spot.Colorado.EDU>
>
>
>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 Jnsson, Co-Chairs
>
>Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 17:42:42 +0900
>From: JINGIMUNDARSON@anthro.arizona.edu (Jn 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,
>Jn 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
                     


