Climate History Network

A network of interdisciplinary scholars studying past climate change

A Conversation with Sam White

For the second episode of the Climate History Podcast, Dr. Dagomar Degroot interviews the co-founder and co-administrator of the Climate History Network: Dr. Sam White of Ohio State University. Professor … Continue reading

November 30, 2015 · Leave a comment

Old World Drought Atlas Online

The Old World Drought Atlas is now online, offering gridded reconstructions of annual wet/dry conditions in Europe and the Mediterranean over the past 2,000 years, based on a network of … Continue reading

November 7, 2015 · Leave a comment

Workshop Report: The Paleoclimate-Dendroclimatology Workshop for Pre-Modernists

By Preston Lann, Georgetown University The Paleoclimate-Dendroclimatology Workshop for Pre-Modernists was presented at Princeton University on September 15-17, 2015. It was arranged by Princeton University Department of History staff Dr. John … Continue reading

October 10, 2015 · Leave a comment

Princeton Climate Change and History Research Intiative

John Haldon and colleagues at Princeton have launched a website for the Climate Change and History Research Initiative.  This interdisciplinary project will investigate the impact of climatic changes across the … Continue reading

September 17, 2015 · Leave a comment

CfP: Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change 2016

Anthropology, Weather & Climate Change “The Royal Anthropological Institute is delighted to announce a major conference entitled “Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change” which will take place at the British Museum, … Continue reading

September 3, 2015 · Leave a comment

Post-Doc Opporturnity: UC Institute for the Study of the Ecological Effects of Climate Impacts (ISEECI)

The newly formed UC Institute for the Study of the Ecological Effects of Climate Impacts (ISEECI) has posted three postdoctoral fellowship announcements on its website: http://nrs.ucop.edu/research/iseeci/index.htm Two of these–on biotic communities … Continue reading

September 2, 2015 · Leave a comment

Climate History Podcast Launched with Dr. Geoffrey Parker

Dagomar Degroot has launched our new Climate History Podcast by interviewing Geoffrey Parker, author of Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century. If you have iTunes, you can … Continue reading

July 28, 2015 · Leave a comment

Call for Abstracts: Winter Ecology in Northeastern Naturalist

By Thomas Wickman, Trinity College I am pleased to announce an opportunity for environmental historians, historians of science, or historical climatologists to contribute research articles to a special issue of … Continue reading

July 18, 2015 · Leave a comment

Conference Report: International Conference of Historical Geographers 2015

This year’s ICHG in London brought together more than a dozen panels about climate and weather in history, and the history of climatology and meteorology.  I have attached a conference … Continue reading

July 13, 2015 · Leave a comment

Call for Proposals: International Congress of History of Science Technology and Medicine

The 25th International Congress of History of Science, and Technology (ICHST) will be held in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 23 to 29 July 2017.  The call … Continue reading

July 13, 2015 · Leave a comment