Northern Narratives: Social and Geographical Accounts from Norway, Iceland and Canada

本研究项目PI Astrid Ogilvie是一个更大的国际合作项目的美国部分，该项目是在欧洲科学基金会、欧洲核计划、BOREAS下构想的。 整个ESF项目是来自4个国家的研究人员的合作，包括美国，加拿大和冰岛。 这个特别的项目代表了美国国家科学基金会对BOREAS努力的贡献，重点关注挪威、冰岛、加拿大和阿拉斯加的北方北部地区对环境变化的社会和文化适应。 通过收集和分析来自官方和个人来源的历史文件：日记，探险笔记和出版物，农场记录和民族志叙述，以及地质，海洋学和考古学数据，研究人员将研究300年的气候变化记录以及人类对环境变化的适应和恢复能力。

ABSTRACTARC 0638897This research project, PI Astrid Ogilvie, is the US portion of a larger international collaboration that was conceived under the European Science Foundation, EUROCORES Programme, BOREAS. The full ESF project is a collaboration of researchers from 4 countries, including the US, Canada, and Iceland. This particular project, which represents the US NSF contribution to the BOREAS effort, focuses on the theme of social and cultural adaptation to environmental change in the northern boreal regions of Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Alaska. By collecting and analyzing historical documents from official and individual sources: diaries, expedition notes and publications, farm records, and ethnographic narratives, as well as geologic, oceanographic, and archeological data, the researchers will examine a 300 year record of climate change and human adaptation and resilience to environmental change.