Astrid E.J. Ogilvie

Astrid Ogilvie is a climate historian and human ecologist with a focus on both the broader issues of climatic change and current Arctic issues. An insight into her work may be seen here https://bifrostonline.org/sea-ice-stories-from-iceland-and-labrador/. Her grantmanship includes leadership (PI) of several interdisciplinary international research projects funded by the National Science Foundation of the USA (NSF). Also, several awards from the Research Council of Iceland - RANNÍS, and two NordForsk Centre of Excellence awards. One of these, Arctic Climate Predictions: Pathways to Resilient Sustainable Societies (ARCPATH) is described in Ogilvie et al., 2024 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-023-3333-x. Astrid Ogilvie is currently a Co-PI on the projects: Northern Knowledge for Resilience, Sustainable Environments and Adaptation in Coastal Communities (NORSEACC) funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRCC) of Canada; the Belmont Forum project Understanding Resilience and Long-Term Ecosystem Change in the High Arctic: Narrative-Based Analyses from Svalbard (SVALUR); and the National Science Foundation  (NSF) award Navigating the New Arctic Project: Navigating Impacts of the Arctic Tourism Industry on Nature, Commerce, and Culture in Northern Communities. A recently completed project is the NSF funded: Synthesizing Historical Sea-Ice Records to Constrain and Understand Great Sea-Ice Anomalies. A newly awarded project (NSF, 2025) focuses on Greenland: Harmful Algal Blooms in Greenland Waters: Impacts on Human Health in Ilulissat/Disko Bay. The primary goal is to undertake exploratory and transformative research on the potential impacts of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) on human health in western Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat). During 2024-2025 her main focus has been on a project entitled The Nordic Little Ice Age (1300-1900): Lessons from Past Climate Change (NORLIA). This is funded by the Centre for Advanced Study under the auspices of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo, Norway (https://cas-nor.no/project/nordic-little-ice-age-1300-1900-norlia) and, among other products, has resulted in an edited volume Nordic Climate Histories: Impacts, Pathways, Narratives which is available on open access https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2025/05/02/nordicclimatehistories/. Astrid Ogilvie's teaching activities include designing and teaching an undergraduate course at the University of Colorado: “North Atlantic Peoples and Cultures”. Awards and honours include the Dorothy Parker Faculty Fellowship from the University of Colorado, Boulder, awarded for “being a creative force in her field” and a Fulbright Scholarship to Iceland. She is the author of some 100 scientific papers and three edited books. A jointly-authored article was awarded the 2019 St Andrews Article Prize from the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) see https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.04.007. Astrid Ogilvie is a Research Professor at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) at the University of Colorado, a Senior Associate Scientist at the Stefansson Arctic Institute in Akureyri, Iceland and a Visiting Professor at the University of the Highlands and Islands, Orkney, Scotland. See e.g., https://www.colorado.edu/instaar/astrid-e-j-ogilvie and https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/archaeology-institute/staff/professor-astrid-ogilvie/.