International Commission on the History of Meteorology“The Coldest Decade of the Millennium? The Spörer Minimum, the Climate during the 1430s, and its Economic, Social and Cultural Impact”
4 and 5 December 2014, University of Bern, Switzerland.
For further information, please download the flyer.
Please contact the organiser, Dr. Chantal Camenisch at chantal.camenisch@hist.unibe.
“Towards policy-driven research in historical climatology”
London, 5-10 July 2015
Convened by George Adamson (King’s College London)
The interrelationship climate and society during the past 500-1000 years is a fast-growing area of research within historical climatology. Substantial work has been undertaken to uncover climatic agency in the Little Ice Age, on the role of climate in the collapse of major societies such as the Classic Maya, and on adaptation strategies within pre-industrial communities. Yet historical approaches have thus-far largely failed to engage with the policy agenda. This is partly due to an epistemological divide that exists between practitioners of historical climatology and the development research community that largely dictate adaptation paradigms.
With thanks to the compiler Alex Hall, please see a list of all weather/meteorology/climate related panels and papers for the upcoming World Congress of Environmental History in Portugal. Those unable to attend can follow many of these sessions on Twitter by searching for the hashtag #WCEH2014.
November 20-21, 2014, Bergen, Norway
The International Commission on History of Meteorology (ICHM) announces four competitive travel bursaries available to graduate students and recent Ph.D.s to support their participation in a workshop hosted by the history of meteorology project at the University of Bergen. The university will provide accommodation at the workshop for the successful applicants. The bursaries are intended to support the costs of airfare, prorated by distance and cost.
Applicants should send their name, contact information, affiliation, year or expected year of Ph.D., dissertation topic or title, and a 200-word abstract of a proposed paper to Georgina Endfield, President of ICHM, Georgina.Endfield@nottingham.
The American Geophysical Union invites applications for a $5000 fellowship in the history of science to a doctoral student attending a U.S. institution who is completing a dissertation in the history of the geophysical sciences, which include topics related to atmospheric sciences, biogeosciences, geodesy, geomagnetism and paleomagnetism, hydrology, ocean sciences, planetary sciences, seismology, space physics, aeronomy, tectonophysics, volocanology, geochemistry, and petrology. The fellowship must be used during the year following the start of the 2014 fall semester/quarter.
The goal of the fellowship is to assist doctoral students in the history of the geophysical sciences with the costs of travel to obtain archival/research materials needed to complete the dissertation.
http://education.agu.org/
1. Associate Curator, Science
Salary: £22,360-£26,300 pa depending on knowledge & skills
Job Type: Full Time – Permanent
The Associate Curator of Science will work with multidisciplinary teams creating a vibrant programme of temporary exhibitions and major redisplays of our permanent collections, and will also develop a research specialism in the material culture of 18th and/or 19th century science. Candidates will have a specialist qualification in History of Science or Science and Technology Studies at undergraduate or post-graduate level, and a keen interest in the material culture of science and the storytelling power of objects.
Application Deadline: 07/07/2014 23:59.
Interviews will be held on 29 and 30 July.
For a detailed job description and application information please visit:
https://vacancies.nmsi.ac.uk/
2. Announcement #: 14A-MR-299567A-DEU-NMAH
Position Title: Supervisory Museum Curator
Open and Close Dates: June 18, 2014 – August 18, 2014
Vacancy Location: Washington, DC
Pay Plan/Series/Grades: GS-1015-14
Area of Consideration: Open to All
https://www.usajobs.gov/
The conference “Place and Practice: Doing Science in and on the Ocean 1800-2012” may be of interest to members. For more information, please see http://www.situsci.ca/event/place-and-practice-doing-science-and-ocean-1800-2012.
One of our members, John A. Kington, will be publishing a book about Frederic W. Harmer in July 2014. For more information, please see: http://afes-press-books.de/
(cross post from the Climate History Network)
On 5-6 May 2014, the Institute for Advance Study in the Humanities at Essen held a two-day workshop on “Climate Change and Global Crisis in the Seventeenth Century.”
An early release of History of Meteorology, Volume 6 is now available. Click here to read more.