Announcements – Page 8 – International Commission on the History of Meteorology

Food and Weather

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date February 10, 2014

ENeC, l’IEHCA, l’université de Münster sont partenaires pour organiser un colloque pluridisciplinaire en Sorbonne et à l’Institut Goethe les 2-4 avril 2014 intitulé: L’alimentation et le temps qu’il fait / Essen und Wetter

Ce colloque vise à combler une lacune dans la recherche, en étudiant les nombreuses interdépendances qui existent entre les conditions atmosphériques et les différents aspects de l’alimentation humaine.

Alors que la recherche pluridisciplinaire sur l’histoire et les cultures de l’alimentation s’est institutionnalisée, développée et diversifiée sur un plan international au cours des dernières années surtout dans le cadre de l’IEHCA (http://www.iehca.eu), celle sur le temps et le climat connaît actuellement un essor comparable, qui se manifeste notamment dans les activités du Réseau Perception du climat (EHESS : http://www.perceptionclimat.net). Une mise en regard de ces champs conceptuels semble donc féconde.

Opportunities

Open Call for “Strange Weather”

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date February 1, 2014

How Can We Model and Even Generate Weather?

Calling all future forecasters, weather hackers and planetary visionaries, Science Gallery is seeking project proposals for our upcoming summer exhibition, Strange Weather.

Strange Weather is a curated exhibition that will bring together meteorologists, artists, climate scientists, cloud enthusiasts and designers to explore how we model, predict, and even create weather.

Conference

Call for Papers: Changing Climate Change Communication

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date January 15, 2014

Please follow the link below for the CfP for a conference on “Changing climate change communication: A conference on the interactions between culture, society and language in the context of global warming”, to be held in Amsterdam on 21-22 July 2014.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/research/projects/climate-change/changing-climate-change-communication.aspx

Uncategorized

“Working Atmospheres” Workshop Report

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date December 18, 2013

Alexander Hall wrote a report on the recent ICHM meeting held in Manchester, titled “Working Atmospheres.” Click here to read his blog post.

Conference

First Encounter on History Of Meteorology in Cuba

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date December 18, 2013

On December 3, 2013, the , the Meteorological Society of Cuba (SOMETCUBA) held the First National Meeting on History of Meteorology in Havana. Click here to read the meeting memoir (pdf).

Fellowships

PhD Studentships in Climate, History and Culture at King’s College London, 2014-15

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date December 6, 2013

London Arts and Humanities Partnership is pleased to invite applications from outstanding candidates for AHRC/LAHP Doctoral Training Awards for 2014-15 entry. Up to 80 studentships are available for postgraduate research students studying Arts & Humanities at University College London, King’s College London, or School of Advanced Study (University of London) from London Arts & Humanities Partnership (AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership) 2014.

Climate History Network Fellowships

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental History/History of Science, University of Oregon

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date October 5, 2013

(cross post from the Climate History Network)

Applications are sought for a two-year National Science Foundation (NSF) funded postdoctoral fellowship at the intersection of environmental history, the history of science, and political ecology at the University of Oregon. The postdoctoral fellowship is part of Professor Mark Carey’s NSF CAREER grant (#1253779) on “Glaciers and Glaciology: How Nature, Field Research, and Societal Forces Shape the Earth Sciences” (see links below for more information). Applicants should have a research agenda that intersects with this NSF-funded project by examining historical glacier-society interactions, the history of glaciology, the history of the earth sciences, climate-society dynamics, the role of dynamic environmental change in the evolution of scientific knowledge, or the history of field-based sciences. Applicants may also have broader or more theoretical connections to the project, or they may have related regional specializations in the history of Greenland, the Arctic, Antarctica, or high mountains such as the Himalaya, Alps, or Andes.

Conference

Call for papers: Behavioral and psychological responses to weather in everyday life

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date September 30, 2013

Association of American Geographers (AAG), Annual Meeting

April 8-12^th 2014 in Tampa, Florida.

Organized by Lars Böcker (Utrecht University) and Mario Cools (University of Liège)

Intuitively, weather plays an important role in everyday life. How often do we not expose ourselves to cold, heat, sun, rain, snow or wind, or do we refer to these same elements at the coffee table or when writing post cards from a holiday address. Recently, weather has also emerged as an important policy aspect, with climate change, urban microclimates, health, accessibility, livability and subsequent aims to reduce car mobility and promote healthy but weather-exposed transport modes and physical activities high on the agenda. Yet although the influence of weather on daily life has been pervasive and its societal relevance never more pronounced, current interdisciplinary scientific debate on how weather shapes everyday life still requires further research to complete the areas that are under-investigated and provide additional empirical evidence to support policy-making. We thus seek to organize a session (or sessions), which address(es) the role of weather in daily life in its broadest sense, including behavioral or psychological responses to weather by diverse societal groups in a diverse range of geographical, cultural and climate contexts. We welcome submissions that examine topics including but not limited to:

Conference

Working atmospheres: contemporary and historical perspectives on weather and climate services

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date September 19, 2013

ICHM and CHSTM Workshop

Manchester 21 – 22 November

Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Organizers: Vladimir Jankovic (Manchester) and Samuel Randalls (UCL)

There has been relatively little historical and critical research on applied and commercial meteorology compared to that on academic research and weather forecasting. Through the twentieth century, however, commercial meteorology and industrial climatology became increasingly prominent, often attributed to a post-WW2 glut of available meteorologists and an emerging number of corporations exploring, for example, air pollution, emergencies and business interruption issues. Governments around the world have supported the development of an explicitly commercial meteorological sector to provide competition to public services in areas of weather forecasting and consultancy, although public organizations are still generally charged with collecting meteorological data and producing emergency forecasts.

Publications

New book on thermometers

Post author By ichmeteo
Post date September 17, 2013

Holland, Rainer und Gerhard Stöhr, Thermometer, Skalen und deren Väter. 210 Seiten, 75 Tafeln und Abbildungen, 2013, Selbstverlag Riedlingen, ISBN: 978-3-00-042-032-0, Preis: 34,80 €

This is a wonderful book on the development of thermometers, which gives a lot of information, pictures, and references. It includes special thermometers and the transformation of their scale in Celsius or Fahrenheit. During the German-Austrian and Swiss Meteorological Conference (DACH 2013), which took place in Innsbruck (Austria) in September 2013, the authors received the Paulus Price for the best publication in history of meteorology.

Further publications describe the handling of mercury barometers and the history of hygrometers:

Holland, Rainer und Gerhard Stöhr, Quecksilber-Barometer Handbuch.114 Seiten, zahlreiche Abbildungen, 2012, Selbstverlag Riedlingen, ISBN: 978-3-00-038294-9, Preis: 25,80 €
Holland, Rainer und Gerhard Stöhr. Geschichte der Hygrometer. 110 Seiten, ca. 80 Abbildungen, 2011, Selbstverlag Riedlingen, ISBN: 978-3-00-033734-5, Preis: 18,90 €