2024/2025

The Nordic Little Ice Age (1300-1900)

Lessons from Past Climate Change (NORLIA)

Humanities
Project illustration made up of Nigard Glacier, Norway, painting by Johan Christian Dahl (Bergen Kunstmuseum), and a historical temperature graph.

Principal investigators

Jens Dominik Collet

Professor
University of Oslo (UiO)
Year at CAS

Abstract

What happened the last time Nordic societies encountered rapid climate change? How did natural and social environments interact during this Little Ice Age (1300-1900)? What can be learned from the ways people adapted to challenges that are in many ways similar to the ones we face today? The Nordic Little Ice Age (NORLIA) project renders these fundamental questions researchable, using a novel 'socionatural' approach that connects climatology, history and climate communication.

Fellows

Bergsveinn Þórsson

Associate Professor
Bifröst University
Year at CAS

Brita Brenna

Professor
University of Oslo (UiO)
Year at CAS
Research Area
Humanities

Ulf Buentgen

Professor
Cambridge University
Year at CAS
Research Area
Geography

Jan Esper

Professor
Mainz University
Year at CAS
Research Area
Geography

Heli Huhtamaa

Assistant Professor
University of Bern
Year at CAS
Research Area
Climate research /
History

Kirstin Krüger

Professor
University of Oslo (UiO)
Year at CAS
Research Area
Climate research /
Geosciences /
Natural Sciences /
Physics

Hans Linderholm

Professor
Gothenburg University
Year at CAS
Research Area
Climate research /
Geography /
Geosciences /
Natural Sciences

Fredrik C. Ljungqvist

Professor
Stockholm University
Year at CAS
Research Area
Climate research /
History

Helene Løvstrand Svarva

Associate Professor
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Year at CAS

Astrid Ogilvie

Professor
University of Colorado Boulder & Stefansson Arctic Institute
Year at CAS
Research Area
Climate research /
History /
Humanities /
Social Sciences

Sam White

Professor
Helsinki University
Year at CAS

Affiliated researchers

Scott
Bremer

Dr.
University of Bergen (UiB)

Lukáš
Dolák

Dr.
Masaryk University Brno

Håkon
Glørstad

Prof. Dr.
University of Oslo (UiO)

Ingar Mørkestøl
Gundersen

Dr.
University of Oslo (UiO)

Matias
Kallevik

PhD Candidate
University of Oslo (UiO)

Wendy
Khumalo

PhD Candidate
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Bo
Poulsen

Prof. Dr.
Aalborg University

Ingar
Stene

Dr.
University of Oslo (UiO)