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Data in the wind: Mining climate clues from whaling ship logbooks at PPL
PPL's Donald J. Farish Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Supported by funding from Rhode Island-based FM Global corporation, the project is harvesting historical weather data to further current climate change research. Using the unique whaling ship logbooks in PPL’s Nicholson Whaling Collection, dating as far back as the late 1700s, this project addresses increasingly urgent issues surrounding climate by extracting previously unmined weather information.
Learn more about this exciting project and findings to date as we share them with the public for the first time! Jordan Goffin, Head Curator of Special Collections at PPL, Caroline Ummenhofer, a climate scientist from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Timothy Walker, a maritime historian at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, will present on the Nicholson Whaling Collection, its application to current climate change research, findings and results of the project, and next steps and the future of this work.
Attendees will also have the opportunity to see a selection of the whaling logbooks and other collection materials first hand in PPL’s Special Collections Reading Room prior to the program. Registration suggested.
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