Season 2 Episode 2: A Whale of a Time with Matthew Ayre

For this episode, we are joined by Matthew Ayre (PhD), a post-doctoral fellow with the Arctic Institute of North America. He has always been fascinated with the British Arctic whaling trade, and has made impressive jumps from geography to historical climatology, with a dash of archaeology thrown in. Matthew's research, using the logs from the British Arctic whaling boats to reconstruct the past Arctic climate is fascinating. We hope you enjoy this interview as much as we did!

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Intro/Outro Music

The Spaghetti Western Set by Brett Van Donsel Music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=WizFTwM_J_8&feature=emb_logo

References

Arctic Institute of North America

Appelt, M., Damkjar, E., & Friesen, M. (2016). “Late Dorset”. In The Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic. Max Friesen and Owen Mason, eds. Oxford University Press.

Friesen, T. M. (2020). Radiocarbon Evidence for Fourteenth-Century Dorset Occupation in the Eastern North American Arctic. American Antiquity, 85(2), 222-240.

Hollesen, J., Callanan, M., Dawson, T., Fenger-Nielsen, R., Friesen, T. M., Jensen, A. M., Markham, A., Martens, V. V., Pitulko, V. V., & Rockman, M. (2018). Climate change and the deteriorating archaeological and environmental archives of the Arctic. Antiquity, 92(363), 573-586. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.8.

Jeppesen, E., Appelt, M., Hastrup, K., Grønnow, B., Mosbech, A., Smol, J. P., & Davidson, T. A. (2018). Living in an oasis: Rapid transformations, resilience, and resistance in the North Water Area societies and ecosystems. Ambio, 47(s2), 296–309.