A Breeze from the Past: Uncovering Climate Clues from Whaling Ship Logbooks (Falmouth)
Falmouth Museums on the Green 65 Palmer Ave, Falmouth, MA, United StatesBringing together oceanographer Dr. Caroline Ummenhofer from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Dr. Timothy Walker, Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, our project examines the use of weather recordings contained in American whaling voyage logbooks to assess changes in climate and weather patterns. We focus on unexploited caches of archival documentation, namely […]