Northern Research Forum (NRF)
Stefansson
Arctic Institute
Borgir, Norðurslóð
IS-600 Akureyri
ICELAND
Tel +354 460 8980
Fax +354 460 8989
North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO)
NABO
is an internationally recognized non-governmental regional research cooperative with over
450 members in 14 countries. NABO includes 28 major northern research centers in North
America, EU, and Scandinavia, and has received support from European, Canadian, and
US funding sources.NABO scholars have led in combining the high-resolution proxy climate
data of the Greenland ice cores with historical and archaeological data, in providing a
regional archaeological dating program, in combining zooarchaeology with landuse and
erosion studies, in working to improve comparability of basic data sets, and in promoting
international archaeological education in the North Atlantic.
NABO has developed expertise in the study of:
- Human Impacts on terrestrial and marine ecosystems
- Effects of Climate Change on cultural and natural landscapes and seascapes
- Inter-cultural interactions and global impacts in the North Atlantic.
NABO scholars have published three major monographs, three edited volumes, over 100 articles in reviewed journals, including Science, The Holocene, Antiquity, World Archaeology, American Ethnologist, and American Anthropologist.
NABO Sponsors workshops and major meetings (NYC 1992, Glasgow 1994, Tromsø 1996, St John’s 1997, Reykjavik 1996,1997, Akureyri 1999, NYC 1999, Glasgow 2001), and has sponsored eleven doctoral dissertations since 1993.
NABO welcomes new members and active participants from all disciplines.Contact: nabo@voicenet.comNABO activity coordination centers in Iceland include the Institute of Archaeology, Iceland and the Stefansson Arctic Institute (contact: Jon Haukur Ingimundarson, senior scientist).
NABO wbsite: http://www.nabohome.org/