Inventing the Grand Banks: A Deep Chart. Humanities GIS, Cartesian and Literary Perceptions of the North-West Atlantic Fishery ca 1500-1800 Geo: Geography and Environment (2020)
The Fish Revolution was one of the first examples of the disrupting effects of globalization and climate change. Fish was a high-priced, limited resource in the Late Middle Ages. The Grand Banks fishery offered abundant high-quality low-priced catches to the European market. At the same time climate worsened as the Little Ice Age drove down sea temperatures and changed marine ecosystems
NorFish is a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant led by Prof Poul Holm in Trinity College Dublin, focuses on the premise that a 16th century shift in marine fish pricing and supply in conjunction with the Little Ice Age and lowering of sea temperatures not only rise to the North Atlantic Fish Revolution but also forms one of the first documented examples of the disrupting effects of globalisation and climate change.
UT Arlington Department of History Assistant Professor of Geography Dr. Charles Travis is the lead Geographical Information Systems Researcher on Norfish which draws on archaeology, history, cartography, geography, and ecology to pursue the objectives of the project.
Questions? Contact Charles Travis (charles.travis@uta.edu)