As an environmental historian, I unravel past entanglements between societies and the environments that sustained them. My current research investigates the complex and sometimes counter-intuitive ways in which a cooler, stormier, wetter climate in the seventeenth century affected human activity in Europe and the Arctic. Overall, my work reveals that the influence of climate change was - and is - shaped by the socioeconomic characteristics of different societies. Which helps scholars connect more easily .

New Interview with Dagomar Degroot. Professor Dagomar Degroot was recently interviewed for the Georgetown university homepage. Degroot discusses his forthcoming book on the resilience of the Dutch in the face of premodern climate change, and then explains one of his new projects on the environmental history of conflict and climate change in the high Arctic.