The public are being enlisted to read through detailed logs of whaling ships which include records of ice flows and weather conditionsMaritime historians,climate scientists and ordinary citizens are coming together on a project to study the logbooks of 19th-century whaling ships to better understand modern-day climate change and Arctic weather patterns.
The crew of whaling ships kept meticulous (extremely careful about details) daily logbooks of weather conditions during their often years-long voyages searching the globe for whales, valued for their light-giving oil, and said Michael Dyer,a senior maritime historian at the recent Bedford whaling museum in Massachusetts, which is supplying much of the data.
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Source: theguardian.com