Arctic articles from December 2000

Arctic archives from December 2000

Palaeoecological implications of archaelogical seal bone assemblages: case studies from Labrador and Baffin Island.
December 1, 2000... (Received 7 April 1999; accepted in revised form 15 September 2000) ABSTRACT. In recent years, increasing scientific attention has been paid to sea mammals as biological indicators of Arctic environmental change. The usefulness of animals...

Holocene bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) mortality patterns in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
December 1, 2000... (Received 13 April 1999; accepted in revised form 25 April 2000) ABSTRACT. Changes according to elevation in frequencies of naturally stranded bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) remains on Holocene beaches in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago...

Imaging the Arctic.
December 1, 2000... IMAGING THE ARCTIC. Edited by J.C.H. KING and HENRIETTA LIDCHI. Vancouver and Seattle: UBC Press and University of Washington Press, 1998. ISBN 0-7748-0672-9. 256 p., maps, b&w illus., bib., index. Softbound. Cdn$49.95. Imaging the Arctic,...

Echoing silence: essays on Arctic narrative.
December 1, 2000... ECHOING SILENCE: ESSAYS ON ARCTIC NARRATIVE. Edited by JOHN MOSS. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1997. ISBN 0-7766-0441-4. vii + 232 p. Softbound. Cdn$27.00. One of the great delights of northern scholarship is its diversity. Northern...

Arctic Journal.
December 1, 2000... ARCTIC JOURNAL. By BERN WILL BROWN. Ottawa: Novalis, 1998. 226 p., maps, b&w illus., index. Hardbound. Cdn$23.95. The two volumes of former Catholic Priest Bern Will Brown's Arctic Journal lead the reader through the author's 50 years in...

Arctic Journal II: a time for a change.
December 1, 2000... ARCTIC JOURNAL II: A TIME FOR CHANGE. By BERN WILL BROWN. Ottawa: Novalis, St. Paul University, 1999.350 p., map, colour illus., index. Hardbound. Cdn$32.95. The two volumes of former Catholic Priest Bern Will Brown's Arctic Journal lead...

General geocyology.
December 1, 2000... GENERAL GEOCRYOLOGY. By E.D. YERSHOV. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-521-47344-9. xxiii + 580 p., b&w illus., bib., index. Hardbound. US$120.00. The Earth's polar regions are among the coldest, harshest and most remote...

Under polaris: an Arctic quest.
December 1, 2000... UNDER POLARIS: AN ARCTIC QUEST. By TAHOE TALBOT WASHBURN. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. xii + 247 p., b&w illus., maps, glossary, appendix, bib., indexes. Hardbound. US$27.50. Many times during the last 100...

Search for the North West passage.
December 1, 2000... THE SEARCH FOR THE NORTH WEST PASSAGE. By ANN SAVOURS. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. ISBN 0-312-22372-2. x + 342 p., maps, b&w illus., notes, appendices, index. Hardbound. Cdn$43.50; US$29.95. The Northwest Passage is the name for...

Awards: (2000 Massey Medal awarded to Robert McGhee).
December 1, 2000... On October 19, Governor General Adrienne Clarkson presented this year's Massey Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society to AINA Fellow and Life Member, Dr. Robert McGhee. Dr. McGhee has been the curator of Arctic archaeology at the...

Awards: (Order of Canada awarded to Ian Stirling).
December 1, 2000... Our congratulations to AINA Fellow and Life Member Ian Stirling, who in April became an Officer in the Order of Canada in recognition of his outstanding research on polar bear population ecology. Dr. Stirling's formal induction into the Order...

AINA news.
December 1, 2000... New AINA Fellows and Research Associates At the October 2000 AINA board meeting, Dr. Thomas F. Albert and Dr. A. Sathy Naidu were elected as Fellows of the Arctic Institute of North America. Dr. Albert lives in Barrow, Alaska, where he is...

Arctic 50 years ago.
December 1, 2000... * During the summer of 1950, McGill University offered a six-week summer field school in geography at Stanstead College, Quebec. Patrick Baird, then director of the Montreal office of the Arctic Institute, directed the Arctic program. Baird, F....