Arctic articles from December 2003

Arctic archives from December 2003

Canada, the Antarctic and the Madrid Protocol.(Commentary)
December 1, 2003... The House of Commons of Canada passed Bill C-42, An Act respecting the protection of the Antarctic Environment, in June 2003. By it, Canada ratifies the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (the "Madrid Protocol"), which...

New ways of mapping: using GPS mapping software to plot place names and trails in Igloolik (Nunavut).(Global Positioning System)
December 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. The combined use of a GPS receiver and mapping software proved to be a straightforward, flexible, and inexpensive way of mapping and displaying (in digital or paper format) 400 place names and 37 trails used by Inuit of Igloolik, in...

Streamflow in the Mackenzie Basin, Canada.
December 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. Rivers of the Mackenzie Basin exhibit several seasonal flow patterns that include the nival (snowmelt dominated), proglacial (influenced by glacier melt), wetland, prolacustrine (below large lakes), and regulated flow regimes. The...

Gyrfalcon feeding behavior during the nestling period in central West Greenland.
December 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. We studied gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) food delivery and feeding behavior during the nestling period in central West Greenland during the 2000 and 2001 field seasons. We used time-lapse video cameras installed at three nests to...

Human Dorset remains from Igloolik, Canada.
December 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. Skeletal remains of four Dorset Palaeo-Eskimo individuals were found at Alarnerk (NhHd-1), Melville Peninsula, in 1954 by the joint Danish National Museum-University of Pennsylvania Expedition, which was excavating Dorset and...

Polar bear aerial survey in the eastern Chukchi Sea: a pilot study.
December 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. Alaska has two polar bear populations: the Southern Beaufort Sea population, shared with Canada, and the Chukchi/Bering Seas population, shared with Russia. Currently a reliable population estimate for the Chukchi/Bering Seas...

Reevaluating the co-management success story.
December 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. The integration of science and traditional knowledge (TEK), a cornerstone of contemporary cooperative management, entails translating First Nation people's life experiences into forms compatible with state wildlife management (e.g.,...

Catastrophic die-off of Peary caribou on the western Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canadian High Arctic.
December 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. The Peary caribou (Rangifer tarandus pearyi) is an endangered species in Canada, having been in an overall decline since 1961. Sightings of Peary caribou were compared from two aerial searches, in 1993 and 1998, on Bathurst and its...

A review of apparent 20th century changes in the presence of mussels (Mytilus trossulus) and macroalgae in Arctic Alaska, and of historical and paleontological evidence used to relate mollusc distributions to climate change.
December 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. Live mussels attached to fresh laminarioid brown algae, all fastened to clusters of pebbles and small cobbles, were repeatedly cast ashore by autumn storms at Barrow, Alaska, in the 1990s. Specimens of Laminaria saccharina and L....

Observations of wood bison swimming across the Liard River, Northwest Territories, Canada.
December 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. We observed a group of 18 wood bison, of mixed sex and age classes, swimming across a 1.7 km wide section of the Liard River on 16 July 2002. Water levels and flow rates were above the long-term average for that time of year, and...

HUNTING THE 1918 FLU: ONE SCIENTIST'S SEARCH FOR A KILLER VIRUS.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... HUNTING THE 1918 FLU: ONE SCIENTIST'S SEARCH FOR A KILLER VIRUS. By KIRSTY DUNCAN. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8020-8478-5. xvi + 297 p., 1 map, b&w illus., bib., index. Hardbound. Cdn$35.00. This book deals mainly...

MANY FACES OF GENDER: ROLES AND RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH TIME IN INDIGENOUS NORTHERN COMMUNITIES.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... MANY FACES OF GENDER: ROLES AND RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH TIME IN INDIGENOUS NORTHERN COMMUNITIES. Edited by LISA FRINK, RITA S. SHEPARD and GREGORY A. REINHARDT. Boulder and Calgary: University Press of Colorado and University of Calgary Press,...

NUNAVIK: INUIT-CONTROLLED EDUCATION IN QUEBEC.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... NUNAVIK: INUIT-CONTROLLED EDUCATION IN QUEBEC. By ANN VICK-WESTGATE. Calgary: University of Calgary Press and the Arctic Institute of North America and Katutjiniq: Nunavik's Regional Development Council, 2002. xx + 337 p., maps, b&w and colour...

ANTARCTICA: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA FROM ABBOTT ICE SHELF TO ZOOPLANKTON.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... ANTARCTICA: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA FROM ABBOTT ICE SHELF TO ZOOPLANKTON. Edited by MARY TREWBY. Toronto, Ontario: Firefly Books Ltd., 2002. ISBN 1-55297-590-8. 208 p., colour and b&w illus., bib., index. Hardbound. Cdn$35.00. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF...

AN APOSTLE OF THE NORTH: MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT REVEREND WILLIAM BOMPAS.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... AN APOSTLE OF THE NORTH: MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT REVEREND WILLIAM BOMPAS. By H.A. CODY. Introduction by WILLIAM R. MORRISON and KENNETH S. COATES. Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press, 2002. ISBN 0-88864-400-0. lxxxv + 391 p., maps, b&w...

BIRD TRADITIONS OF THE LIME VILLAGE AREA DENA'INA: UPPER STONY RIVER ETHNO-ORNI-THOLOGY.
December 1, 2003... BIRD TRADITIONS OF THE LIME VILLAGE AREA DENA'INA: UPPER STONY RIVER ETHNO-ORNI-THOLOGY. By PRISCILLA N. RUSSELL and GEORGE C. WEST, with editorial and linguistic comments by JAMES KARI and illustrations by GEORGE C. WEST. Fairbanks: Alaska...

PAPERS TO APPEAR IN ARCTIC.
December 1, 2003... PAPERS TO APPEAR IN ARCTIC BRUNNER, R.D., LYNCH, A.H., PARDIKES, J., CASSANO, E.N., LESTAK, L., and VOGEL, J. An Arctic Disaster and its Policy Implications. BARBER, D.G., and IACOZZA, J. Historical Analysis of Sea Ice Conditions in...

Letters to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2003... Dear Editor: It was entirely appropriate that the contribution by Randall J. Osczevski on "Frederick Cook and the Forgotten Pole" in the June 2003 issue of Arctic was placed in the "InfoNorth" section, which we may assume is not...

Letters to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2003... Dear Editor: I acknowledge my error in adding an unnecessary "e" to the end of Ted Heckathorn's name and apologize for referring to him as a member of the Frederick A. Cook (FAC) Society when he is not. Membership does not imply a loss of...

Letters to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2003... Dear Editor: In his letter to the editor (Arctic 56(2):205-206), Spencer Apollonio reveals some very interesting background information on Gunnbj[empty set]rns Fjaeld, the highest mountain in Greenland. Unfortunately, the geographical...

David Moody Hopkins (1921-2001).(Obituaries)(Obituary)
December 1, 2003... David M. Hopkins, a Quaternary geologist widely known for his broad-ranging studies of the Bering Land Bridge region ("Beringia"), passed away at his home in Menlo Park, California, on November 2, 2001. Dave was a long-time member of Alaskan...

Louis Otto Quam (1906-2001).(Obituaries)(Obituary)
December 1, 2003... Louis O. Quam, highly respected geologist/geographer, academician, and government science administrator, died on 25 July 2001 at age 95. He was best known in the United States and Canada, but widely recognized in several other countries for his...

A multiscale study of tree-line dynamics in southwestern Yukon.(Info North)
December 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION A CONSISTENT PREDICTION OF GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH is that climate warming will be greatest in Arctic and Subarctic regions, and recent trends certainly support these predictions. The potential ecological impacts of such change...

The evolutionary ecology of Arctic fishes.(Infonorth)
December 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION THE NORTHERN OCEANS, CANADA'S LARGEST MARINE environment, are undergoing disquieting changes in habitat and climate. Nonetheless, northern oceans have received limited attention from researchers, while work has focused on more...

NSTP funding increased.(Northern News)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... On October 25, 2003, the federal department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) announced that funding to the Northern Scientific Training Program (NSTP) will increase to $1 million per year beginning in 2004. The NSTP encourages...

Northern Science Award to AINA Fellow.(Northern News)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... At a ceremony in Edmonton, Alberta, on October 25, 2003, AINA life member and Fellow Dr. Ian Stirling was awarded the Northern Science Award for 2003. Dr. Stirling has been a research scientist for the Canadian Wildlife Service for over 30...

Finalist for Canada's top science prize.(Northern News)
December 1, 2003... Another longtime AINA life member and Fellow, Dr. John Smol of Queen's University, is one of three finalists for the 2003 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering. Dr. Smol is recognized for his pioneering work in...

New AINA Board Chair.(AINA News)
December 1, 2003... The October 2003 meeting of the AINA Board of Directors marked Murray Todd's final meeting as Chair. The incoming Chair is Michel Scott, Vice President: Frontiers with Devon Canada Corporation in Calgary. Marion LaVigne, President and a...

New AINA Fellow.(AINA News)
December 1, 2003... At the October 2003 meeting of the AINA Board of Directors, Dr. Lawrence K. Duffy was elected as a Fellow of the Arctic Institute. Dr. Duffy is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Alaska Fairbanks...

New AINA research associates.(AINA News)
December 1, 2003... Two new research associates were also added to the AINA roster at the October meeting of the Board of Directors. Dr. Gunhild Hoogensen is a post-doctoral fellow in International Relations in the Department of Political Science, University of...

ASTIS news.(AINA News)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... ASTIS has begun work on a major expansion of the Nunavut Environmental Database (NED) for the Nunavut Planning Commission. The NED describes publications and research projects about Nunavut, covers all subjects, and currently contains more than...

Nunavik Bibliography now available.(AINA News)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The Nunavik Bibliography is a cooperative long-term project to build a comprehensive bibliographic database about Nunavik. The database covers Nunavik (Quebec north of 55[degrees]), the nearby Nunavut islands including the Belcher Islands,...

The Jim Bourque Scholarship.(AINA News)
December 1, 2003... For the third year in a row, the Jim Bourque Scholarship has been awarded to Jeffrey Rouse of Thornhill, Ontario. Mr. Rouse is currently attending York University, where he is enrolled in the Master of Environmental Studies/Bachelor of Laws...

Fraser Professorship awarded.(AINA News)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... John Graham, a professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary, is the second recipient of the Fraser Professorship in Community Economic Development. Established in honour of the late Murray Fraser, professor and past...

Past editor honoured.(AINA News)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Dr. Leonard Hills, AINA Fellow and past editor of Arctic, was admitted to the Order of the University of Calgary at a ceremony held at the University Club on November 10. Membership in the Order honours individuals who have made distinguished...

Conferences.(Infonorth)(Calendar)
December 1, 2003... 43rd Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association, Remote Regions/Northern Development Sessions 25-28 February 2004, Wailea, Maui, Hawaii Website: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~plane/wrsa.html 5th Circumpolar Ecosystems...

Message from the chair of the AINA Board.(The Arctic Institute of North America Annual Report 2003)
December 1, 2003... As this year for the Arctic Institute of North America comes to a close, so does my term as Chairman. Two years have gone by quickly. One always has mixed feelings at this point--I feel a sense of loss as I leave behind friends and associates...

Message from the executive director.(The Arctic Institute of North America Annual Report 2003)
December 1, 2003... This last year has gone by very quickly, and now it is a privilege to reflect on the many rewarding moments I have experienced. Since my arrival at the Arctic Institute, I have been preoccupied with enhancing its research profile. To that...

Arctic.(The Arctic Institute of North America Annual Report 2003)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The year 2003 marked Arctic's fifty-sixth year of publishing the results of northern research. We published 36 research articles in the four issues for 2003: 11% from the physical sciences, 25% from the social sciences, and 64% from the...

The Northern Lights Series.(The Arctic Institute of North America Annual Report 2003)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The mandate of this joint AINA and University of Calgary Press publication series is to publish works of a nontechnical nature from all areas of northern scholarship: the natural, social, and earth sciences and the humanities. The geographical...

Arctic Science and Technology Information System.(The Arctic Institute of North America Annual Report 2003)
December 1, 2003... The Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS) is Canada's northern abstracting and indexing service. The ASTIS database contains 53,000 records describing publications and research projects about northern Canada that cover all...

Photographic archives.(The Arctic Institute of North America Annual Report 2003)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... During the past year, research associate Constance Martin, assisted by research archivist Lars Christensen, made important progress on cataloguing AINA's collection of more than 4000 photographs. Brought to AINA from the Montreal offices at...

AINA Library.(The Arctic Institute of North America Annual Report 2003)
December 1, 2003... The Arctic Institute Library continues to grow through the purchase of books and serials by the University of Calgary Library, through the receipt of polar journals in exchange for the journal Arctic (supplied by the Arctic Institute for...

Scholarships.(The Arctic Institute of North America Annual Report 2003)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The Arctic Institute administers three scholarships established by the families and friends of Jennifer Robinson, Lorraine Allison, and Jim Bourque, P.C. The Jennifer Robinson Scholarship, valued at $5000, is awarded for academic excellence in...

AINA Grant-in-Aid program.(The Arctic Institute of North America Annual Report 2003)
December 1, 2003... In 2003, the Grant-in-Aid Committee received 18 applications and was able to fund nine grants of US$1000 each. The 2003 Committee consisted of Peter Johnson, Matthew Sturm, Stephen Braund, and Erich Follmann, chair. These are the winners...

Northern Scientific Training Program.(The Arctic Institute of North America Annual Report 2003)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The Northern Scientific Training Program (NSTP) grants have been adjudicated and administered by the Arctic Institute since the University of Calgary first applied for grants in 1979-80. Established in 1961 by the Department of Indian Affairs...

Kluane Lake Research Station.(The Arctic Institute of North America Annual Report 2003)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The Kluane Lake Research Station (KLRS) is located near the Alaska Highway, 220 km northwest of Whitehorse, Yukon, on the south shore of Kluane Lake (61[degrees]N, 139[degrees]W). The extreme elevation difference between Kluane Lake and the...

Research Associates.(The Arctic Institute of North America Annual Report 2003)
December 1, 2003... Research Associates are appointed by the Board of Directors. Currently the Institute has 48 research associates: 17% involved in natural science research, 10% from the physical sciences, 15% from the humanities and fine arts, and the remaining...

Publications of research associates & staff.(The Arctic Institute of North America Annual Report 2003)
December 1, 2003... Books and Articles Published in 2003 BIELAWSKI, E. Rogue diamonds: The rush for northern riches on Dene land. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre. 256 p. CLARKE, G.K.C., LEVERINGTON, D.W., TELLER, J.T., and DYKE, A.S. Superlakes, megafloods,...

2003 AINA lecture series.(The Arctic Institute of North America Annual Report 2003)
December 1, 2003... April 07: Richard C. Davis, Department of English, University of Calgary, "Tall Men Telling Tales: R.M. Patterson's Nahanni River." October 22: Peter Johnson, Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, "Canadian Arctic Science: New...

Fellows.(The Arctic Institute of North America Annual Report 2003)
December 1, 2003... Fellows of the Arctic Institute of North America are elected in recognition of significant contributions to the knowledge of polar and subpolar regions. The Institute currently has 303 Fellows. Anyone wishing to nominate a Fellow can obtain a...

Financial report for the fiscal year ended March 31 2003 (condensed).(The Arctic Institute of North America Annual Report 2003)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... The Institute's financial year ends on March 31 and the figures here reflect the latest complete year and comparatives. The information presented in this document is an extract of the financial statements. The statements themselves are...

Statement of Financial Position March 31, 2003.(The Arctic Institute of North America Annual Report 2003)
December 1, 2003... Statement of Financial Position March 31, 2003 2003 2002 unaudited restated ASSETS Current assets Due from...

Financial support.(The Arctic Institute of North America Annual Report 2003)
December 1, 2003... Financial support for the programs of the Arctic Institute, Canadian Corporation, during 2003 was provided by the Government of Canada, the Government of Alberta, the University of Calgary, over 1500 members and subscribers, and the following...