Arctic articles from December 2005

Arctic archives from December 2005

AINA at 60: leaping towards a bright future hand in hand with a new generation.(Arctic Institute of North America)
December 1, 2005... The Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) officially saw the light 60 years ago, when it was chartered by an Act of Parliament in December 1945. With World War II in their rear-view mirrors and the Cold War a yet poorly defined haze in their...

Movements and area use of belugas, Delphinapterus leucas, in a Subarctic Alaskan estuary.
December 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. Seasonal movements of 14 belugas in Cook Inlet, Alaska, were monitored by satellite telemetry between July and March in 2000-03. Whales used waters in the upper Cook Inlet intensively between summer and late autumn and dispersed to...

Re-evaluating the relevance of vegetation trimlines in the Canadian Arctic as an indicator of Little Ice Age paleoenvironments.
December 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. The origin of trimlines associated with the so-called "lichen-free" areas in the Canadian Arctic has been attributed both to perennial snowfield expansion during the Little Ice Age (LIA) and to seasonally persistent snow cover in more...

Evidence for selective caching by arctic ground squirrels living in alpine meadows in the Yukon.
December 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. Male arctic ground squirrels (Spermophilus parryii) rely on food they cached the previous year for the energy they need to compete for mates each spring. We collected cheek-pouch contents of arctic ground squirrels trapped during...

The eastern limit of Beringia: mammoth remains from Banks and Melville Islands, Northwest Territories.
December 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. Two mammoth fossils (presumably woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius) from northwestern Banks and southwestern Melville Islands, Northwest Territories, Canada, have been radiocarbon-dated to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), at 21 000...

Trends in the dates of ice freeze-up and breakup over Hudson Bay, Canada.
December 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. Hudson Bay experiences a complete cryogenic cycle each year. Sea ice begins to form in late October, and the Bay is usually ice-free in early August. This seasonally varying ice cover plays an important role in the regional climate....

A review of tourism research in the polar regions.
December 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. Polar travel has grown dramatically in the last two decades and in recent years has become the focus of academic inquiry. Using a model initially developed for understanding the nature of culture, action, and knowledge in the...

Integrating human health into environmental impact assessment: case studies of Canada's northern mining resource sector.
December 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. This paper examines the integration of human health considerations into environmental impact assessment (EIA) in the Canadian North. Emphasis is placed on the northern mining sector, where more land has been staked in the past decade...

Characteristics and significance of the transition zone in drained thaw-lake basins of the Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska.
December 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. In the three-component conceptual model of arctic soils, the transition zone is recognized as a layer intermediate between the seasonally thawed active layer above and the stable permafrost below. Although typically frozen and...

Simultaneous den use by arctic foxes and wolves at a den site in Nunavut, Canada.
December 1, 2005... ABSTRACT. Arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus) and wolves (Canis lupus) often use similar den sites. Interspecific interactions and competition for den sites are therefore possible among these species. At the Kangowan River in Nunavut. Canada, we...

The Keys Project in northern Alaska, 1951-53.
December 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION In the years following World War II, the U.S. Government was concerned with the paucity of information available about terrain features surrounding the Arctic Basin. To provide a better understanding of polar conditions, the...

Innocents in the Arctic: The 1951 Spitsbergen Expedition.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... INNOCENTS IN THE ARCTIC: THE 1951 SPITSBERGEN EXPEDITION. By COLIN BULL. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2005. ISBN 1-889963-73-9. xviii + 254 p., maps, b & w and colour illus. (1 foldout), publication list, index. Hardbound, US$34.95....

Encyclopedia of the Arctic.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE ARCTIC. Edited by MARK NUTTALL. New York and London: Routledge, 2005. ISBN 1-57958-436-5, 3 vols., xlix + 2278 p., maps, b & w illus., list of contributors, index. Hardbound, US$525.00. This encyclopedia, comprising...

A Prehistory of the North: Human Settlement of the Higher Latitudes.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... A PREHISTORY OF THE NORTH: HUMAN SETTLEMENT OF THE HIGHER LATITUDES. By JOHN F. HOFFECKER. Piscataway, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8135-3469-0. xv + 227 p., maps, b & w illus., notes, bib., index. Softbound. US$29.95. ...

Uqalurait: An Oral History of Nunavut.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... UQALURAIT: AN ORAL HISTORY OF NUNAVUT. Compiled and edited by JOHN BENNETT and SUSAN ROWLEY. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2004. ISBN 0-7735-2340-5, xxxii + 473 p., maps, colour plates and b & w illus., glossary, bib., index....

Eastern Arctic Kayaks: History, Design, Technique.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... EASTERN ARCTIC KAYAKS: HISTORY, DESIGN, TECHNIQUE. By JOHN D. HEATH and E. ARIMA, with contributions by JOHN BRAND, HUGH COLLINGS, HARVEY GOLDEN, H.C. PETERSEN, JOHANNES ROSING, and GREG STAMER. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. 2004. ISBN...

Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... RED SERGE AND POLAR BEAR PANTS. By WILLIAM BARR. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2004. 385 p., b & w illus., maps, index, bib. Softbound. Cdn and US$34.95. In this book, William Barr details the life and career of Harry Stallworthy,...

Watching Ice and Weather Our Way: Sikumengllu Eslamengllu Esghapalle-Ghput.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... WATCHING ICE AND WEATHER OUR WAY: SIKUMENGLLU ESLAMENGLLU ESGHAPALLE-GHPUT By CONRAD OOZEVA, CHESTER NOONGWOOK, GEORGE NOONGWOOK, CHRISTINA ALOWA, and IGOR KRUPNIK, Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution, and Savoonga,...

Mountie in Mukluks: The Arctic Adventures of Bill White.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... MOUNTIE IN MUKLUKS: THE ARCTIC ADVENTURES OF BILL WHITE. By PATRICK WHITE. Foreword by EDITH IGLAUER. Madeira Park, British Columbia: Harbour Publishing, 2004. ISBN 1-55017-352-9. 248 p., maps, b & w illus., bib., index. Hardbound, Cdn$34.95....

Books received.
December 1, 2005... THE DALL SHEEP DINNER GUEST: INUPIAQ NARRATIVES OF NORTHWEST ALASKA. By WANNI W. ANDERSON. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2005. ISBN 1-889963-74-7. x + 293 p., maps, b & w illus., index. Hardbound. US$39.95. INDIGENOUS USE AND...

Papers to appear in Arctic.
December 1, 2005... GUNN, A., MILLER, F.L., BARRY, S.J., and BUCHAN, A. A Near-Total Decline in Caribou on Prince of Wales, Somerset and Russell Islands, Canadian Arctic. REYES, A.V., LUCKMAN, B.H., SMITH, D.J., CLAGUE, J.J., and VAN DORP, R.D. Tree-Ring...

New prey species documented for northern pike (Esox lucius): bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus).
December 1, 2005... Dear Editor: We examined stomach contents of northern pike (Esox lucius) to document their prey species during a fish sampling study in the eastern interior of Alaska in summer 2000. Sampling occurred in the Black River drainage near...

Richard Slobodin (1915-2005).(Obituary)(Biography)
December 1, 2005... Richard Slobodin, premier ethnologist of the Dene and cosmopolitan scholar, died on January 22, 2005, six weeks before his 90th birthday. Born and educated in New York City, he earned BA and MS degrees from the City College of New York. While...

Challenges and accomplishments: a celebration of the Arctic Institute of North America.(InfoNorth)
December 1, 2005... BACKGROUND IN THE 1930S, EXPLORER VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON, northern scientists (particularly geologists), and developers such as Gilbert LaBine recognized the strategic nature and economic potential of the Arctic regions. The Second World...

Nunavut Environmental Database.(NORTHERN NEWS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... The Nunavut Environmental Database (NED) at ned.nunavut.ca now contains descriptions of more than 18 800 publications and research projects about the Canadian territory of Nunavut and adjacent marine areas. NED covers all subjects, not just the...

King's Medal to AINA Fellow.(Arctic Institute of North America)(Jan Erling Haugland)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... In September, Norwegian explorer and AINA Fellow Jan Erling Haugland was awarded the King's Medal of Merit in Gold in honour of his lifetime work in polar science and his humanitarian efforts. The King's Medal was instituted by King Haakon VII...

Northern Contaminants Program Publications Database.(Arctic Institute of North America)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... The Northern Contaminants Program (NCP), managed by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, was established in 1991 in response to research demonstrating that Arctic ecosystems contain many contaminants originating primarily outside the North....

New AINA Director of Communication and Education.(Arctic Institute of North America)(Dr. Dawn Johnston)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... It's been a big season of change at AINA. In addition to moving to our new quarters on the 8th floor of the MacKimmie Library Tower, the AINA team has acquired a new member. In September, Dr. Dawn Johnston joined AINA as the new Director of...

More Arctic PDF files available online.(portable document format)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... We are pleased to announce that all 386 papers, notes, commentaries, editorials, profiles, obituaries and InfoNorth essays published in Arctic from September 1994 through December 2002 are now available as PDF files from the Arctic Contents...

In memoriam: Joan Ryan (1932-2005).(AINA NEWS)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
December 1, 2005... At the end of October, the Arctic Institute lost a longtime friend and supporter with the death of Joan Ryan, professor emerita in the Department of Anthropology, University of Calgary. After her retirement from academia, Dr. Ryan became AINA's...

Conferences.(InfoNorth)(Calendar)
December 1, 2005... Images of the North 17-19 February 2006, Reykjavik, Iceland Website: www.akademia.is/imagesofthenorth/NORTHWORKSHOP/INDEX.htm 36th Annual International Arctic Workshop 16-18 March 2006, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research,...