Arctic articles from December 2006

Arctic archives from December 2006

Painted wooden plaques from the MacFarlane collection: the earliest Inuvialuit graphic art.(Roderick MacFarlane )
December 1, 2006... ABSTRACT. In the 1860s, fur trader Roderick MacFarlane amassed a large ethnographic and zoological collection from the western Canadian Arctic, mainly on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution. Among the many items collected are eight hand-sized...

Interspecific killing of an arctic fox by a red fox at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
December 1, 2006... ABSTRACT. We report on the interspecific killing of an arctic fox (Alopex lagopus) by a red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in the Prudhoe Bay Oilfield, Alaska, an event that was captured on video in November 2004. Both the video and evidence from...

An early collection of the red alga Mikamiella ruprechtiana made by Carl Merck on the Billings Expedition to Alaska (1785-94).
December 1, 2006... ABSTRACT. A number of original watercolored illustrations of North Pacific marine algae accompanied by the original algal specimens are deposited in the State Botanical Collection, National Herbarium of Victoria, Australia. These illustrations...

Making sense of contaminants: a case study of Arviat, Nunavut.
December 1, 2006... ABSTRACT. Inuit and scientists are increasingly aware of the presence of contaminants in the Arctic food web and of the threat these contaminants pose to human and environmental health and well-being. The varied ways that Inuit think about and...

An incidence of multi-year sediment storage on channel snowpack in the Canadian High Arctic.
December 1, 2006... ABSTRACT. During June 2005, we identified the presence of sediment buried within multi-year channel snowpack of a small river located near Cape Bounty, Melville Island, Nunavut (74[degrees]55' N, 109[degrees]35' W). Photographic evidence...

New spruce (Picea spp.) macrofossils from Yukon Territory: implications for late Pleistocene refugia in Eastern Beringia.
December 1, 2006... ABSTRACT. New radiocarbon-dated plant macrofossils provide evidence for black spruce (Picea mariana) and white spruce (Picea glauca) within the unglaciated Yukon Territory at the onset of glacial conditions during the Marine Isotope Stage 3/2...

Cultures in collision: traditional knowledge and Euro-Canadian governance processes in northern land-claim boards.
December 1, 2006... ABSTRACT. This paper analyzes how traditional knowledge (TK) is used by two of the co-management and regulatory boards established under the comprehensive land-claim agreements in Canada's territorial North: the Nunavut Wildlife Management...

Exploration history and mineral potential of the central Arctic Zn-Pb District, Nunavut.
December 1, 2006... ABSTRACT. Exploration in the central Arctic Zn-Pb District took place in five phases: 1) an initial exploration period (1960-70), during which most surface showings on Cornwallis and Little Cornwallis islands were found; 2) a discovery period...

The gender gap in higher education in Alaska.
December 1, 2006... ABSTRACT. A gender gap strongly favoring women is occurring in higher education throughout the Arctic and is especially severe among indigenous groups. This study documents the size, nature, and recent increase in the gender gap at the...

Geology of Southeast Alaska: Rock and Ice in Motion.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... GEOLOGY OF SOUTHEAST ALASKA: ROCK AND ICE IN MOTION. By HAROLD H. STOWELL. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-1-889963-81-5. xii + 140 p., maps, colour illus., notes, glossary, selected bib., index. Softbound. US$19.95....

Alliance and Conflict: The World System of the Inupiaq Eskimos.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... ALLIANCE AND CONFLICT: THE WORLD SYSTEM OF THE INUPIAQ ESKIMOS. By ERNEST S. BURCH, Jr. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, the Arctic Institute of North America, and University of Nebraska Press, 2005. ISBN 1-55238-142-0. Northern Lights...

Arctic Animals and Their Adaptations to Life on the Edge.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... ARCTIC ANIMALS AND THEIR ADAPTATIONS TO LIFE ON THE EDGE. By ARNOLDUS SCHYTTE BLIX. Trondheim, Norway: Tapir Academic Press, 2005. ISBN 82-519-2050-7. 296 p., maps, b & w and colour illus., bib., appendices, index. Hardbound. NOK 395. The...

Circumpolar Lives and Livelihood: A Comparative Ethnoarchaeology of Gender and Subsistence.
December 1, 2006... CIRCUMPOLAR LIVES AND LIVELIHOOD: A COMPARATIVE ETHNOARCHAEOLOGY OF GENDER AND SUBSISTENCE. Edited by ROBERT JARVENPA and HETTY JO BRUMBACH. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8032-2606-7. xii + 330 p., maps, b & w illus.,...

A Land Gone Lonesome.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... A LAND GONE LONESOME. By DAN O'NEILL. New York: Counterpoint Press, 2006. ISBN 1-5823-344-5. 245 p., maps, afterword, index. Hardbound. US$24.95; Cdn$32.95. Superficially, this is a composite of several canoe trips the author made in...

North to the Yukon Territory Via the Alcan Highway in 1948: Field Notes of the Andover-Harvard Expedition.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... NORTH TO THE YUKON TERRITORY VIA THE ALCAN HIGHWAY IN 1948: FIELD NOTES OF THE ANDOVER-HARVARD EXPEDITION. By ELMER HARP, Jr. Whitehorse: Archaeology Programme, Tourism and Culture, Government of Yukon, 2005. ISBN 1-55362-226-X. 118 p., maps, b...

Taymyr: The Archaeology of Northernmost Eurasia.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... TAYMYR: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF NORTHERNMOST EURASIA. By LEONID P. KHLOBYSTIN. Translated by LEONID VISHNIATSKI and BORIS GRUDINKO; edited by W.W. FITZHUGH and V.V. PITULKO. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural...

Last Great Wilderness: The Campaign to Establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... LAST GREAT WILDERNESS: THE CAMPAIGN TO ESTABLISH THE ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. By ROGER KAYE. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2006. ISBN 1-889963-83-6. xx + 283 p., maps, b & w illus., colour plates, notes, bib., index. Hardbound....

Books received.
December 1, 2006... ALASKA NATIVE ART: TRADITION, INNOVATION, CONTINUITY. By SUSAN W. FAIR. Edited by JEAN BLODGETT. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2006. ISBN 13: 978-1-889963-79-2. xxxi + 280 p., maps, b & w and colour illus., notes, bib., index....

Papers to appear in Arctic.
December 1, 2006... DYCK, M.G. Community Monitoring of Environmental Change: College-Based Limnological Studies at Crazy Lake (Tasirluk), Nunavut. PARK, R.W., and STENTON, D.R. A Hans Kruger Arctic Expedition Cache on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut. LORING,...

Joan Ryan (1932-2005).(In memoriam)
December 1, 2006... On October 29, 2005, Joan Ryan died at the Agape Hospice in Calgary, Alberta. Her death due to major organ shutdown, occasioned by her own decision to withdraw from the dialysis treatments she had been receiving three times per week, involved a...

Effects of plant functional groups on vegetation dynamics and ecosystem properties.(InfoNorth)
December 1, 2006... LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY has likely been the most dramatic change humans have imposed on ecosystems in the past century (Chapin et al., 2000): the global extinction rate is currently between 100 and 1000 times faster than pre-human extinction...

Habitat and movement ecology of grizzly bears in the Mackenzie Delta, NWT.(InfoNorth)
December 1, 2006... IN THE 1960s AND 1970s, the Mackenzie Delta region of the Northwest Territories in Canada's Western Arctic was on the brink of an oil and gas "boom"; however, pipeline construction was delayed following Thomas Berger's recommendation for a...

Nunavik Bibliography doubles in size.(NORTHERN NEWS)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... The Nunavik Bibliography has doubled in size in the three years since it was made public. The bibliography now contains more than 4300 records and is available for free from a bilingual website at www.aina.ucalgary.ca/nunavik. The Nunavik...

Annie Pootoogook wins Sobey award.(NORTHERN NEWS)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... At a ceremony held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in early November, Cape Dorset artist Annie Pootoogook received the 2006 Sobey Art Award, presented by ScotiaBank. The $50 000 award, established by the Sobey Art Foundation in 2002, has...

Head of British Antarctic Survey visits AINA.(AINA NEWS)(Arctic Institute of North America )(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... The Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) was graced by the presence of Dr. Chris Rapley, Director of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), on 18 October 2006. His visit to the University of Calgary was part of a Canada-wide tour organized by...

ASTIS reaches 60 000 records.(Arctic Institute of North America)(Arctic Science and Technology Information System)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... AINA's Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS) database now contains more than 60 000 records describing publications and research projects about northern Canada. ASTIS is available from a free bilingual website at...

AINA crew cleans up Canadian shorelines.(Arctic Institute of North America, Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... In September, staff, research associates, and friends of the Arctic Institute joined with over 40000 other Canadian volunteers across the country to participate in the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, helping to collect litter and clear debris...

IWAP III.(AINA NEWS)(Third International Workshop on Arctic Parasitology)(Arctic Institute of North America)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... The Third International Workshop on Arctic Parasitology (IWAP III), held in Calgary from 6 to 10 November 2006, was well attended by 68 registered participants from eight northern countries. Co-hosted by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at...

AINA sponsors Banff talk.(Arctic Institute of North America)(Banff Mountain Film Festival)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... In early November, the Arctic Institute was pleased to sponsor polar explorer Borge Ousland's presentation on the main stage at the Banff Mountain Film Festival. Ousland, well known to many Arctic and Antarctic enthusiasts, was in Banff to...

Conferences.(InfoNorth)(geographical associations)(Calendar)
December 1, 2006... Arctic Frontiers: Balancing Human Use and Ecosystem Protection Arctic Marine Ecosystem Research Network (ARCTOS) 21-26 January 2007, Tromso, Norway Website: http://www.arctic-frontiers.com 7th International Conference on Global...