Arctic articles from June 2001

Arctic archives from June 2001

Factors Influencing Nest Attendance and Time-Activity Budgets of Peregrine Falcons in Interior Alaska.
June 1, 2001... ANGELA G. PALMER [1,2] DANA L. NORDMEYER [1,3] DANIEL D. ROBY [1] (Received 7 December 1999; accepted in revised form 30 August 2000) ABSTRACT. An essential prerequisite to examining the impacts of anthropogenic disturbance on...

Remote Identification of Polar Bear Maternal Den Habitat in Northern Alaska.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... GEORGE M. DURNER [1] STEVEN C. AMSTRUP [1] KEN J. AMBROSIUS [2] (Received 1 February 2000; accepted in revised form 30 August 2000) ABSTRACT. Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) give birth in dens of ice and snow to protect their...

Spring Migration and Subsistence Hunting of King and Common Eiders at Holman, Northwest Territories, 1996-98.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... TIM BYERS [1] and D. LYNNE DICKSON [2] (Received 30 March 2000; accepted in revised form 1 September 2000) ABSTRACT. A subsistence hunt for eiders by Inuvialuit of Holman, Northwest Territories, was observed over three spring harvest...

Faunal and Archaeological Remains as Evidence of Climate Change in Freezing Caverns, Yukon Territory, Canada.
June 1, 2001... BERNARD LAURIOL [1,2] CLEMENT PREVOST [3] ERIC DESCHAMPS [1] JACQUES CINQ-MARS [4] SYLVAIN LABRECQUE [5] (Received 7 June 2000; accepted in revised form 11 September 2000) ABSTRACT. Animal and plant remains, some...

Climate Change Scenarios for Hudson Bay, Canada, from General Circulation Models.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... WILLIAM A. GOUGH [1,2] EDMUND WOLFE [1] (Received 16 May 2000; accepted in revised form 19 September 2000) ABSTRACT. Two generations of a climate model are compared using the impact of a [CO.sub.2] doubling on the Hudson Bay region...

Development of Vegetation Communities in a Retrogressive Thaw Slump near Mayo, Yukon Territory: A 10-Year Assessment.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... A-P. BARTLEMAN [1] K. MIYANISHI [2] C.R. BURN [3,4] M.M. COTE [3] (Received 14 December 1998; accepted in revised form 19 September 2000) ABSTRACT. The vegetation in a retrogressive thaw slump, first surveyed and...

Extending the Late Holocene White River Ash Distribution, Northwestern Canada.
June 1, 2001... STEPHEN D. ROBINSON 1 (Received 30 May 2000; accepted in revised form 25 September 2000) ABSTRACT. Peatlands are a particularly good medium for trapping and preserving tephra, as their surfaces are Wet and well vegetated. The extent of...

Estimating the Hydrographic Effects of Prudhoe Bay Causeway Breaches Using the Before-After Control-Impact (BACI) Analysis.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... ROBERT G. FECHHELM [1] LARRY R. MARTIN [1] BENNY J. GALLAWAY [1] WILLIAM J. WILSON [2] WILLIAM B. GRIFFITHS [3] (Received 28 February 2000; accepted in revised form 27 September 2000) ABSTRACT. A Before-After...

Prospects for the Northwestern Russian Forest Raw Material Harvesting during the Transition to a Market Economy.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... MATS NILSSON [1] ANDRIS KLEINHOF [2] (Received 23 August 1999; accepted in revised form 29 November 2000) ABSTRACT. This paper analyzes the long-term prospects of profitably harvesting the forests in northwestern Russia in a...

Cougars (Puma concolor) in the Northwest Territories and Wood Buffalo National Park.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... ROBERT J. GAU, [1,2] ROBERT MULDERS, [1] TAMARA LAMB [3] LIBBY CUNN [3] (Received 26 April 2000; accepted in revised form 5 September 2000) ABSTRACT. Extralimital reports of cougars (Puma concolor) at the northern limits...

NUNAVUT: INUIT REGAIN CONTROL OF THEIR LANDS AND THEIR LIVES.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by JENS DAHL, JACK HICKS and PETER JULL. Copenhagen: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, 2000. IWGIA Document No. 102. ISBN 87-90730-34-8. 223 p., map, bib. Softbound. US$16.00. The first didactic and enthusiastic wave...

JOURNAL OF OCCURRENCES AT THE FORKS OF THE LEWES AND PELLY RIVERS MAY 1848 TO SEPTEMBER 1852.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by LLEWELLYN R. JOHNSON and DOMINIQUE LEGROS. Whitehorse: Heritage Branch, Government of the Yukon, 2000. Occasional Papers in Yukon History, No. 2. ISBN 1-55018-976-X. xiv + 153 p., maps, b&w illus., notes, index. Softbound. No charge....

ICE IN THE OCEAN.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By PETER WADHAMS. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 2000. 351 p., maps, colour and b&w illus., bib., index. Hardbound. US$67.00, 10% discount when ordered at www.gbhap.com. Peter Wadhams has produced a well-written, concise...

THE PALEO-ESKIMO CULTURES OF GREENLAND: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN GREENLANDIC ARCHAEOLOGY.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Edited by BJARNE GRONNOW and JOHN PIND. Copenhagen: Danish Polar Center, 1996. Publication No. 1. x + 334 p., maps, b&w illus., bib. Softbound. DKK190 + p&h. Cdn$35.00. This collection of papers from a symposium held on 21-24 May 1992 at...

INUKSUIT: SILENT MESSENGERS OF THE ARCTIC.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By NORMAN HALLENDY. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., and Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000. ISBN 0-295-97983-6. 128 p., 2 maps, 52 colour photographs, b&w illus., bib., index. Hardbound. Cdn$45.00. US$35.00. From where I...

DISTANT SHORES: THE ODYSSEY OF ROCKWELL KENT.(Review)
June 1, 2001... By CONSTANCE MARTIN, with essays by RICHARD V. WEST. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2000. Exhibition catalogue. ISBN 0-520-22711-5. 128 P., 60 color illus., 20 b&w illus., exhibition list, index, chronology, bib. Hardbound,...

JAMES W. VANSTONE 1925-2001.
June 1, 2001... James W. VanStone died suddenly of heart failure on February 28, 2001 at the age of 75. Known to his friends as Jim, VanStone was one of anthropology's foremost and most prolific northern scholars. He leaves behind many friends, colleagues, and...

The Barrow Symposium on Sea Ice, 2000: Evaluation of One Means of Exchanging Information between Subsistence Whalers and Scientists.
June 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION A Barrow Symposium on Sea Ice (BSSI) was held in early winter 2000. The National Science Foundation (U.S.) funded this symposium as the keystone event in a project designed to ally traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) with...

Encyclopedia of the Arctic.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Several AINA research associates are contributing entries for the Encyclopedia of the Arctic, to be published by Fitzroy Dearborn in the spring of 2003. Its two large-format volumes, edited by Mark Nuttall of the University of Aberdeen, will...

ASTIS News.(Arctic Science and Technology Information System)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... With financial support from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, the Hydrocarbon Impacts (HI) database, a subset of AINA's Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS), has recently been made available on the Web at...

Kent Exhibition in Alaska.(Rockwell Kent)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... AINA Research Associate Constance Martin, curator for a retrospective exhibition entitled Distant Shores: The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent and author of the accompanying book of the same title, will travel to Alaska to participate in the opening at...

Mummy Studies Congress.
June 1, 2001... The Greenland National Museum and Archives will host the 4th World Congress on Mummy Studies in Nuuk on 4-10 September 2001. Conference speakers and participants represent a broad spectrum of interests in palaeopathology, mummification, applied...

ARCTIC 50 YEARS AGO.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... * In July 1951, the Canadian Defence Research Board's vessel C.G.M.V. Cancolim II left Vancouver to carry out hydrographic and oceanographic work in the Beaufort Sea. Thomas Manning (then AINA Vice Chairman) led the expedition, which also...

IN THE LAND OF WHITE DEATH. By VALERIAN ALBANOV.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Translated by ALISON ANDERSON and WILLIAM BARR, introduction by DAVID ROBERTS. New York: Random House Modern Library, 2000. 205 p., 3 maps, 2 illus., index. Hardbound. US$21.95, Cdn$32.95. Early in his ordeal on the ice of the Arctic Ocean...