Arctic articles from June 2002

Arctic archives from June 2002

Accumulation in East Greenland fjords and on the continental shelves adjacent to the Denmark strait over the last century based on [Pb.sup.210] geochronology.
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. Sediment (SAR) and mass (MAR) accumulation rates for the last 100 years are derived from [Pb.sub.210] profiles of box cores collected in three fjords and on the continental shelf in the Kangerlussuaq region, East Greenland, and on the...

A comparison of modern and preindustrial levels of mercury in the teeth of beluga in the Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories, and walrus at Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada.
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT Mercury (Hg) concentrations were compared in modern and preindustrial teeth of belugas (Deiphinapterus leucas) and walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) at sites in the Canadian Arctic so that the relative amounts of natural and...

Multi-Island seasonal home range use by two Peary caribou, Canadian High Arctic Islands, Nunavut, 1993--94.
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT A female and a male Peary caribou (Rangifer tarandus pearyi) were captured on 29 July 1993 on Massey Island, south-central Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut, Canada. Each was fitted with a satellite telemetry neck-collar, released,...

Evidence for human modification of a Late Pleistocene bison (bison sp.) bone from the Klondike District, Yukon Territory, Canada.
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. A 31 000 BP bison limb bone from Nugget Gulch near Dawson City, Yukon, shows a "ring crack" considered to be a human-made impact mark resulting in exposure of marrow. This bone is approximately contemporaneous with wolf, horse, and...

Foraging behaviours of wolverines at a large arctic goose colony.
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. At the large Ross's goose and lesser snow goose colony at Karrak Lake, Nunavut, Canada, we saw wolverines kill two geese, take 13 eggs from 12 goose nests, and take three goose carcasses from two fox dens. Wolverines also made...

Chronology of terrestrial den use by polar bears in Western Hudson Bay as indicated by tree growth anomalies.
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. In a large polar bear denning area inland from the coast of western Hudson Bay south of Churchill, Manitoba, previous denning activity was determined by examining tree growth anomalies in the black spruce (Picea mariana) around and...

Aspects of early Thule culture as seen in the architecture of a site on Victoria Island, Amundsen Gulf area.
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. The early Thule culture site Co-op, situated at the east end of Amundsen Gulf, along the route to the eastern Arctic, offers excellent conditions for documenting the Thule expansion from Alaska, across the area of western Canadian...

Cannibalism of a yearling polar bear (Ursus maritimus) at Churchill, Canada.
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. An adult male polar bear (Ursus maritimus) was observed on 17 October 2000 consuming a yearling polar bear at Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. On 21 October 2000, a subadult male fed on the remains of the same bear carcass. Circumstantial...

Observations of polar bear predatory behaviour toward caribou.
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. A polar bear (Ursus maritimus) was observed unsuccessfully stalking and chasing caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in western Hudson Bay. Before chasing the caribou, the polar bear appeared to make use of wind direction and vegetation cover...

The Arctic: Environment, People, Policy. (Reviews).
June 1, 2002... THE ARCTIC: ENVIRONMENT, PEOPLE, POLICY. Edited by MARK NUTTALL and TERRY V. CALLAGHAN. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000. 647 p., maps, b&w and colour illus., bib., index. Hardbound. US$118.00; [pounds sterling]78.00. The...

The People of Denendeh: Ethnohistory of the Indians of Canada's Northwest Territories. (Reviews).
June 1, 2002... THE PEOPLE OF DENENDEH: ETHNOHISTORY OF THE INDIANS OF CANADA'S NORTHWEST TERRITORIES. By JUNE HELM. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000. xx + 389 p., maps, b&w illus., bib., index. Hardbound. US$39.95. The People of Denendeh must be...

Lichens of Antarctica and South Georgia: A Guide to their Identification and Ecology. (Reviews).
June 1, 2002... LICHENS OF ANTARCTICA AND SOUTH GEORGIA: A GUIDE TO THEIR IDENTIFICATION AND ECOLOGY. By D.O. OVSTEDAL and R.I. LEWIS SMITH. [Studies in Polar Research]. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001, xii + 411 p. ISBN 0521 66241 9....

Out Voices: Native Stories of Alaska and the Yukon. (Reviews).
June 1, 2002... OUR VOICES: NATIVE STORIES OF ALASKA AND THE YUKON. Edited by JAMES K. RUPPERT and JOHN W. BERNET. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8020-8467-2. 394 p., maps, b&w illus., notes, bib., index. Softbound. Cdn$29.95. The...

Snow Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Snow-Covered Ecosystems. (Reviews).
June 1, 2002... SNOW ECOLOGY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY EXAMINATION OF SNOW-COVERED ECOSYSTEMS. Edited by H.G. JONES, J.W. POMEROY, D.A. WALKER, and R.W. HOHAM. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 398 p., b&w and colour illus., index, bib., glossary....

Books received.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS. By WALDEMAR JOCHELSON. Foreword by HERBERT D.G. MASCHNER and KATHERINE L. REEDY-MASCHNER. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2002. ISBN 0-87480-720-4. Reprint of 1925 edition. xx...

The Gwich'in traditional Caribou Skin Clothing Project: repatriating traditional knowledge and skills. (InfoNorth).
June 1, 2002... I believe it is very important that the Gwich' in people, especially the younger children, see how the Gwich 'in used to wear clothes a long time ago and also realize all the work involved in completing an outfit. Hopefull this would make them...

New CPC Board of Directors. (Northern News).(Canadian Polar Commission)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... This spring, AINA Fellow Peter Johnson succeeded former AINA Executive Director Michael Robinson as Chair of the Canadian Polar Commission (CPC). Dr. Johnson, a geography professor at the University of Ottawa, is the former vice-chair of the...

Scholarship winners. (AINA News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Elizabeth A. Gillis, a doctoral student in the Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, was selected as the 2002 winner of the Jennifer Robinson Memorial Scholarship, administered by the Arctic Institute of North America. Since...

Hydrocarbon impacts database and Web site. (AINA News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... During the past year, AINA's Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS) has significantly expanded the Hydrocarbon Impacts (HI) database and Web site that it maintains for Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. The HI database now...

The DEW line sea lane project. (AINA News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... A major multidisciplinary study of the impact of military and transport activities on the circumpolar world is being launched by the Arctic Institute of North America in collaboration with the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies (CMSS),...

InfoSouth. (AINA News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Between 28 December 2001 and 9 March 2002, AINA Research Associate Bill Barr participated as historical lecturer in three Antarctic cruises organized by Quark Expeditions on board the Russian icebreaker Kapitan Dranitsyn, chartered from the...

NSERC Northern Research Chairs. (Awards).(Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Congratulations to AINA Fellows Christopher Burn (Carleton University) and John England (University of Alberta), who were named, along with four other northern researchers, as recipients under the new Northern Research Chair program sponsored...

AAA Career Achievement Award. (Awards).(Alaska Anthropological Association)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... At the 29th Annual Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association held in Anchorage on 4-6 April 2002, AINA Fellow Douglas D. Anderson received the Career Achievement Award for 2001. Former recipients of this award from the Alaska...

William E. Taylor Research Award. (Awards).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... In March, the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Hull, Quebec, granted the fourth annual William E. Taylor Research Award to Julie M. Ross, a doctoral student in Anthropology at the University of Toronto, to support her research into the...

The Beaufort Sea Conference 2000 on the renewable marine resources of the Canadian Beaufort Sea.
June 1, 2002... The Beaufort Sea Conference 2000, held in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, in September 1999, had three objectives: to review our current understanding of the renewable aquatic resources of the Beaufort Sea; to review the factors that affect...

Renewable resources of the Beaufort Sea for our children: perspectives from an Inuvialuit elder.
June 1, 2002... My name is Billy Day. I was born at Tom Cod Bay, along the Arctic Coast, a few years ago. I was born in a schooner called the Moose River, which was owned by my dad and Taylor Pokiak. My mom was born and raised at Kittigazuit, the largest...

Canadian Beaufort Sea 2000: the environmental and social setting.
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. The Beaufort Sea Conference 2000 brought together a diverse group of scientists and residents of the Canadian Beaufort Sea region to review the current state of the region's renewable resources and to discuss the future management of...

Inuvialuit Use of the Beaufort Sea and its resources, 1960-2000.
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. Comprehensive, census-type surveys of Inuvialuit harvesters were conducted in the Inuvialuit Settlement Keglon (ISR) in the 1960s (Area Economic Surveys) and 1970s (Inuit Land Use and Occupancy Project) and in the 1990s (Inuvialuit...

Oceanography of the Canadian Shelf of the Beaufort Sea: a setting for marine life.
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. Conservation of marine biodiversity in the Beaufort Sea demands that we understand what individual organisms require of their physical and geochemical environments in order to survive. Specifically, how do the extraordinary spatial...

Status of marine birds of the Southeastern Beaufort Sea.
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. This summary and update of information on the marine birds of the southeastern Beaufort Sea is intended to support discussions on how to improve management of marine resources in the Canadian Beaufort Sea region. Perhaps the most...

Polar bears and seals in the Eastern Beaufort Sea and Amundsen Gulf: a synthesis of population trends and ecological relationships over three decades.
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. In the eastern Beaufort Sea and Amundsen Gulf, research on polar bear populations and their ecological interrelationships with seals and sea ice conditions began in the fall of 1970. Analysis of movement data from mark-recapture...

Whales of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in Canada's Western Arctic: an overview and outlook.
June 1, 2002... ABSTRACT. The beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) and the bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) are seasonal migrants to Canada's Western Arctic, occupying summer range in the southeastern Beaufort Sea and Amundsen Gulf within the Inuvialuit...