Arctic articles from March 1996

Arctic archives from March 1996

Blood protein residues on lithic artifacts from two archaeological sites in the De_Long Mountains, northwestern Alaska.
March 1, 1996... ABSTRACT. Immunological analysis of blood residues was performed on 25 lithic artifacts from two archaeological sites (DEL-166 and DEL-168) in the De Long Mountains of northwestern Alaska. Blood residues occur on five artifact types: retouched...

Staging and wintering areas of snow goose nesting in Howe Island, Alaska.
March 1, 1996... ABSTRACT. From July 1980 to July 1990, leg bands were put on 4556 adults, subadults, and goslings from the lesser snow goose (Chen caerulescens caerulescens) colony (1000 nesting birds) on Howe Island, near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. In addition,...

Case of offspring adoption in free-ranging polar bears (Ursus maritimus).
March 1, 1996... ABSTRACT. During a study of the reproductive ecology of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in western Hudson Bay (Canada), we documented a case of litter adoption. In an eight-month period, a ten-year-old adult female lost a litter of two...

John P. Kensall (1924-1995).
March 1, 1996... A long-time Fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America, John Kelsall, died in Vancouver, British Columbia on 24 July 1995. John was born in Nova Scotia and obtained a B.A. at Acadia University, an M.A. at the University of Toronto, and a...

Discovery of strangers.
March 1, 1996... At the end of the poem "Can. Lit.," Canadian poet Earle Birney observes that "it's only by our lack of ghosts/we're haunted." In spite of the ironic inversion of that final line, Birney's lament seems sincere. He laments the absence of a...

Fort Reliance, Yukon: an archaeological assessment.
March 1, 1996... Following the American purchase of Alaska in 1867, non-Natives with objectives other than fur trading began making their way into the interior of the state as well as into the adjacent British Territory to the east. Traders affiliated with the...

From the great river to the ends of the earth: Oblate missions to the Dene, 1847-1921.
March 1, 1996... In this significant update, which attempts to bring crosscultural symmetry to her original doctoral dissertation (1981), Martha McCarthy ventures "to provide a history of the establishment, expansion and consolidation of the Oblate missionary...

Marine mammals and the Exxon Valdez.
March 1, 1996... Since March 1989, I have encountered a new query when traveling outside Alaska: "How badly were marine mammals hurt by the Exxon Valdez oil spill?" That question is now put to me as frequently as "How cold does it get up there?" Thus, I was...

Physics of glaciers.
March 1, 1996... The third edition of The Physics of Glaciers is a justifiable update of the second edition published 13 years ago. This is largely because the glacier research field is continually expanding as a result of the computer and technological...