Arctic articles from March 2001

Arctic archives from March 2001

Life-History Traits of Charr, Salvelinus alpinus, from a High Arctic Watercourse on Svalbard.
March 1, 2001... ODD A. GULSETH [1,2,3] KJELL J. NILSSEN [1] (Received 11 May 1999; accepted in revised form 25 April 2000) ABSTRACT. Three arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) morphs coexist within the Dieset watercourse (79[degrees] 10'N,...

The Age and Origin of the Little Diomede Island Upland Surface.
March 1, 2001... LYN GUALTIERI [1] JULIE BRIGHAM-GRETTE [2] (Received 2 July 1999; accepted in revised form 25 May 2000) ABSTRACT. Geomorphology and projected uplift rates indicate that the upland surface of Little Diomede Island may represent a...

Contemporary Use of Traditional and Imported Food among Greenlandic Inuit.
March 1, 2001... TINE PARS [1] MERETE OSLER [2] PETER BJERREGAARD [3] ABSTRACT. A health interview survey was carried out in Greenland in 1993-94 among randomly selected adult Inuit (N = 1580) to gather information about people's perceptions of...

An Overview of Early Anthrax Outbreaks in Northern Canada: Field Reports of the Health of Animals Branch, Agriculture Canada, 1962-71.
March 1, 2001... D.C. DRAGON [1] B.T. ELKIN [2] (Received 9 May 2000; accepted in revised form 26 July 2000) ABSTRACT. Between 1962 and 1971, six outbreaks of anthrax occurred in the bison herds of the Northwest Territories and northern Alberta. In...

Moose, Caribou, and Grizzly Bear Distribution in Relation to Road Traffic in Denali National Park, Alaska.
March 1, 2001... A.C. YOST [1] R.G. WRIGHT [2] ABSTRACT. Park managers are concerned that moose (Alces alces), caribou (Rangifer tarandus), and grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) may be avoiding areas along the 130 km road through Denali National Park as a...

Activity and Movement Patterns of Polar Bears Inhabiting Consolidated versus Active Pack Ice.
March 1, 2001... STEVEN H. FERGUSON [1] MITCHELL K. TAYLOR [2] ERIK W. BORN [3] AQQALU ROSING-ASVID [3] FRANCOIS MESSIER [4] (Received 7 March 2000; accepted in revised form 2 August 2000) ABSTRACT. We investigated the influence of...

Natural History and Conservation of the Greenland Whale, or Bowhead, in the Northwest Atlantic.
March 1, 2001... K.J. FINLEY [1] (Received 25 May 1999; accepted in revised form 4 August 2000) ABSTRACT. One of the longest-living mammals, the Greenland whale or bowhead (Balaena mysticetus) is specialized to filter small crustaceans, especially...

Alcohol Control by Referendum in Northern Native Communities: The Alaska Local Option Law.
March 1, 2001... MATTHEW BERMAN [1] TERESA HULL [1] (Received 20 July 1999; accepted in revised form 11 August 2000) ABSTRACT. When Alaska became a state in 1959, state laws took control of alcohol regulation from the federal government and Native...

ANCIENT CULTURES, BOUNTIFUL SEAS: THE STORY OF PORT AU CHOIX.(Review)
March 1, 2001... ANCIENT CULTURES, BOUNTIFUL SEAS: THE STORY OF PORT AU CHOIX. By M.A.P. RENOUF. St. John's: Historic Sites Association of Newfoundland and Labrador, 1999. ISBN 0-919735-05-3. 64 p., illus., maps, bib., glossary. Softbound. Cdn$19.95. ...

REMEMBERING THE YEARS OF MY LIFE: JOURNEYS OF A LABRADOR INUIT HUNTER.(Review)
March 1, 2001... REMEMBERING THE YEARS OF MY LIFE: JOURNEYS OF A LABRADOR INUIT HUNTER. Recounted by PAULUS MAGGO. Edited, with an Introduction, by CAROL BRICE-BENNETT. St. John's: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland,...

ROALD AMUNDSEN'S BELGICA DIARY: THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO THE ANTARCTIC.(Review)
March 1, 2001... ROALD AMUNDSEN'S BELGICA DIARY: THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO THE ANTARCTIC. Edited by HUGO DECLEIR. Bluntisham, Huntingdon: Bluntisham Books, 1999. ISBN 1 85297 058 8. 208 p., 8 maps, 8 b&w photographs, 25 line drawings, 5 sketches....

HUNTING TRADITION IN A CHANGING WORLD: YUP'IK LIVES IN ALASKA TODAY.(Review)
March 1, 2001... HUNTING TRADITION IN A CHANGING WORLD: YUP'IK LIVES IN ALASKA TODAY. By ANN FIENUP-RIORDAN, with WILLIAM TYSON, PAUL JOHN, MARIE MEADE, and JOHN ACTIVE. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2000. xx + 310 p., photographs, index,...

MUSKOXEN AND THEIR HUNTERS: A HISTORY.(Review)
March 1, 2001... MUSKOXEN AND THEIR HUNTERS: A HISTORY. By PETER C. LENT. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. xi + 324 p., b&w illus., appendix, notes, bib., index. Hardbound. US$57.50. If we test the popularity of the muskox by that...

CLIVE HOLLAND: 1946-2000.
March 1, 2001... Clive Holland, archivist, polar historian, and polar encyclopedist, died in Cambridge on 15 September 2000 after a lengthy illness. The following incident indicates the high esteem in which he was held by someone well qualified to evaluate his...

Bioavailable Mercury in Arctic Snow Determined by a Light-Emitting mer-lux Bioreporter.
March 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION MERCURY (Hg) is a heavy metal with unique chemical properties that make it an attractive resource in many industries. Hg is also a byproduct of fossil fuel combustion and other industrial processes. It exists in the...

Responding to Climate Change in Northern Communities: Impacts and Adaptations.
March 1, 2001... SUBSTANTIAL efforts are being directed at predicting the impacts of climate change on Arctic resources. However, less research has extended the discussion of impact assessment to address the sensitivities of the communities that rely on these...

Fisheries Award.
March 1, 2001... AINA member Lois Harwood was awarded the 2000 Inuvialuit/Canada Fisheries Joint Management Committee (FJMC) Co-operative Management Award at a special public meeting of the Inuvik Hunters and Trappers Committee held in Inuvik on 21 November...

Hudson Bay Integrated Management Project.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The Hudson Bay Integrated Management Project is beginning to unfold for the coastal lands and adjacent marine waters of western Hudson Bay, a region extending from the Manitoba/Ontario border, along the Manitoba coast, to the northern limits of...

ASTIS News.(Arctic Science and Technology Information System)
March 1, 2001... AINA's Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS) is working on a contract from the Canadian Polar Commission to select, index, and gather statistics on papers about northern Canada and papers about the Antarctic with at least one...

Arctic Circumpolar Studies Major.
March 1, 2001... In the first quarter of 2001, Theme School director Prof. Karim-Aly Kassam, with the support of colleagues, established a new Major concentration in Arctic Circumpolar Studies at the University of Calgary. This concentration, part of the...

Rockwell Kent Exhibition.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Constance Martin, Research Associate at AINA, is the curator for a retrospective exhibition entitled Distant Shores: The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent and the author of the accompanying book of the same title, published by the University of...

American Polar Society Symposium 2000 in Boulder, Colorado.
March 1, 2001... AINA Research Associate Cindy Allen attended the American Polar Society (APS) Symposium 2000, held at the University of Colorado in Boulder on October 5-6, 2000. Presentations at the symposium were organized under three themes: From Sled Dog to...

Ford Foundation Fellowship.
March 1, 2001... AINA research associate Helen Corbett is one of five activist/scholars chosen to spend four months on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, as a fellow in the Ford Foundation Environment and Culture Residential Fellowship...

Publications.
March 1, 2001... AINA Senior Research Associate Peter Schledermann's historical novel, Raven's Saga: An Arctic Odyssey, is being translated into Danish. The translation will be published by Atuagkat Press in Nuuk, Greenland. Research Associate Norman...

ARCTIC 50 YEARS AGO.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... * During the summer of 1950, the Cryolite Company engaged a Swedish drilling company to investigate a magnetic iron ore deposit at Gronnedal, southwestern Greenland. Six cores drilled into the deposit revealed that it was smaller and of lower...