Arctic articles from September 2003

Arctic archives from September 2003

Climatic impact on small grain production in the Subarctic region of the United States.
September 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. The Subarctic comprises the higher mid-latitudinal regions with short, cool, moist summers and long, cold, dry winters. Indeed, the short, cool growing season is often thought of as a barrier to crop growth and diversity in these...

Trends in forage fish populations in Northern Hudson Bay since 1981, as determined from the diet of nestling thick-billed murres Uria lomvia.
September 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. Trends in the composition of nestling thick-billed murre diets were analyzed for the period 1980-2002 on the basis of observations of food delivered to nestlings at two breeding colonies in northern Hudson Bay. The incidence of arctic...

Evaluation of percent cover requirements for revegetation of disturbed sites on Alaska's North Slope.
September 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. On the North Slope of Alaska, attempts have been made to revegetate areas damaged by development. Some revegetation projects strive to achieve specific performance standards based on percent vegetation cover. This study uses data...

Ecological characteristics of streams in the Barrenlands near Lac de Gras, N.W.T., Canada.(Northwest Territories)
September 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. We examined spatiotemporal variation in the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of pristine streams that represent a range of conditions near Lac de Gras in the Barrenlands region of the Northwest Territories, Canada....

Radiocarbon dating caribou antler and bone: are they different?
September 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. Old archaeological radiocarbon dating lore has it that caribou antler and bone give different dating results, and that for some fundamental reason antler is unreliable as a dating material. We tested this idea by measuring radiocarbon...

Endoparasites of northern sharp-tailed grouse, Tympanuchus phasianellus phasianellus, as related to age and position on the lek.
September 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. The only indication of endoparasites found in male sharp-tailed grouse collected during the breeding season from the western James Bay region of northern Ontario, Canada, were nematode eggs of an unknown species. Nematode egg loads of...

West Greenland's cod-to-shrimp transition: local dimensions of climatic change.
September 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. West Greenland's transition from a cod-fishing to a shrimp-fishing economy, ca. 1960-90, provides a case study in the human dimensions of climatic change. Physical, biological, and social systems interacted in complex ways to affect...

Historical population characteristics of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) in Hudson Bay.
September 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. Historical records of commercial whalers operating in northwestern Hudson Bay during the 19th century were examined for information on size, age, sex, and location of bowhead whales that were either sighted or killed. Correlations...

Local ecological knowledge of ivory gull declines in Arctic Canada.
September 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. We gathered local ecological knowledge (LEK) on the ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea) from residents of three High Arctic communities in eastern Canada. This gull has always been uncommon, but Inuit had suggested that numbers of gulls...

Nuvisavik: the Place Where We Weave.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Edited and with a preface by MARIA VON FINCKENSTEIN. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-7735-2335-9. 202 p., including black-and-white photos of 19 tapestry artists and 49 colour...

Canada and the Idea of North.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By SHERRILL E. GRACE. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. 368 p., 44 illus., bib., index. Hardbound. Cdn$49.95. In Canada and the Idea of North, an investigation that crosses academic disciplines and so is...

Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By SHELAGH D. GRANT. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-7735-2337-5. xx + 342 p., maps, duotone illus., appendices, notes, bib., index. Hardbound. Cdn$39.95. During the first decade following the turn of the twentieth...

Rogue Diamonds: the Rush for Northern Riches on Dene Land.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By ELLEN BIELAWSKI. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2003. 256 p., 2 maps, bib., index. Hardbound. US$24.95; Cdn$35.00. When miners started digging billions of dollars in diamonds from the tundra of the Northwest Territories in 1998, there...

Narrating the Arctic: a Cultural History of Nordic Scientific Practices.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Edited by MICHAEL BRAVO and SVERKER SORLIN. Canton, Massachusetts: Scieuce History Publications/USA, 2002. ix + 373 p., 38 b&w illus., 11 maps, endnotes, index, no separate bibliography. Hardbound. US$39.95. A better title for this...

Polar Extremes: the World of Lincoln Ellsworth.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... By BEEKMAN H. POOL. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2002. ISBN 1-889963-44-5 (Softbound). 312 p., maps, b&w illus., index, bib. Hardbound, US$45.00; Softbound, US$24.95. Scholarly authors and their readers--guilds that mutually...

Books received.(Bibliography)
September 1, 2003... BELUGAS IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC AND THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC. Edited by MADS PETER HEIDE-JORGENSEN and OYSTEIN WIIG. Tromso, Norway: North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission, 2002. ISBN 82-91578-11-7. 270 p., maps, b&w and colour illus. Hardbound....

Papers to appear in Arctic.(Bibliography)
September 1, 2003... APORTA, C. New Ways of Mapping: Using GPS Mapping Software to Plot Place Names and Trails in Igloolik, Nunavut. BOOMS, T.L., and FULLER, M.R. Gyrfalcon Feeding Behavior during the Nestling Period in Central West Greenland. WOO, M.K.,...

Letter to the editor: farthest north polar bear: (Ursus maritimus).(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2003... Dear Editor: On 5 August 2001, while on a cruise with tourists from Longyearbyen, Svalbard, to the Geographic North Pole, we sighted a lone polar bear (Ursus maritimus) from the Russian icebreaker Yamal at a site we believe to be the...

Woven, not carved: the Pangnirtung tapestries are northern art with global appeal.(InfoNorth)
September 1, 2003... SAY THE WORDS "INUIT ART" and people immediately think "sculpture." But there is much more to art by Inuit. Consider tapestries, a vital art form with a short 30-year history. For centuries, Inuit in the Canadian Arctic lived a seminomadic,...

Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923.(Northern News)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... The 2003 Clio Award for Northern History has been granted to Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923, by AINA member and Arctic editorial advisor Shelagh D. Grant. The Regional History Committee of the Canadian Historical...

New AINA research associates.(AINA News)(Arctic Institute of North America )(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... At the May 2003 meeting of the AINA Board, two new research associates joined the AINA roster. Dr. Virginia McGowan Js an associate professor in the Addictions Counselling Program of the School of Health Sciences, University of Lethbridge. Dr....

ASTIS news.(AINA News)(Arctic Institute of North America, Arctic Science and Technology Information System)
September 1, 2003... During the past year, AINA's Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS) has significantly expanded the Hydrocarbon Impacts (HI) database and website that it maintains for Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. The HI database now...

Walter O. Kupsch (1919-2003).(AINA News)(Arctic Institute of North America)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
September 1, 2003... Longtime AINA Fellow and former Member of the AINA Board of Governors (1969-74) Walter O. Kupsch died this past July in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Dr. Kupsch was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of...

Conferences.(InfoNorth)(Calendar)
September 1, 2003... Arctic Margins: Coastal and Marine Environmental Geoseience in a Changing Climate: Implications for Development at the International Conferences on Arctic Margins (ICAM IV) 30 September-3 October 2003, Dartmouth, Nova Seotia, Canada ...