Arctic articles from September 2008

Arctic archives from September 2008

Pedagogy of the front float: dialogue and aquatics programming in Taloyoak, Nunavut.(Report)
September 1, 2008... ABSTRACT. We examine the first author's experiences with aquatics programming in Nunavut through a Freirian lens, arguing that one can use Paulo Freire's ideals of dialogue and collaboration to recognize recreation as a mode of social...

Extending the late Holocene Tephrochronology of the central Kenai Peninsula, Alaska.(Report)
September 1, 2008... ABSTRACT. Tephrochronology, the reconstruction of past volcanic ash deposition, provides a valuable method for dating sediments and determining long-term volcanic history. Tephra layers are highly numerous in Alaska, but knowledge of their...

Downstream migrations of juvenile salmon and other fishes in the upper Yukon River.(Report)
September 1, 2008... ABSTRACT. The Yukon River is the fourth largest river in North America, yet the ecology of its fishes has not been well described. During the spring and summer of 2002-04, we sampled the downstream migrations of fishes in the Yukon River...

Water and ice-related phenomena in the coastal region of the Beaufort Sea: some parallels between Native experience and Western science.
September 1, 2008... ABSTRACT. Information gained through Native experience is combined here with scientific measurements to describe aspects of the wintertime oceanography of the Eskimo Lakes and Mackenzie River delta regions of the Canadian Beaufort Sea. The...

Carbon uptake rates of sea ice algae and phytoplankton under different light intensities in a landfast sea ice zone, Barrow, Alaska.(Report)
September 1, 2008... ABSTRACT. To determine whether nitrogen or light exerts the most control for the rates of carbon production of ice algae and phytoplankton under the ice, nitrogen addition ([NO.sub.3] or [NH.sub.4]) and light increment experiments were executed...

Redefining walrus stocks in Canada.(Report)
September 1, 2008... ABSTRACT. Defining management units is basic to the sound management of resources. Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) are hunted throughout their range in Canada and are subject to other human activities requiring management decisions. Current...

On the storms passing over southern Baffin Island during autumn 2005.(Report)
September 1, 2008... ABSTRACT. Although strong storms affect all regions of the Arctic, little research has focused on the details of their structure and evolution--particularly of the storms passing over southern Baffin Island. Such storms form in a variety of...

Ross's gulls (Rhodostethia rosea) breeding in Greenland: a review, with special emphasis on records from 1979 to 2007.(Report)
September 1, 2008... ABSTRACT. This review summarizes breeding records of Ross's gull in Greenland with special emphasis on the period between 1979 and 2007. The review comprises both previously published records (including some published only in Danish) and...

Monozygotic twin wolves with divergent life histories.(Report)
September 1, 2008... ABSTRACT. Genetic evidence for monozygotic (identical) twinning in mammalian species is rare in the literature, Here we report what may be the first pair of monozygotic twins identified in a wild caniform carnivore, the grey wolf (Cams lupus)....

Trent, McGill, and the North: A Story of Canada's Growth as a Sovereign Polar Nation.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... TRENT, McGILL, AND THE NORTH: A STORY OF CANADA'S GROWTH AS A SOVEREIGN POLAR NATION. By PETER ADAMS. Peterborough, Ontario: Cover to Cover Publication Services, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-9784368-0-3. 221 p., maps, b&w illus., 24 colour plates,...

Zackenberg--an Arctic Pearl in the North East Greenland National Park.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... ZACKENBERG--AN ARCTIC PEARL IN THE NORTH EAST GREENLAND NATIONAL PARK. By THOMAS BJORNEBOE BERG. Humlebaek, Denmark: Rhodos Science and Art Publishers, 2008. ISBN 87-7245-967-0. 232 p., 3 maps, 128 colour and 31 b&w illus. Hardbound. ~US$60.00...

The White Bears of Greenland.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... THE WHITE BEARS OF GREENLAND. By E.W. BORN. Nuuk, Greenland: Ilinniusiorfik Education, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. 2008. ISBN 978-87-7975-405-8. 128 p., maps, colour illus., further reading, index. Softbound. DKK 186...

Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... HUNTERS AT THE MARGIN: NATIVE PEOPLE AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES. By JOHN SANDLOS. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7748-1363-1 (paper). xxiii + 333 p., maps, b&w illus., appendix, notes, bib., index. Hardbound,...

Penguins of the World.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... PENGUINS OF THE WORLD. By WAYNE LYNCH. Richmond Hill, Ontario: Firefly Books. ISBN: 978-1-55407-274-3. 175 p., maps, colour illus., further reading, index. Softbound. Cdn$24.95. Very nicely illustrated with numerous photos by the author,...

Eight Men in a Crate: the Ordeal of the Advance Party of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1957.(Book review)
September 1, 2008... EIGHT MEN IN A CRATE: THE ORDEAL OF THE ADVANCE PARTY OF THE TRANS-ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1955-1957. By ANTHEA ARNOLD. Based on the diary of RAINER GOLDSMITH. Norwich and Huntingdon, United Kingdom: The Erskine Press and Bluntisham Books, 2007....

Unknown Waters: A First-HAND Account of the Historic Under-ICE Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by Uss Queenfish (SSN651).(Book review)
September 1, 2008... UNKNOWN WATERS: A FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORIC UNDER-ICE SURVEY OF THE SIBERIAN CONTINENTAL SHELF BY USS QUEENFISH (SSN651). By ALFRED S. McLAREN, Captain U.S. Navy (Retired). Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2008. ISBN...

Books received.
September 1, 2008... ARCTIC FOX: LIFE AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD. By GARRY HAMILTON; Photographs by NORBERT ROSING. Richmond Hill, Ontario: Firefly Books, 2008. ISBN1-55407-341-3. 231 p., map, 80 colour photographs, bib., index. Hardbound. Cdn$39.95. CLIMATE...

Papers to appear in Arctic.
September 1, 2008... CLARK, D.A., LEE, D.S., FREEMAN, M.M.R., and CLARK, S.G. Polar Bear Conservation in Canada: Defining the Policy Problems. JONES. B.M., HINKEL, K.M., ARP, C.D., and EISNER, W.R. Modern Erosion Rates and Loss of Coastal Features and Sites,...

InfoNorth: Canadian sovereignty linked to energy development in the Arctic.
September 1, 2008... INDUSTRY IS ABOUT TO EMBARK SERIOUSLY on exploration and probable development of Canada's Arctic energy resources. The price of natural gas has recovered from its recent lows and is now on the upswing, with no end in sight. With conventional...

The 2008 William Mills Prize.(NORTHERN NEWS)
September 1, 2008... The winners of the 2008 William Mills Prize for Non-Fiction Polar Books were announced at the 22nd Polar Libraries Colloquy held in Edmonton, Alberta, in June 2008. Top prize went to Encyclopedia of the Antarctic, edited by Beau Riffenburgh and...

Circumpolar health supplement (CHS) publication series.(NORTHERN NEWS)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... CHS is a new independent publication series featuring a wide variety of material in the field of circumpolar health and wellbeing, including reports, monographs, PhD theses, abstracts, conference publications, and books. The series is designed...

Grant-in-Aid program recipients for 2008.(AINA NEWS)
September 1, 2008... The Grant-in-Aid committee received 19 applications in 2008 and awarded grants of $1000 to ten students. The committee congratulates the successful applicants, whose names and research topics are as follows: * Beatrix Arendt, University of...

MGM joins Shell in supporting the ISR Database.(AINA NEWS)(MGM Energy Corporation, Inuvialuit Settlement Region)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... MGM Energy Corporation has joined Shell Canada Limited in supporting the Inuvialuit Settlement Region Database, which is produced by the Joint Secretariat-Inuvialuit Renewable Resource Committees and AINA's Arctic Science and Technology...

Federal officials visit KLRS.(AINA NEWS)(Kluane Lake Research Station )(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Patrick Borbey, a member of AINA's Board of Directors and Assistant Deputy Minister of the Northern Affairs program of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), visited the Kluane Lake Research Station (KLRS) at the end of May. He was...

Arctic Institute wins award to promote northern science.(AINA NEWS)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Northern residents will learn more about research being carried out in their communities thanks to a project being implemented by the Arctic Institute of North America. The Institute won a $180000 federal International Polar Year (IPY) grant to...

Sovereignty, Defence and Discovery website.(AINA NEWS)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... A website that organizes hundreds of Arctic photos into manageable chunks based on seven different expeditions has been developed by Adam Lajeunesse, a doctoral student in history at the University of Calgary. Lajeunesse also designed an...

Arctic Institute publishes prospectus.(AINA NEWS)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... The Arctic Institute has published a business plan that outlines its major objectives for future development. The document, titled Past-Present-Future, speaks about AINA's past achievements but focuses primarily on current business goals. ...

Conferences.(Calendar)
September 1, 2008... First International Symposium on Arctic Research: Drastic Change Under Global Warming 4 - 6 November 2008, Tokyo, Japan Website: http://www.jamstec.go.jp/iorgc/sympo/isar1/index.html Approaching Arctic Frontier Areas for Petroleum...