A search of the ASTIS database for "SISN 76493/76525" has found the following 33 records, which are sorted in descending order of year.

Responding to Arctic environmental change : translating our growing understanding into a research agenda for action. An International Study of Arctic Change (ISAC) workshop, 30 January - 1 February 2012, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Fairbanks, Alaska ; Stockholm : International Study of Arctic Change, 2012.
iii, 33 p. : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Indexed a PDF file from the Web.
References.
Cover title.
ASTIS record 76525.
Languages: English
Web: http://arcticchange.org/isac2009/images/stories/RtoC_Workshop_Report_20April2011.pdf

INTRODUCTION: The International Study of Arctic Change (ISAC) is an ongoing, international, interdisciplinary arctic environmental change research program. ISAC encompasses pan-Arctic, system-level, cross-disciplinary observations, synthesis and modeling to provide an integrated understanding of arctic change and projections of future change. The ISAC Science Plan (Murray et al. 2010) provides a vision for integrating research among diverse fields and varied users and stakeholders while outlining a framework for collaborative, international, and interdisciplinary research about the arctic system. This program of research is framed within a context of observing, understanding and responding to environmental change in the Arctic. Working with scientists and stakeholders to scope and design effective responses to arctic environmental change is key to ISAC, with one goal to drive forward observational and understanding activities and research objectives that are significant for science and meaningful to society. This workshop report details the first phase of implementation of the Responding to Change (RtoC) component of the ISAC program and provides the necessary background on workshop development including planning meetings, topical considerations, and broader needs of the research community. The report further outlines a common reference framework for RtoC and identifies fundamental research activities necessary to implement RtoC while simultaneously providing a pathway for RtoC to inform ongoing arctic system observing initiatives. (Au)

J, S, N, T, E, R, I, K, G
Adaptability (Psychology); Animal ecology; Climate change; Culture (Anthropology); Effects monitoring; Environmental impacts; Forecasting; Health; Native peoples; Natural area preservation; Natural resource management; Numeric databases; Outdoor recreation; Parks; Public participation; Research; Risk assessment; Safety; Science; Sea ice; Social surveys; Socio-economic effects; Subsistence; Taiga ecology; Temporal variations; Tourist trade; Tundra ecology; Wildlife habitat

G02
Arctic regions

Frozen pasts : 3rd International Glacial Archaeology Symposium, June 3rd - 8th, 2012, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada : programme and abstracts
[Whitehorse, Yukon : Yukon, Tourism and Culture], 2012.
38 p. : maps ; 20 cm.
Cover title: Frozen pasts : 3rd International Glacial Archaeology Symposium, Whitehorse, Yukon, June 3-8, 2012, : programme and abstracts.
Also available on the Web.
ASTIS record 76522.
Languages: English
Web: http://www.kwanlindunculturalcentre.com/wp-content/uploads/Frozen-Pasts-Program-Abstracts-Web-Ver2.pdf
Libraries: ACU

The Whitehorse Frozen Pasts Symposium continues a tradition begun in Bern, Switzerland and Trondheim, Norway, bringing together researchers and students in archaeology and related disciplines in a forum for discussion of results, observations, problems and solutions in the field of glacial archaeology from around the world. The Conference Programme provides information on the schedule of papers and presenters, events, and exhibits, and provides additional information on the two field excursions which will conclude the meetings. (Au)

U, F, B, I, E, N, T, H, C
Antlers; Archaeology; Artifacts; Bogs; Bones; Climate change; Extirpation; Geographic information systems; Glaciers; Hunting; Ice patches; Land use; Mammals; Melting; Mosses; Permafrost; Prehistoric man; Radiocarbon dating; Recent epoch; Sleds; Tahltan Indians; Traditional clothing

G02, G0811, G0812, G06, G13
Alaska; Alps, Europe; Arctic regions; Austria; Granger, Mount, Yukon; Mexico; N.W.T.; Norway; Yukon

Adapting to climate change in Hopedale, Nunatsiavut   /   Fleming, L.   DeSantis, R.   Smit, B.   Andrachuk, M.
(Settlement, subsistence, and change among the Labrador Inuit / Edited by D.C. Natcher, L. Felt, and A. Procter. Contemporary studies on the North, 2, 2012, ch. 9, p. 209-229)
References.
ASTIS record 76521.
Languages: English
Libraries: ACU

The Arctic is experiencing a period of substantial change (ACIA 2004). Biophysical changes include annual temperature increases, rapid sea ice melt, later winter ice freeze-up, earlier spring sea ice thawing, and earlier and faster snow melt (Stroeve et al. 2007; Rosenzweig et al. 2007). These subtle yet significant changes are affecting communities in the Arctic and subarctic that rely on the natural environment for subsistence needs and well-being. The experiences and observations of Inuit in the Arctic over the past two decades are of particular concern (Nickels et al. 2006; Ford et al. 2006; ACIA 2004). In addition to environmental change, Inuit communities in the Arctic are experiencing socio-economic, political, and cultural change. Wage-based economy, settled communities, and decreased participation in traditional activities on the land and sea, coupled with new forms of government via the settlement of land claims agreements and new Inuit self-governing institutions, have contributed to the transformation that Inuit people in the Canadian Arctic are experiencing. These changes are affecting the ability of Inuit to effectively manage the stresses associated with a changing biophysical environment. In Hopedale, Nunatsiavut, residents have identified changes that are affecting the livelihoods and well-being of the community. Hopedale residents continue to maintain a traditional connection with the natural environment that extends from leisurely travel to livelihood dependence. This community relies heavily on the freezing and thawing of sea ice, which determines when, where, and what natural resources are accessible and available. The effects of climate change on local transportation networks and access to important hunting areas are of concern to Hopedale residents, yet residents are adapting to these changing circumstances. Survival in the Arctic is dependent on the ability to adapt. Past conditions and the historic nomadic nature of Inuit in Labrador enabled survival based on an extensive knowledge of the natural environment (Cruikshank 2001). Survival skills were acquired through experience with the natural environment and from peers in the community. Specialized skills and knowledge about the environment continue to be strong in the community today. They serve as a set of resources for Labrador Inuit to draw on in times of change and challenge. Many livelihoods in the community depend on a combined economy of wage-labour and subsistence activities, commonly referred to as a mixed economic system (AHDR 2004; Berman et at. 2004). In addition to providing food and related resources, harvesting is important for the connections it provides between residents and their culture and traditions. Household participation in harvesting activities depends on the availability of financial resources. In Hopedale, most households rely on input from the wage economy for the financial resources necessary to pursue subsistence activities such as hunting and fishing. However, stresses associated with climate change constrain the ability of community members to pursue subsistence resource gathering and threaten the viability of the subsistence economy. Although Hopedale is experiencing changes within social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental systems, it is a community that is also equipped with the capacity to manage such changes. Through the necessary adjustments and interventions by the community and appropriate levels of governance, the capacity to manage these and anticipated changes can be enhanced within the community of Hopedale and elsewhere in the Nunatsiavut settlement region. (Au)

R, T, E, N, G, L, J
Aboriginal rights; Adaptability (Psychology); Capacity building; Climate change; Co-management; Costs; Creation of Nunatsiavut; Culture (Anthropology); Cumulative effects; Economic conditions; Employment; Fishing; Formation; Human ecology; Hunting; Inuit; Mental health and well-being; Mining; Natural resource management; Risk assessment; Sea ice; Self-determination; Snow; Snowmobiles; Social change; Social conditions; Social surveys; Subsistence; Traditional knowledge; Traditional land use and occupancy; Trafficability; Trails; Transportation; Weather forecasting; Wood fuel

G0827
Hopedale region, Labrador; Hopedale, Labrador

Human security in the Arctic : the foundation of regional cooperation   /   Exner-Pirot, H.
Toronto : Munk-Gordon Arctic Security Program, 2012.
12 p. ; 28 cm.
(Working papers on Arctic security, no. 1)
Indexed a PDF file from the Web.
Cover title.
References.
ASTIS record 76520.
Languages: English
Web: http://gordonfoundation.ca/publication/537

Human security is a concept that encourages policymakers and academics to see security as more than just the military defense of a state and its territory. It challenges us to identify individuals and communities, and threats to their security and well-being, as equally worthy of attention and protection as the state. It is also a concept that has seen an inordinate amount of debate regarding its usefulness and scope. Many sources, including important foundational documents such as the 1994 UNDP Human Development Report on New Dimensions on Human Security, have interpreted human security very broadly, from food to health to community security. Others have asked whether identifying such a laundry list of “bad things that can happen” under the rubric of human security issues have diluted the concept to the point that it means nothing. Within the context of the Arctic, discussions have centred on whether the concept of human security is applicable or relevant, in part because it is so qualitatively different from the physical violence and conflict associated with human security issues in the developing world. The discussion of whether human security is useful, applicable, or valid as a conceptual framework or policy tool in the Arctic may be missing the bigger point. The importance of human security in the Arctic is not theoretical. It is the bedrock upon which regional cooperation has been built. Unique among the world's regional organizations, which includes the EU, ASEAN, the African Union, and the Arab League among others, regionalization of the Arctic, and its foremost political forum, the Arctic Council, has been forged not around defense or trade, but around the protection of human security: environmental and cultural threats to the survival of societies, groups and individuals. This paper examines the evolution and significance of this development. (Au)

E, J, R, T, K
Adaptability (Psychology); Air quality; Climate change; Culture (Anthropology); Effects monitoring; Environmental impacts; Environmental policy; Environmental protection; Food; Foreign relations; Government; Health; Military operations; Native organizations; Native peoples; Pollution; Public participation; Quality of life; Research; Risk assessment; Social policy; Socio-economic effects; Sovereignty; Water supply

G081, G02
Arctic regions; Canada; Canadian Arctic

RESEARCH PROJECT
Archaeological survey in northern Yukon including Driftwood River and King Edward Spit areas   /   Le Blanc, R.J. [Investigator]   University of Alberta [Affiliation]
(Yukon Archaeological Sites Regulations Permit, no. 12-13)
This research project description is based on information collected by the Yukon Heritage Resources Unit under the Yukon Archaeological Sites Regulations.
Year: 2012.
ASTIS record 76509.
Languages: English

U
Indian archaeology; Research project descriptions; Yukon Archaeological Sites Regulations Permits

G0811
Driftwood River region, Yukon; Yukon, Northern

RESEARCH PROJECT
Archaeological resource inventory and assessment of Precipitate Gold Corporation's proposed Reef Property mineral exploration activities   /   Heffner, T. [Investigator]   Matrix Research Ltd. [Affiliation]   Precipitate Gold Corp. [Sponsor]
(Yukon Archaeological Sites Regulations Permit, no. 12-12)
This research project description is based on information collected by the Yukon Heritage Resources Unit under the Yukon Archaeological Sites Regulations.
Year: 2012.
Investigator's address: Ty Heffner, Matrix Research Ltd.
ASTIS record 76508.
Languages: English

U, B, P
Geological exploration; Gold; Indian archaeology; Minerals; Mining; Research project descriptions; Yukon Archaeological Sites Regulations Permits

G0811
Eagle Plains, Yukon; Yukon, Northern

RESEARCH PROJECT
Archaeological assessment of the Northern Cross (Yukon) Ltd. proposed drill sites and ancillary developments in the Eagle Plains area, northern Yukon   /   Heffner, T. [Investigator]   Matrix Research Ltd. [Affiliation]   Northern Cross (Yukon) Limited [Sponsor]
(Yukon Archaeological Sites Regulations Permit, no. 12-11)
This research project description is based on information collected by the Yukon Heritage Resources Unit under the Yukon Archaeological Sites Regulations.
Year: 2012.
Investigator's address: Ty Heffner, Matrix Research Ltd.
ASTIS record 76507.
Languages: English

U, Q
Gas fields; Indian archaeology; Oil fields; Oil well drilling; Research project descriptions; Yukon Archaeological Sites Regulations Permits

G0811
Eagle Plains, Yukon; Yukon, Northern

RESEARCH PROJECT
Developing climate change scenarios for cumulative effects assessment : a case study of southwest Yukon   /   Qazi, S. [Investigator]   Wilfrid Laurier University [Affiliation]
(Yukon Scientists and Explorers Licence, no. 12-46)
This research project description is based on information collected by the Yukon Heritage Branch under the Yukon Scientists and Explorers Act.
Year: 2012.
ASTIS record 76506.
Languages: English

E, J, R
Climate change; Cumulative effects; Effects monitoring; Environmental impact assessment; Research project descriptions; Yukon Scientists and Explorers Licences

G0811
Kluane Lake region, Yukon; Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon

RESEARCH PROJECT
Beaufort Sea coastal geoscience research   /   Whalen, D. [Investigator]   Canada. Natural Resources Canada [Affiliation]
(Yukon Scientists and Explorers Licence, no. 12-45)
This research project description is based on information collected by the Yukon Heritage Resources Unit under the Yukon Scientists and Explorers Act.
Year: 2012.
ASTIS record 76505.
Languages: English

B, A, D
Coast changes; Geology; Research project descriptions; Sea level; Yukon Scientists and Explorers Licences

G0811
Inuvialuit Settlement Region, N.W.T./Yukon; Yukon, Northern

RESEARCH PROJECT
Dimensional modeling of retrogressive thaw slump erosion rates, Herschel Island, northern Yukon   /   Simpson, J. [Investigator]   McGill University [Affiliation]
(Yukon Scientists and Explorers Licence, no. 12-44)
This research project description is based on information collected by the Yukon Heritage Resources Unit under the Yukon Scientists and Explorers Act.
Year: 2012.
Investigator's address: Jared Simpson, McGill University, Montréal, Québec.
ASTIS record 76504.
Languages: English

C, A
Erosion; Mathematical models; Research project descriptions; Thaw flow slides; Yukon Scientists and Explorers Licences

G0811
Herschel Island, Yukon

RESEARCH PROJECT
Monitoring coastal thermokarst and ground ice dynamics on Herschel Island, northern Yukon   /   Lantuit, H. [Investigator]   Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research [Affiliation]
(Yukon Scientists and Explorers Licence, no. 12-43)
This research project description is based on information collected by the Yukon Heritage Resources Unit under the Yukon Scientists and Explorers Act.
Year: 2012.
Investigator's address: Dr. Hugues Lantuit, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany.
ASTIS record 76503.
Languages: English

C, A, J
Coast changes; Effects monitoring; Ground ice; Research project descriptions; Thermokarst; Yukon Scientists and Explorers Licences

G0811
Herschel Island, Yukon

RESEARCH PROJECT
Geological investigation of the Rapid Creek Formation on the Big Fish River and Rapid Creek occurrences, northern Yukon   /   Nicklin, I. [Investigator]   Royal Ontario Museum [Affiliation]
(Yukon Scientists and Explorers Licence, no. 12-41)
This research project description is based on information collected by the Yukon Heritage Branch under the Yukon Scientists and Explorers Act.
Year: 2012.
Investigator's address: Ian Nicklin, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario.
ASTIS record 76502.
Languages: English

B
Geological exploration; Research project descriptions; Yukon Scientists and Explorers Licences

G0811
Big Fish River region, N.W.T./Yukon; Rapid Creek region, Yukon

RESEARCH PROJECT
Evaluating Yukon's regional land use planning framework as a tool to managing cumulative effects in the Kluane region, southwest Yukon   /   Pike, B. [Investigator]   Wilfrid Laurier University [Affiliation]
(Yukon Scientists and Explorers Licence, no. 12-42)
This research project description is based on information collected by the Yukon Heritage Branch under the Yukon Scientists and Explorers Act.
Year: 2012.
Investigator's address: Brandon Pike, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ont.
ASTIS record 76501.
Languages: English

J, S
Cumulative effects; Effects monitoring; Environmental impacts; Land use; Management; Parks; Planning; Research project descriptions; Yukon Scientists and Explorers Licences

G0811
Kluane Lake region, Yukon; Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon

RESEARCH PROJECT
Geological investigation of the Rapid Creek Formation on the Big Fish River and Rapid Creek occurrences, northern Yukon   /   Tait, K. [Investigator]   University of Toronto [Affiliation]   Royal Ontario Museum [Affiliation]
(Yukon Scientists and Explorers Licence, no. 12-40)
This research project description is based on information collected by the Yukon Heritage Branch under the Yukon Scientists and Explorers Act.
Year: 2012.
Investigator's address: Kim Tait, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
ASTIS record 76500.
Languages: English

B
Geological exploration; Research project descriptions; Yukon Scientists and Explorers Licences

G0811
Big Fish River region, N.W.T./Yukon; Rapid Creek region, Yukon

RESEARCH PROJECT
Yukon's permafrost characteristics and dynamics   /   Lewkowicz, A. [Investigator]   University of Ottawa [Affiliation]
(Yukon Scientists and Explorers Licence, no. 12-39)
This research project description is based on information collected by the Yukon Heritage Resources Unit under the Yukon Scientists and Explorers Act.
Year: 2012.
Investigator's address: Antoni Lewkowicz, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario.
ASTIS record 76499.
Languages: English

C
Permafrost; Permafrost surveys; Research project descriptions; Soil mechanics; Spatial distribution; Yukon Scientists and Explorers Licences

G0811
Yukon

Rethinking the top of the world : the Arctic Council   /   Munk School of Global Affairs. Canada Centre for Global Security Studies   Walter and Duncan Gordon Charitable Foundation
Toronto : Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs ; Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation, 2011.
10 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Indexed a PDF file from the Web.
ASTIS record 76523.
Languages: English
Web: http://www.munkschool.utoronto.ca/assets/files/Rethinking%20the%20Top%20of%20the%20World%20-%20The%20Arctic%20Council.pdf

74% of Canadians think that there are penguins in the Arctic and 69% think that Canadians in the North live in igloos, according to a recent poll conducted by Up Here, a Northern Canadian-based magazine. With this lack of basic knowledge about the Arctic, perhaps it is not surprising that large numbers of Canadians have never heard of an important organization that is meeting in Nuuk, Greenland today (May 12) to discuss Arctic issues - the Arctic Council. Canadians can take comfort in the fact that their Arctic neighbours don't fare much better. This is according to data collected by the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs and the Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation for the study Rethinking the Top of the World: Arctic Security Public Opinion Survey, released in January 2011. [This report on the Arctic Council provides information to answer the following questions: What is the Arctic Council? Why should I care about the Arctic Council? Do you support the idea of the Arctic Council? How was the Arctic Council created? What does the Arctic Council do? How does the Arctic Council make decisions? Who makes up the Arctic Council? Who chairs the Arctic Council? Where does the Arctic Council go from here? Should the Arctic Council expand its mandate? What states and organizations should be admitted as permanent observers? What role is there for the "Arctic 5"? How should the Arctic Council be paid for? Should the Arctic Council have a permanent secretariat? How should the Permanent Participants be supported?] (Au)

R, T, N, J, D, G, E
Arctic Council; Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy; Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme; Boundaries; Capacity building; Caucasians; Climate change; Continental shelves; Effects monitoring; Environmental protection; Foreign relations; Government; Government relations; Inuit; Marine transportation; Military policy; Native peoples; Natural resource management; Nordicity; Pollution control; Program for the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna; Public opinion; Public participation; Research; Science; Sea ice; Search and rescue; Social surveys; Sovereignty; Sustainable economic development; Treaties

G02, G08, G13, G03, G14, G0815
Arctic Ocean; Arctic regions; Canada; Northwest Passage; Russian Federation; Scandinavia; United States

The impact of black carbon on Arctic climate   /   Quinn, P.K.   Stohl, A.   Arneth, A.   Berntsen, T.   Burkhart, J.F.   Christensen, J.   Flanner, M.   Kupiainen, K.   Lihavainen, H.   Shepherd, M.   Shevchenko, V.   Skov, H.   Vestreng, V.
Oslo, Norway : Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, 2011.
ii, 70 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
(AMAP technical report, no. 4)
ISBN 9788279710691
Cover title.
References.
ASTIS record 76519.
Languages: English
Web: http://amap.no/documents/index.cfm?action=getfile&dirsub=&filename=89439%5Fimpact%20of%20black%20carbon%5FLO%5FFINAL.pdf&sort=default
Libraries: ACU

The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) established an Expert Group on Short-Lived Climate Forcers (SLCFs) in 2009 with the goal of reviewing the state of science surrounding SLCFs in the Arctic and recommending the science tasks that AMAP should conduct or promote to improve the state of knowledge and its application to policy-making. In addition, the Expert Group was charged with providing scientific advice regarding the assessment of Arctic climate benefits of the mitigation strategies investigated by the Task Force on SLCFs established by the Arctic Council. This document is a result of the work completed by the AMAP Expert Group on SLCFs. It focuses on black carbon (BC) but also considers the impact of co-emitted organic carbon (OC). The analyses are focused on Arctic impacts with the Arctic defined as all regions north of 60° N. This limited perspective is not meant to downplay the importance of the other SLCFs, including methane (CH4) and ozone (O3), but reflects the limited time line provided by AMAP and the expertise of the membership of the Expert Group. Future efforts that detail impacts of CH4 and O3 on Arctic climate are recommended. Arctic temperatures have increased at almost twice the global average rate over the past 100 years (IPCC, 2007; AMAP, 2011). From 1954 to 2003, annual average surface air temperatures increased from 2 to 3 °C in Alaska and Siberia. The increase during the winter months has been up to 4 °C (ACIA, 2004). In the period since the completion of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment in 2004 (ACIA, 2004), the Arctic has experienced its highest surface air temperatures of the instrumental record (AMAP, 2011). Warming in the Arctic has been accompanied by an earlier onset of spring melt, a lengthening of the melt season, and changes in the mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet (Zwally et al., 2002; Stroeve et al., 2006, AMAP, 2011). In addition, Arctic sea-ice extent decreased in every month between 1979 and 2006 (Serreze et al., 2007a). During the 2007 melt season, Arctic sea-ice extent fell to the lowest levels observed since satellite measurements began in 1979, resulting in the first recorded complete opening of the Northwest Passage (NSIDC, 2007). Arctic sea-ice extent for September 2010 was the third lowest in the satellite record for the month behind 2007 (lowest) and 2008 (second lowest) (NSIDC, 2010) (Figure 1.1). Both the Northwest Passage and the Northern Sea Route were open for a period during September 2010. The Norwegian trimaran Northern Passage and the Russian yacht Peter I each successfully navigated both passages and circumnavigated the Arctic in a single season. Overall, the 2001-2010 average September monthly sea-ice extent is 5.56 million km²; 21.0% below the 1979-2000 average of 7.04 million km². The trend over the ten-year period is -201 000 km² per year (-28.5% per decade relative to the 1979-2000 average) (AMAP, 2011). Impacts of ice loss include reduction in the Earth's albedo; a positive feedback that leads to further warming. ... The remaining parts of this report include a review of the most recent literature as well as results of model calculations undertaken for this assessment. Section 2 reviews the chemical, physical, and optical properties of BC that make it a short-lived climate forcer. The methods used for measuring BC and modeling its transport to the Arctic and radiative forcing are reviewed in Section 3. Emissions of BC as a function of energy sector and geographical region are addressed in Section 4. Transport of BC to the Arctic is reviewed in Section 5 and seasonality and trends of Arctic BC concentrations are reviewed in Section 6. Estimates of the radiative forcing due to specific sources (by energy sector and geographical region) are presented in the latter half of the report (Sections 7 and 8). This analysis takes into account BC and co-emitted OC with the goal of identifying the sources that have the largest potential impact on Arctic climate. The report concludes with two sections addressing knowledge gaps and recommendations for future research. ... (Au)

E, H, J, F, N, L, G
Aerosols; Agronomy; Air pollution; Albedo; Atmospheric chemistry; Atmospheric circulation; Carbon cycling; Climate change; Clouds; Diesel fuels; Effects monitoring; Environmental impacts; Fires; Forest fires; Fuels; Ice cover; Instruments; Land clearing; Marine transportation; Mathematical models; Measurement; Meteorology; Optical properties; Plant cover; Radiation budgets; Remote sensing; Sea ice; Seasonal variations; Snow; Solar radiation; Taiga ecology; Temporal variations; Thermal properties; Trucks

G02, G06, G081, G10, G14, G13
Alert, Nunavut; Arctic regions; Asia; Barrow, Alaska; Europe; Kangerlussuaq Fjord (66 30 N, 52 07 W) region, Greenland; Russian Arctic; Scandinavia; Summit, Greenland; Thule Air Base, Greenland

Snow, water, ice and permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) : climate change and the cryosphere   /   Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
Oslo, Norway : AMAP Secretariat, 2011.
1 v. (various pagings) : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
ISBN 9788279710714
References.
ASTIS record 76517.
Languages: English
Web: http://amap.no/swipa/CombinedReport.pdf
Libraries: ACU

This report presents the findings of the Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA): Climate Change and the Cryosphere assessment performed by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) in close cooperation with the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), the World Climate Research Programme/Climate and Cryosphere (WCRP/CliC) Project and the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA). The SWIPA assessment is the third AMAP assessment addressing Arctic climate issues and is a direct follow-up to the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) published in 2005. The ACIA reviewed the state of knowledge regarding ongoing change in the Arctic climate and documented the role that the Arctic plays in the global climate system; it represents the benchmark against which this updated assessment of change in the Arctic cryosphere has been developed. The SWIPA assessment was conducted between 2008 and 2011 by an international group of over 200 scientists, experts and knowledgeable members of the Arctic indigenous communities. Lead authors were selected by an open nomination process coordinated by AMAP, IASC, WCRP/CliC and several national and international organizations. A similar process was used to select international experts who independently reviewed this report. A SWIPA Integration Team, including the lead authors for the twelve chapters, was responsible for scientific oversight and coordination of all work related to the preparation of the assessment report. Documentation available on the website www.amap.no includes listings of the comments received from the peer reviewers. Information contained in this report is fully referenced and based first and foremost on research and monitoring efforts published since 2003 (i.e., information gathered since the ACIA report was undertaken). It includes peer-reviewed material accepted for publication up until October 2010, and in some cases later. Unpublished monitoring information, including both in situ and satellite observations, with well-established national and international standards and QA/QC (quality assurance/quality control) protocol are also part of the assessment. Acknowledging national differences in scientific quality assurance, the SWIPA assessment therefore draws mainly on peer-reviewed publications and work accepted for publication in respected scientific journals, including works reviewed by Russian scientific committees. Other sources of information, such as government reports, design standards, official records, statistics and other publicly available material, have however also been included in the work in order to provide as complete a picture of the effects of a changing Arctic cryosphere as possible; this is particularly the case for parts of the assessment dealing with the human dimension. All such references have been collected and are available upon request (at cost of reproduction) from the AMAP Secretariat. Care has been taken to ensure that no critical probability statements are based on these materials. Access to reliable and up-to-date information is essential for the development of science-based decision-making regarding ongoing changes in the Arctic and their global implications. SWIPA summary reports and SWIPA films (available with different language subtitles) have therefore been specifically developed for policy-makers, summarizing the main findings of the SWIPA assessment. The SWIPA lead authors have confirmed that both this report and its summary report accurately and fully reflect their scientific assessment. This report constitutes the fully-referenced scientific basis for all statements made in the SWIPA summary report and its executive summary with recommendations for policy makers. The SWIPA reports and films are available from the AMAP Secretariat and on the AMAP website www.amap.no. ... (Au)

E, G, F, C, J, R, T, A, L, N
Adaptability (Psychology); Air pollution; Albedo; Carbon dioxide; Climate change; Coast changes; Detection; Effects monitoring; Effects of climate on ice; Environmental impacts; Erosion; Geomorphology; Glaciers; Government regulations; Hydrology; Ice; Ice cover; Ice sheets; Marine transportation; Mathematical models; Meteorology; Native peoples; Natural resources; Periglacial landforms; Permafrost; Quality assurance; Remote sensing; Research; Sea ice; Sea level; Seasonal variations; Snow; Snow cover; Socio-economic effects; Temporal variations

G02
Arctic regions; Arctic waters; Greenland

Snow, water, ice and permafrost in the Arctic : SWIPA 2011 executive summary   /   Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
Oslo, Norway : AMAP Secretariat, 2011.
15 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Cover title.
See ASTIS record 76517 for the overview report.
ASTIS record 76516.
Languages: English
Web: http://www.seacityresearchnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/SWIPA2011.pdf
Libraries: ACU

AMAP's new assessment of the impacts of climate change on Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) brings together the latest scientific knowledge about the changing state of each component of the Arctic 'cryosphere'. It examines how these changes will impact both the Arctic as a whole and people living within the Arctic and elsewhere in the world. (Au)

E, G, F, C, J, R, T
Adaptability (Psychology); Climate change; Detection; Effects monitoring; Effects of climate on ice; Environmental impacts; Glaciers; Ice; Ice cover; Ice sheets; Mathematical models; Native peoples; Permafrost; Sea ice; Sea level; Seasonal variations; Snow; Snow cover; Socio-economic effects; Temporal variations

G02
Arctic regions; Arctic waters; Greenland

Science Technical Review of the draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Baffinland's Mary River Project   /   Stewart, R.E.A.   Lesage, V.   Lawson, J.W.   Cleator, H.   Martin, K.A.
[Winnipeg, Man.] : Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 2011.
vi, 62 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
(Research document - Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat, 2011/086)
Appendix.
Indexed a PDF file from the Web.
French title provided: Examen scientifique de l'ébauche d'étude d'impact environnemental (EIE) du projet de Mary River soumis par Baffinland.
French abstract provided.
References.
ASTIS record 76515.
Languages: English
Web: http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Csas-sccs/publications/resdocs-docrech/2011/2011_086-eng.pdf

Baffinland's Mary River Project is a proposed iron ore mining operation located in the Canadian Arctic on northern Baffin Island, Nunavut. The Project includes port developments proposed in Steensby and Milne inlets, an all weather road from the Milne Inlet Port to the mine, a year-round railroad line from the Steensby Port to the mine and a year-round shipping route through Foxe Basin and Hudson Strait. Since 2005, Baffinland has conducted baseline studies which form the basis of their draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Mary River Project. These studies cover the terrestrial, freshwater, atmospheric and marine environments, as well as socio-economic conditions and land use. Baffinland submitted the draft EIS for development of the Mary River Project to the Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) for detailed environmental and socio-economic review. Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) is responsible for conducting a technical review of the draft EIS. To that end, Ecosystems Management sector within Central and Arctic Region requested advice from the Science sector to assist them with reviewing the Baffinland draft EIS, especially the potential impacts of ice-breaking/shipping activities on marine mammals. DFO Science staff that reviewed the draft EIS identified a number of unresolved issues in the report. These concerns relate to the alternative assessment of port locations, extent of the local study area, shipping routes, transboundary issues, baseline studies, valued ecosystem components, environmental impacts/effects assessment, noise, and ballast water. The reviewers concluded that there are several shortcomings in data collection, analysis and interpretation in the draft EIS. As a result, the draft EIS does not contain sufficient information to support the Proponent’s conclusions about Project effects on the marine environment, including marine mammals. (Au)

P, J, R, I, G, D, B, L
Airplanes; Canada. Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans; Cumulative effects; Design and construction; Effects monitoring; Environmental impact assessment; Environmental impacts; Food chain; Harbours; Icebreakers; Icebreaking; Location; Marine ecology; Marine mammals; Marine oil spills; Marine pollution; Marine transportation; Mary River Iron Ore Project; Mining; Noise; Ocean waves; Regulatory agencies; Roads; Sea ice; Ships; Suspended solids; Water pollution

G0813, G081, G0815
Foxe Basin, Nunavut; Hudson Strait, Nunavut/Québec; Mary River (71 11 N, 79 21 W) region, Nunavut; Milne Inlet, Nunavut; Steensby Inlet, Nunavut

Polar bears : the natural history of a threatened species   /   Stirling, I.
Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2011.
xv, 330 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN 978-1-55455-155-2
Appendix.
References.
Contains many photographs.
ASTIS record 76513.
Languages: English
Libraries: ACU

No animal is more symbolic of the Arctic than the polar bear. In the short space of 150,000 years, it has undergone behavioural and physiological changes to evolve from a grizzly bear into the most specialized predator of the Arctic sea ice. Yet, its survival is now threatened by global warming. Renowned polar bear scientist Dr. Ian Stirling compresses 40 years of research on these iconic mammals into a new and comprehensive natural history in accessible language, he explains their evolution, life history, behaviour, how they are researched, and the current threat to their very existence. He also explains why polar bears of Hudson Bay have become so important to our understanding of the species, and how Churchill became "The Polar Bear Capital of the World." Maps, tables, graphs, and the most diverse collection of polar bear photographs ever assembled in a single book provide greater insight into this unique mammal. Underlying it all is a call for immediate action, which can still save this magnificent hunter of the Arctic. (Au)

I, G, N, J, E, R, V, D
Adaptation (Biology); Animal behaviour; Animal ecology; Animal food; Animal health; Animal mortality; Animal physiology; Animal population; Animal reproduction; Breakup; Climate change; Co-management; Denning; Endangered species; Environmental impacts; Environmental protection; Evolution (Biology); Fur trade; History; Hunting; International Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears; Landfills; Marine oil spills; Offshore oil well drilling; Polar bears; Pollution; Research; Sea ice; Sea ice ecology; Seals (Animals); Tourist trade; Toxicity; Wildlife habitat; Wildlife law; Wildlife management

G0813, G0814, G0824, G09, G141
Arctic regions; Baffin Bay-Davis Strait; Churchill, Manitoba; Hudson Bay; Hudson Bay region, Nunavut; Novaya Zemlya, Russian Federation; Russian Arctic; Svalbard

Inuit and whalers on Baffin Island through German eyes : Wilhelm Weike's Arctic journal and letters (1883-1884)   /   Müller-Wille, L.   Gieseking, B.   Barr, W. [Translator]
Montréal, Québec : Baraka Books, 2011.
284 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
ISBN 978-1-926824-11-6
References.
ASTIS record 76510.
Languages: English
Libraries: ACU

Wilhelm Weike, born on November 28, 1859 in rural Häverstädt near Minden in eastern Wesphalia, Germany, ... [almost by accident participated] in a scientific expedition to the Inuit and whalers of Baffin Island .... For this expedition [Boas'] declared aims were investigations into the natural history and geodetic surveys. But Boas' real aim was to make contact with the Inuit, the indigenous people of the Arctic, to get to know their culture and to live and travel with them. His research goal was to relate their life-style to their movements on land, sea, and pack ice and to their pattern of settlement as well as to the utilization of available resources. For this trip Franz Boas was looking for assistance and support from somebody who, above all, would unburden him from the problems and duties of everyday life while travelling, relieve him of domestic chores, and also be available as a "Jack-of-all-trades" with regard to his endeavours. ... Weike had been living in the Boas house in Minden, working as a gardener and domestic servant since 1879. Wieke agreed to join the expedition. ... The purpose of the publication of Wilhelm Weike's parallel journal is to make his voice heard beside that of Franz Boas' overpowering scientific presence. As an ordinary man - he remained so throughout his life - Weike was not a historical figure. And so, after more than 125 years a permanent record to his previously hidden literary bequest was made available to the public in Germany. The English edition of Weike's journal and letters was prepared to provide English-language readers everywhere, but particularly in Nunavut and other circumpolar regions, with access to Weike's writings. This way Weike, through his written words, could travel back to the Canadian Arctic giving Inuit and Qallunaat alike insight into this historical document that conveys the simple, unaltered, and external observation and perception of the life of Inuit and whalers on Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin Island) during theearly 1880s. ... (Au)

V, T, N, Y, J, G, E
Biographies; Boas, Franz, 1858-1942; Customs; Ethnography; Expeditions; History; Human ecology; Inuit; Inuit languages; Meteorology; Sea ice; Subsistence; Travels; Weike, Wilhelm, 1859-1917; Whaling

G0813
Baffin Island, Nunavut

Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation Mary River Project environmental impact statement : popular summary   /   Knight Piésold   Baffinland Iron Mines Limited [Sponsor]
[Vancouver, B.C.] : Knight Piésold Ltd., 2010.
ii, 37 p. ; 28 cm.
Indexed a PDF file from the Web.
Appendix.
Report date: December 2010.
ASTIS record 76514.
Languages: English
Web: http://ftp.nirb.ca/02-REVIEWS/ACTIVE%20REVIEWS/08MN053-BAFFINLAND%20MARY%20RIVER/2-REVIEW/05-DRAFT%20EIS/02-DEIS%20SUBMISSION/Vol%2001/App%201B/110121-08MN053-Popular%20Summary-IEDE.pdf

SECTION 1.0 - PROJECT SUMMARY: Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation (Baffinland) has prepared an environmental impact statement (EIS) for development of its Mary River Project. The Project is located on northern Baffin Island, in the Nunavut Territory, in the Canadian arctic. The EIS has been submitted to the Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) for detailed environmental and socio-economic review. This EIS will also be reviewed by the federal and territorial government agencies, Inuit organizations, local communities and other stakeholders. NIRB issued guidelines for the preparation of this EIS on November 16, 2009 and an amendment to the guidelines on November 3, 2010. These guidelines outline the information that Baffinland should include in its EIS. ... SECTION 9.0 - CONCLUSIONS OF THE EIS: The EIS for the Mary River Project includes a thorough environmental impact assessment of Project development plans. The EIS is based on extensive studies of the biophysical and socio-economic environments. Many consultations have been undertaken to identify and address the concerns and interests of local communities, regulatory agencies, and other interested stakeholders and to benefit from the Inuit knowledge of the Elders in the region. The EIS has addressed the topics identified by NIRB in the guidelines provided for the Project. The Project will be designed to meet all relevant regulatory requirements and to avoid, limit, and minimize negative effects where possible and to enhance socio-economic benefits. Baffinland is confident that it has proposed a Project that will provide positive economic returns to investors and benefits to the people, the Government of Nunavut, and Inuit organizations. A comprehensive management and monitoring system has been developed to ensure that the commitments in the EIS will be respected. Baffinland is committed consultations with stakeholders and address public concerns throughout the life of the Project. 9.1 NO SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE IMPACTS ON THE BIOPHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT: The environmental assessment concludes that residual effects of the Project on the valued ecosystem component (VECs) of the biophysical environment will be not significant. Concerns have been expressed over the possibility of large diesel spills associated with refuelling of the Project tank farms. In the unlikely event that it occurs, such a spill would have significant environmental effects. However, refuelling is a well mastered routine activity for all Arctic communities. For the Project, fuel will be delivered to site by tankers only during the open water season. 9.2 POSITIVE SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS: Assessments of potential effects on the socio-economic environment have concluded that there will be significant positive effects on local employment and skills development and that significant revenue will accrue to the Government of Nunavut. These positive effects are expected to result mainly from employment of local residents and payment of Baffinland revenue to government and Inuit organizations. Other effects could occur from Baffinland's procurement of goods and services from northern businesses, and interactions with local hunters through various project operations such as shipping. A major Project benefit will be a growing territorial economy that will decrease economic instability in Nunavut. Increasing the number of ongoing mining projects in Nunavut will help stabilize the territorial economy. The Project will generate benefits to local Inuit communities through capacity-building, employment, and business opportunities, and revenue to the territorial and federal governments in the form of tax revenue. The IIBA, currently under negotiation between Baffinland and the regional Inuit association, will ensure that benefits from the Project flow to nearby Inuit communities and the Qikiqtani Region of Nunavut. Over the long term, the road, railway, and port infrastructure built by the Project will provide opportunities to access f urther mineral deposits in the North Baffin region and could improve access for Inuit harvesting and tourism. The two ports will provide opportunities for additional commercial uses and the bathymetry information collected by the Project will provide important information for shipping lanes through Foxe Basin. In addition, Project activity will help confirm Canadian sovereignty over the region. The EIS is part of the environmental assessment process established for a project under the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement. Under this environmental assessment process, the proponent of a project, such as the Mary River Project, describes the surrounding environment and the proposed development. Effects are then predicted and mitigation plans are developed. The severity or "significance" of residual effects (effects remaining after mitigation measures have been applied), are also evaluated based on established criteria and expert opinion, considering the level of significance attributed by others. A number of regulatory processes apply to this Project, including conformity to the North Baffin Regional Land Use Plan, an environmental review by NIRB and an environmental review by the Canadian Transportation Act. NIRB will coordinate these reviews, as well as a public review necessary to potentially amend the land use plan to accommodate Project needs. The EIS complies with the requirements of NIRB as outlined in the Guidelines for the Preparation of the EIS issued on November 16, 2009 and subsequently amended on November 3, 2010. The EIS consists of 10 volumes, as follows: Volume 1: EIS Main Document - provides an overview of the EIS, including a summary of the proposed Project, background and need for the Project, baseline studies, effect assessment methods and results, as well as the management and mitigation plans to meet commitments in this EIS. Volume 2: Consultation, Regulatory Context, and Assessment Methodology - presents results of extensive consultation, describes reg ulatory requirements, and presents methods used to undertake assessments of potential effects on the biophysical and socio-economic environments. Volume 3: Project Description - describes the proposed Project, including estimated schedule, facilities and infrastructure included in the Project, construction, operation, and closure and post/closure activities, estimated workforce, and alternatives considered to the Project and within the Project. Volume 4: Human Environment - presents results of socio-economic background studies and potential effects of the Project on nearby communities and the people of these communities. Volume 5: Atmospheric Environment - includes results of background atmospheric studies, an assessment of the Project's GHG emissions relative to Nunavut, Canada and the world, and potential effects of the Project on air quality and noise levels in the region. Volume 6: Terrestrial Environment - describes results of background studies and potential effects of the Project on the terrestrial environment, including sensitive landforms, vegetation, birds, and caribou. Volume 7: Freshwater Environment - presents results of background studies and potential effects of the Project on the freshwater aquatic environment, including flow and quality of water, and effects on fish and fish habitat. Volume 8: Marine Environment - addresses results of background studies and potential effects of the Project on the marine environment, including sea ice, water and sediment quality, fish and marine mammals. Volume 9: Cumulative Effects and Other Assessments - assesses cumulative effects of the Project considering past, present, and reasonably foreseeable projects and activities in the region that might also cause effects on valued components assessed in the EIS. Other assessments included an evaluation of potential accidental events, their potential effects, and likelihood of occurrence of these events, effects of the environment on the Project (i.e., extreme weather, climate change), and effects that extend beyond the boundaries of the Nunavut Settlement Area (transboundary effects). Volume 10: EHS Management System - presents Baffinland's comprehensive management system and related management plans that will be established to limit and mitigate any potentially negative effects and enhance benefits of the Project on its employees, contractors, residents of Nunavut, and the natural environment. (Au)

P, J, R, L, T, N, I, D
Animal distribution; Commuting; Cumulative effects; Design and construction; Economic development; Effects monitoring; Employment; Environmental impacts; Harbours; Icebreakers; Inuit; Iron; Land use; Marine mammals; Marine pollution; Marine transportation; Mary River Iron Ore Project; Mental health and well-being; Mining; Occupational training; Ores; Planning; Railroads; Reclamation; Socio-economic effects; Traditional land use and occupancy; Transportation; Waste management; Waste rock

G0813, G081, G0815
Foxe Basin, Nunavut; Hudson Strait, Nunavut/Québec; Mary River (71 11 N, 79 21 W) region, Nunavut; Milne Inlet region, Nunavut; Milne Inlet, Nunavut; Steensby Inlet region, Nunavut; Steensby Inlet, Nunavut

An Inuvialuit journey to the Smithsonian   /   Lyons, N.
(Up here, v. 26, no. 3, Mar. 2010, [2] p.)
Indexed a PDF file from the Web.
ASTIS record 76493.
Languages: English
Web: http://macfarlane.s3.amazonaws.com/media_uploads/1319921001772/original/Lyons_Up%20Here_March%202010.pdf

Three grown men are running around the Smithsonian Institution looking for ancient beluga-hunting weapons. On finding each new one, they fall to avidly discussing its parts and its details of manufacture. They practice the motion of throwing it and conjecture how far it might go. James Pokiak and Mervin Joe are Inuvialuit hunters. Pokiak runs a big-game guiding operation out of Tuktoyaktuk, NWT. Joe is a resource conservation officer at Parks Canada in Inuvik. The third man is Stephen Loring, curator at the Smithsonian's Arctic Studies Center. The object of their intrigue is a spear thrower - a long narrow board used to increase the speed and throwing distance of a hunting spear. Loring is locating spear throwers from across the Arctic collections for Pokiak and Joe; the hunters are caught up in the vision of their forefathers making ready for the hunt - waiting for the signal of the eldest hunter, paddling their kayaks in a line into the shallows of the Mackenzie Delta, taking up their spears, and launching them into the pod of trapped whales. Spear throwers and many other types of historic artifacts are part of a larger collection that Pokiak, Joe and a delegation of Inuvialuit community members visited at the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington DC, in November 2009. This collection constitutes one of the earliest and largest collections from Inuvialuit territory. Nearly 300 land-based and domestic objects were purchased by Hudson's Bay trader Roderick MacFarlane in the Anderson River area, east of the Mackenzie Delta, in the mid to late 1860s. The specimens were collected, preserved and prepared for shipping with the help of local Inuvialuit and Dene people, then shipped south by canoe and York boat. The 'MacFarlane Collection' would become one of the founding collections of the Smithsonian Institution. It represents an impressive array of objects made and used by Inuvialuit in the mid 19th century - parkas, mukluks, hunting bags, sewing kits, fishing tackle, hunting gear, fire starters, pipes and labrets, in addition to replicas of watercraft and paddles. Although the collection is noted for its breadth and outstanding preservation, it remains little known, except among a few Arctic scholars. Few of the items have ever been displayed or studied. And, until recently, its very existence remained unknown to most Inuvialuit. This situation is changing with a project that seeks to create better Inuvialuit access to and awareness of the MacFarlane Collection. The November journey to the Smithsonian kicked off the project, bringing Inuvialuit elders, students and educators, alongside a host of anthropologists and filmmakers, together for a week-long visit and workshop. The trip was organized by Natasha Lyons of Simon Fraser University, Catherine Cockney of the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre, and Mervin Joe. We gathered each day in the climate-controlled conditions of the Smithsonian's artifact storage facility. It was riveting to watch as elders and youth handled, discussed, and pondered over objects both familiar and obscure. They talked at length about each item and recalled stories of their youth and their parents' youth. Many artifacts set the visitors on paths of personal research and inquiry. Freda Raddi of Tuktoyaktuk marvelled over the careful handiwork and design of the gloves in the collection - glove-making is a lost art among the Inuvialuit, and Raddi was keen to return home with the patterns that she traced to work on producing replicas. Albert Elias of Ulukhaktok was very taken with the sinew-backed bows, and was excited to do more research with elders back home. The project is now entering its second phase, which will see a range of outreach activities in Inuvialuit communities. Later this spring, the participants will again assemble to begin sharing their experiences in Washington in schools and community groups, and to display the replicas, artworks, and media that they are producing. Workshops are planned in several communities to gain and document more knowledge about the items in the collection, and a website is also in the works. Inuvialuit interest in the collection is taking on a life of its own. As young and old experience the everyday objects of a century-and-a-half-ago, you see a light catch in their eyes. These items continue to have relevance and meaning in contemporary life. You see the pride and nostalgia in a lifestyle now passed from view, and you see the resilience of a people and many elements of traditional life that continue into the present. (Au)

U, T, R
Anthropology; Archaeology; Artifacts; Culture (Anthropology); Dene Indians; Design and construction; Education; Elders; Ethnographic collections; Hunting; Inuit; MacFarlane, Roderick, 1833-1920; Smithsonian Institution; Traditional clothing; Traditional knowledge; Youth

G0812
Anderson River region, N.W.T.; Inuvialuit Settlement Region, N.W.T./Yukon; Mackenzie Delta, N.W.T.

Summary - the Greenland Ice Sheet in a changing climate : snow, water, ice and permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) 2009   /   Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
Oslo, Norway : AMAP Secretariat, 2009.
22 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
Cover title.
ASTIS record 76518.
Languages: English
Web: http://amap.no/swipa/GRIS_Layman_English_Secure.pdf
Libraries: ACU

This report presents a summary of the initial scientific findings of work conducted on the Greenland Ice Sheet (GRIS) component of the Arctic Council's Cryosphere project - Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA). It is a summary of the comprehensive and fully-referenced scientific and technical report entitled The Greenland Ice Sheet in a Changing Climate: Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA). The SWIPA project was established by the Arctic Council in April 2008 as a follow-up to the 2005 Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA). Its goal is to assess current scientific information on changes in the Arctic cryosphere, including the impacts due to changes in the cryosphere that have potentially far reaching implications for both the Arctic and the Earth as a whole. The SWIPA project is coordinated by the Arctic Council's Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) in cooperation with the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA), the International Polar Year, and the WCRP-CliC Program (for further information see www.amap.no/swipa). The Greenland Ice Sheet component of the SWIPA project is led by Denmark. This summary report is also available in Chinese, Danish, French, Greenlandic and Russian translations; however, the English language version constitutes the official version of the report. The SWIPA-GRIS reports, together with other SWIPA products, will be presented at the UNFCCC COP15 meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009. The results of the SWIPA project will also be provided to the UNFCCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for use in future IPCC assessments. ... (Au)

E, F, J, G, N, T, R, U
Climate change; Effects monitoring; Effects of climate on ice; Environmental impacts; Fisheries; Ice sheets; Icebergs; Inuit; Inuit archaeology; Marine ecology; Mass balance; Mathematical models; Melting; Population; Sea ice; Socio-economic effects; Temporal variations

G10, G02
Arctic regions; Arctic waters; Greenland; Ilulissat, Greenland

Helicobacter pylori infection in Canada's Arctic : searching for the solutions   /   Cheung, J.   Goodman, K.   Munday, R.   Heavner, K.   Huntington, J.   Morse, J.   Veldhuyzen van Zanten, S.   Fedorak, R.N.   Corriveau, A.   Bailey, R.J.
(Canadian journal of gastroenterology, v. 22, no. 11, Nov. 2007, p. 912-916, ill., map)
References.
French abstract provided.
Indexed a PDF file from the Web.
ASTIS record 76495.
Languages: English
Web: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2661193/
Libraries: ACU

The Canadian North Helicobacter pylori (CANHelp) working group is a team composed of investigators, health officials and community leaders from Alberta and the Northwest Territories. The group's initial goals are to investigate the impact of H pylori infection on Canada's Arctic communities; subsequent goals include identifying treatment strategies that are effective in this region and developing recommendations for health policy aimed at management of H pylori infection. The team's investigations have begun with the Aklavik H pylori Project in the Aboriginal community of Aklavik, Northwest Territories. (Au)

K, T, R
Biological sampling; Cancer; Dene Indians; Health; Health care; Health care workers; Helicobacter pylori; Intestines; Inuit; Native peoples; Public participation; Research; Socio-economic effects

G0821
Aklavik, N.W.T.

Forms, response times and variability of relative sea-level curves, glaciated North America   /   Dyke, A.S.   Peltier, W.R.
(Geomorphology, v. 32, no. 3-4, Mar. 2000, p. 315-333, ill., maps)
(PCSP/PPCP contribution, no. 003-99)
ASTIS record 76524.
Languages: English
Web: doi:10.1016/S0169-555X(99)00102-6
Libraries: ACU

Relative sea level curves from glaciated North America reveal coherent spatial patterns of response times. In the Laurentide Ice Sheet area, curve half-lives range from 1.2-1.4 ka at the uplift centre to 1.7-2 ka in a ridge of high values inboard of the glacial limit. Half-lives decline from this ridge to less than 1 ka along the margin. In the Innuitian Ice Sheet area, half-lives are about 2 ka at the uplift centre and decline to less than 1 ka at the margin. The central Laurentide response times are about half those of central Fennoscandia. This accords with the theoretical expectation that central response times are inversely proportional to ice sheet radius for ice loads large enough that rebound at the centre is insensitive to lithospheric thickness. The Innuitian central response time indicates that rebound at the centre of this ice sheet, which is much smaller than the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet, remains sensitive to lithospheric thickness. Radial gradients in response times reflect the increasing influence of the lithosphere at sites increasingly closer to the margin. Along this gradient, rebound progresses as though at the centres of smaller and smaller ice sheets. That is, the effective spatial scale of the ice load decreases toward the margin. Near the glacial limit, postglacial isostatic adjustment is complicated by forebulge migration and collapse. This is seen most strongly in the relative sea level record of Atlantic Canada, which has subsided during the Holocene more than 20 m more than the adjacent American seaboard. The relative sea level history of some areas, notably the St. Lawrence Estuary, is complicated by tectonic processes. (Au)

A, B, I
Beaches; Bones; Bowhead whales; Deglaciation; Driftwood; Flow; Geomorphology; Glacial epoch; Laurentide Ice Sheet; Mollusks; Moraines; Palaeogeography; Radiocarbon dating; Recent epoch; Sea level; Spatial distribution; Subsidence

G08, G0813, G0826, G0827, G0821, G10, G0812, G0828
Admiralty Inlet region, Nunavut; Atlantic Provinces; Canada; Canadian Arctic; Devon Island, Nunavut; Fraser River region, Labrador; Hudson Bay region, Québec; Jones Sound region, Nunavut; Kuujjuarapik, Québec; Labrador; Mackenzie Delta, N.W.T.; Nastapoka, Rivière, region, Québec; Prince Regent Inlet region, Nunavut; Qeqertarsuaq Island, Greenland; Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia; St. Lawrence, Gulf of, region, Canada; Vancouver Island, British Columbia; Wellington Channel region, Nunavut

The influence of river discharge on the thawing of sea ice, Mackenzie River Delta : albedo and temperature analyses   /   Dean, K.G.   Stringer, W.J.   Ahlnäs, K.   Searcy, C.   Weingartner, T.
(Polar research, v. 13, no. 1, June 1994, p. 83-94, ill., map)
References.
ASTIS record 76496.
Languages: English
Web: doi:10.1111/j.1751-8369.1994.tb00439.x
Libraries: ACU

Multi-temporal satellite images, field observations and field measurements were used to investigate the mechanisms by which sea ice melts offshore from the Mackenzie River Delta. Satellite data recorded between April and August 1986 were corrected to a map projection and calibrated such that albedo and temperature values could be compared. Three stages in the melting of sea ice were identified: flooding (overflows), insolation and melting by warm river water. The albedo values of overflows were as much as 1/7 that of ice values while the albedo of ice decreased by 1/3 over the summer. Approximately two weeks after the overflows develop, sea surface temperatures rise as the river-discharge peaks and becomes the dominant source of energy. By this process, ice removal in the delta regime is initiated two months earlier than adjacent coasts with minimal runoff. However, the net result is only a two-week acceleration of ice removal in the delta region. (Au)

F, G, J, E
Albedo; Breakup; Fast ice; Floods; Ice cover; Infrared remote sensing; Melting; Polynyas; River discharges; Satellite photography; Sea ice; Sediment transport; Surface temperature; Water masses

G0812, G03, G07
Arctic Ocean; Canadian Beaufort Sea; Kugmallit Bay, N.W.T.; Mackenzie Delta, N.W.T.; Mackenzie Estuary, N.W.T./Yukon; Mackenzie River, N.W.T.

Science in the Subarctic : trappers, traders, and the Smithsonian Institution   /   Lindsay, D.
Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.
xvii, 176 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN 1560982330
Appendix.
References.
ASTIS record 76512.
Languages: English
Libraries: ACU

... In his 37 years at the Smithsonian, first as assistant secretary and then as secretary, Baird went a long way toward realizing his goal ... [to establish the Smithsonian as the preeminent repository for North American natural history collections.] Baird's role in nineteenth-century North American science extended beyond the curatorial and the bureaucratic .... The assistant secretary was instrumental in bringing about the systematization and rationalization of field methods that occurred in the natural sciences at midcentury. Many of his procedural dicta were eventually adopted by his contemporaries, especially the ornithologists. But the northern traders and native collectors who collected specimens for the Smithsonian, and who were recruited and trained by Robert Kennicott in conformity with Baird's early instructions, were some of the first fieldworkers to apply the Bairdian approach. Part 1 of Science in the Subarctic is therefore devoted to an examination of Baird's research goals, as well as to the strategies Baird developed to realize those goals. Analyses of Baird's reasons for wanting to direct and control fieldwork, as well as descriptions of the preliminary steps that were taken to ensure that fieldwork conformed with Smithsonian standards, cast new light on his role at the Smithsonian and in North American science and establish a context for the detailed examination of northern fieldwork found in Part 2. Kennicott's eagerness to return north just three years after arriving home from an initial northern expedition is also understandable, given Baird's priorities and programs. Kennicott set out for Russian America in the spring of 1865 to complete the field studies he had begun in 1859 in the Mackenzie River District of the Hudson's Bay Company's northern territories. In addition to examining the scientific processes and products of Smithsonian-sponsored fieldwork, Part 2 provides detailed descriptions of nineteenth-century life. ... Part 3 describes the trials and tribulations of Kennicott's second trip north, examines Kennicott's uneasy and unprofitable association with the trip's corporate sponsor, and shows how Western Union's expedition differed from the Mackenzie River expedition. ... Science in the Subarctic is ultimately an examination of two episodes in the history of early Smithsonian-sponsored fieldwork. ... (Au)

V, N, T, B, H
Animal collections; Animal taxonomy; Anthropology; Artifacts; Botany; Culture (Anthropology); Customs; Dene Indians; Employees; Ethnographic collections; Ethnography; Expeditions; Exploration; Forts; Fur trade; History; Hudson's Bay Company; Inuit; Kennicott, Robert, 1835-1864; MacFarlane, Roderick, 1833-1920; Minerals; Natural history; Plant collections; Research; Scientists; Smithsonian Institution; Social interaction; Trade and barter; Trapping; Travels; Zoology

G0812, G06, G0811
Alaska; Fort Simpson, N.W.T.; Illinois; Inuvialuit Settlement Region, N.W.T./Yukon; Mackenzie River region, N.W.T.

Morphology and development of an alluvial fan in a permafrost region, Aklavik Range, Canada   /   Catto, N.R.
(Geografiska annaler. Series A, Physical geography, v. 75, no. 3, 1993, p. 83-93, ill., maps)
References.
ASTIS record 76494.
Languages: English
Web: http://www.jstor.org/stable/521027?seq=1
Libraries: ACU

Alluvial fans have developed under semiarid conditions in the continuous permafrost zone along the Aklavik Range of northwestern Canada. The fans are formed by a series of steep, narrow, coalescing aprons debouching from nivation-modified hollows in shale and siltstone. The morphology and development of one of these fans, the Mount Goodenough North fan, has been studied in detail. Channel development is largely confined to the fan head area, and the lower parts of the fan are marked by gelifluction terracettes and earth hummocks. The non-channelized parts of the fan are dominantly composed of silty diamicton units. The alluvial fan was formed by gelifluction and snowmelt-induced debris flow, with fluvial processes playing a minor role. These processes are a consequence of the semi-arid conditions marked by summer water influx, generated through snowmelt and degradation of segregated ice developed preferentially in the silty diamictons. The dominant controls on the mode of fan development and sedimentation are the composition and texture of the source material, and the presence of snowfall accumulations and segregated ice. The aridity of the climate limits the amount of fluvial activity, but in itself does not represent the controlling factor in fan morphology and sedimentation. (Au)

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Creep; Geomorphology; Ground ice; Groundwater; Mass wasting; Movement; Periglacial landforms; Permafrost; Plant distribution; Polar semi-deserts; Rivers; Sedimentation; Sediments (Geology); Shale; Silt; Snow; Snowmelt; Stream flow

G0812
Aklavik Range, N.W.T.; Goodenough, Mount, region, N.W.T.

Fort Anderson : the first post for trade in the western Arctic   /   Stager, J.K.
(Geographical bulletin, v. 9, no. 1, 1967, p. 45-56, ill., maps)
References.
ASTIS record 76511.
Languages: English
Libraries: ACU

The economic and geographic aspects relative to the establishment of Fort Anderson, N.W.T., in 1861 and its final abandonment in 1866 are discussed. (Au)

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Animals; Dene Indians; Design and construction; Dogsledding; Drainage; Economic conditions; Epidemics; Equipment and supplies; Expeditions; Exploration; Fishes; Forts; Fur trade; Geography; History; Hudson's Bay Company; Hunting; Inuit; Inuit-Indian relations; MacFarlane, Roderick, 1833-1920; Rivers; Social interaction; Trade and barter; Transportation; Wood fuel

G0812
Anderson River region, N.W.T.; Colville Lake, N.W.T.; Fort Good Hope, N.W.T.; Fort McPherson, N.W.T.; Liverpool Bay region, N.W.T.; Mackenzie River region, N.W.T.

Roderick MacFarlane of Anderson River and fort   /   Hohn, E.O.
(Beaver, Winter 1963, p. 22-29, ill., map)
ASTIS record 76497.
Languages: English
Libraries: ACU

MacFarlane was sent by the Hudson's Bay Company to reconnoitre the valley of the Anderson River, to follow it to its mouth and to investigate the possibilities of trade with its Eskimo inhabitants. This is an account of his journeys, which led to the establishment of Fort Anderson, and its brief life of only 5 years, and the story and results of MacFarlane's explorations. (ASTIS)

V, T, N, L, I
Animal collections; Artifacts; Biographies; Canoes; Culture (Anthropology); Dene Indians; Epidemics; Ethnographic collections; Ethnography; Expeditions; Exploration; Forts; Fur trade; Geographical names; History; Hudson's Bay Company; Hunting; Igloos; Inuit; Inuit-Indian relations; MacFarlane, Roderick, 1833-1920; Population; Smithsonian Institution; Social interaction; Trade and barter; Traditional clothing

G0812
Anderson River region, N.W.T.; Colville Lake, N.W.T.; Fort Good Hope, N.W.T.; Inuvialuit Settlement Region, N.W.T./Yukon; Liverpool Bay region, N.W.T.; Mackenzie River region, N.W.T.; Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula, N.W.T.

On an expedition down the Begh-ula or Anderson River   /   MacFarlane, R.
(Canadian record of science, v. 4, 1890-1891, p. 28-53)
ASTIS record 76498.
Languages: English
Libraries: ACU

In 1857, Mr. MacFarlane carried out an exploratory expedition from Fort Good Hope on the Mackenzie River, to the Anderson River, and down that river, returning by a different route to Fort Good Hope. A report on this expedition was made by him to the late Mr. James Anderson, then in charge of Mackenzie River district, for the Hudson Bay Company. This report was not written for publication, but a copy of it was handed to me about a year ago by Mr. J. Anderson, son of the late Chief Factor. As the report contained much information respecting a region of which scarcely anything is known, I applied to Mr. MacFarlane for his permission to have it printed. This permission Mr. MacFarlane kindly accorded, and the narrative is here given as written by him in the year of the exploration, with the omission merely of some portions of the original, bearing upon the fur trade and business of the Company. Mr. MacFarlane's services to science in the extreme northern portions of the continent are we11 known, and his report of his journey to the Anderson River, gives further evidences of close and accurate observation, which would be creditable as the result of an expedition undertaken for scientific purposes, instead of primarily in the interests of the fur trade. The region traversed lies to the east of the Mackenzie and to the north of Great Bear Lake, within the Arctic circle. A short notice of the Anderson or Begh-ula River is to be found in Sir J. Richardson's Journal of a Boat Voyage (Vol. I, p. 265), and a brief description of the country in its vicinity is given by Abbé Petitot, in the Bulletin de la Societé de Geographie, (Vol. X., p. 173). The map accompanying the article of Abbé Petitot, is the best availible of the region in question and may be consulted in following Mr. MacFarlane's route. His course was northward and eastward from Fort Good Hope to the Lockhart River, thence down that river and the Anderson (of which it is a tributary), nearly to the Arctic coast, where he was turned back by the Eskimo. He then returned southward by land, and after examining an additional portion of the Anderson, above the mouth of the Lockhart, together with another tributary named the Ross, he struck across in a westward direction to the Peau de Lièvre or Hare-skin River by which he returned to Fort Good Hope. Mr. MacFarlane has also furnished me with an additional short general description of the Barren Grounds, to the east of the Anderson River, between that river and Franklin Bay, crossed by him four times in 1862 to 1865 for the purpose of collecting birds, eggs, etc., for the Smithsonian Institution. Some fossils collected by Mr. MacFarlane in the course of these expeditions are described by Meek in his paper, published in the Transactions of the Chicago Academy of Science, (Vol. I, p. 75). These are referred to in my Notes to Accompany a Geological Map of the Northern Portion of the Dominion of Canada, (Annual Report Geol. Surv. Can., 1886, p. 30) but Mr. MacFarlane's valuable observations were not then available for reference in connection with the compilation of the map. It would now appear from them, that between the Mackenzie River and Franklin Bay; the Devonian and probably also the Cretaceous rocks, came further south than was supposed, covering a portion of the region coloured as Archaean on the map. (Au)

V, T, N, L, I, A, H
Animals; Artifacts; Canoes; Culture (Anthropology); Dene Indians; Epidemics; Ethnographic collections; Ethnography; Exploration; Fur trade; Geographical names; Geography; History; Hudson's Bay Company; Hunting; Inland water navigation; Inland water transportation; Inuit; Inuit-Indian relations; MacFarlane, Roderick, 1833-1920; Natural history; Plant cover; Smithsonian Institution; Social interaction; Trade and barter; Traditional clothing

G0812
Anderson River region, N.W.T.; Colville Lake, N.W.T.; Fort Good Hope, N.W.T.; Inuvialuit Settlement Region, N.W.T./Yukon; Liverpool Bay region, N.W.T.; Mackenzie River region, N.W.T.; Mackenzie River, N.W.T.; Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula, N.W.T.

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