Arctic Canada
The characteristics and experience of community food program users in arctic Canada: a case study from Iqaluit, Nunavut
... northern Canada, in- cluding obtaining university research ethics board con- sent from McGill University (REB#: 65–0710), a research license from the Nunavut Research Institute (#0104810 NA), eliciting informed ...
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Microorganisms in Small Patterned Ground Features and Adjacent Vegetated Soils along Topographic and Climatic Gradients in the High Arctic, Canada
... Total microbial biomass C, the most probable number of heterotrophic bacteria and fungal genera vary along the bioclimatic gradient in the High Arctic Islands in Canada. Differences in soil microbial ...
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Inferred gas hydrate and permafrost stability history models linked to climate change in the Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin, Arctic Canada
... The geological setting is a clue to terrestrial GH formation, with important implications for past climates. Osadetz and Chen illustrated BMB GH accumulation characteristics, not- ing particularly that most GH resources ...
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Early Cretaceous vegetation and climate change at high latitude: Palynological evidence from Isachsen Formation, Arctic Canada
... Angiosperm pollen first appears in late Albian-aged strata of the central Sverdrup Basin: two species of tricolpate pollen are reported from uppermost beds of Christopher Formation on Ellef Ringnes and Amund Ringnes ...
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Validity of a Single Item Food Security Questionnaire in Arctic Canada
... con fi rmed the high validity of the same question item. These results indicate that a 1-to-2 question item tool can be used for rapid assessment of adult and child household food insecurity in the Arctic. As ...
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Ice-stream flow switching by up-ice propagation of instabilities along glacial marginal troughs
... The analyzed troughs are located on the northeastern Baffin Island shelf in western Baffin Bay, eastern Arctic Canada. The trough system is characterized by two cross-shelf troughs – Scott and Sam Ford – ...
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Global glacier changes: a revised assessment of committed mass losses and sampling uncertainties
... Several modeling studies have projected global-scale tran- sient glacier mass changes in response to forcing from cli- mate models (e.g., Raper and Braithwaite, 2006; Radi´c and Hock, 2011; Marzeion et al., 2012; Slangen ...
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Donald Evan McAllister, 1934-2001: The Growth of Ichthyological Research at the National Museum of Canada/Canadian Museum of Nature
... of Arctic Canada, the miss- ing piece in comprehensive coverage of Canadian fish- es, as books on the Pacific, the Atlantic, and the fresh- water species had appeared or were planned, sponsored by Fisheries ...
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From River Trails to Adaptive Co-Management: Learning and Relating with Inuit Inhabitants of the Thelon River, Canada
... This article draws upon community-based case study research to illuminate Inuit uses of and relationships with the Thelon River in Arctic Canada. Local and traditional knowledge related to this special and ...
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The determination of gold in vegetation and its application to specific problems in biogeochemistry : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Chemistry in the Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Massey University
... Relationship between plant and till gold levels in all species of plants from Arctic Canada ............... ix LIST OF TABLES.[r] ...
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A tribute to Laurie Lynn Consaul, 1960–2012
... Laurie was in my mind first and foremost an arctic botanist. We first met in the summer of 1991 at Alexan- dra Fiord, Ellesmere Island (where I was assisting at an entomology camp, my first trip to the ...
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Seasonal evolution of the effective thermal conductivity of the snow and the soil in high Arctic herb tundra at Bylot Island, Canada
... son and Sturm, 1993; Domine et al., 2002; Sturm and Ben- son, 2004; Sturm et al., 2008), especially in areas of mod- erate wind, and mostly consists of a lower depth hoar layer and an upper wind slab. The depth hoar ...
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What role can unmanned aerial vehicles play in emergency response in the Arctic: A case study from Canada
... the Arctic, UAVs have been successfully applied in disaster response, backcountry and remote medicine, hazard monitoring, and for capturing environmental hazards [19–22], while in the Arctic, medium-size ...
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Arctic Rabies – A Review
... the Arctic before 1945 is sparsely ...in arctic regions by Williams ...rabies-infected arctic foxes, have caused severe problems in several arctic areas, some- times reducing the number of ...
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Tax Mechanisms of Economic Development and the Improvement of Migration Situation in the Russian Arctic
... the Arctic, the impact of which is comparable to or even surpasses the impact of climate dynamics (Pilyasov, 2015; Larsen and Fondahl, ...Russian Arctic (Lukin, ...Russian Arctic, will not only fail ...
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Sedimentary record from the Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean: implications for late to middle Pleistocene glacial history
... We infer that sediment with a concerted enrichment in smectite, kaolinite, and chlorite clay minerals associated with coarse fractions was transported to the Canada Basin primar- ily in relation to the existence ...
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Origin, burial and preservation of late Pleistocene-age glacier ice in Arctic permafrost (Bylot Island, NU, Canada)
... the Arctic have indicated that con- siderable amounts of late Pleistocene glacier ice survived the deglaciation and are still preserved in ...glaciated Arctic landscapes are still strongly determined by ...
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Conflict Resolution in the Arctic: A Case Study of Arctic Council Involvement
... the Arctic Council might ...the Arctic Council and through the BEAC and resulted in many fishing licenses being issued to Russian and Icelandic ships (Grydehøj, ...the Arctic Council, there is still ...
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Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) as sentinels for the elucidation of Arctic environmental change processes:a comprehensive review combined with ArcRisk project results
... an Arctic marine pelagic food ...the Arctic Ocean, resulting in increasing concentrations of particulate organic carbon (POC) in the water ...the Arctic Ocean and associated this decrease to limited ...
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The Impact of the Processes in the Southern Ocean on ENSO Development
... in Arctic and Antarctic bottom ...the Arctic mode is forced by northward winds over the entrances to the polar ...between Arctic and Antarctic bottom pressure, but there is an anticorrelation between ...
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