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In this announcement:
1. Raytheon Polar Services Company and Principle Investigator Customer
Service Plan Available
Antarctic Geospatial Information Center
2009-2010 Season
2. September 2009 Issue of the Journal ARCTIC
Volume 62, Number 3
Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA)
- Raytheon Polar Services Company and Principle Investigator Customer
Service Plan Available
Antarctic Geospatial Information Center
2009-2010 Season
The Raytheon Polar Services Company (RPSC) and Principle Investigator
Customer Service Plan for the 2009-2010 season is available. To view the
plan in its entirety, please go to:
http://psp.tamu.edu/news-1/antarctic-gis-services.html.
The policy of the Antarctic Geospatial Information Center (AGIC) is to
develop and create maps requested by select RPSC personnel and NSF
approved funded Principle Investigators. Maps include traverse/route
progress, sea ice extent, helo and fixed wing landing site, fuel cache
location, ice road, hiking route, field camp location, environmental
management, USAP stations, construction planning, surveyor, Field Safety
Training (FSTP), and Search and Rescue (SAR).
The Antarctic Geospatial Information Center (AGIC) is a National Science
Foundation (NSF) funded event established in October 2007 to create,
collect, distribute, and archive Antarctic geospatial information to
serve the needs of the United States Antarctic Program (USAP)
operations, research, and education communities. AGIC provides
cartographic services, geospatial applications, data archiving, and data
delivery solutions for Antarctic geospatial data.
For further information regarding RPSC please go to:
http://rpsc.raytheon.com/.
For further information regarding AGIC please go to:
www.agic.umn.edu.
Or contact:
Brad Herried
Email: herried [at] gmail.com
Michelle LaRue
Email: larue010 [at] umn.edu
Paul Morin
Email: lpaul [at] umn.edu
- September 2009 Issue of the Journal ARCTIC
Volume 62, Number 3
Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA)
The Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) announces publication of
the September 2009 issue of the journal ARCTIC, Volume 62, Number 3. A
non-profit membership organization and multidisciplinary research
institute of the University of Calgary, AINA's mandate is to advance the
study of the North American and circumpolar Arctic through the natural
and social sciences, as well as the arts and humanities, and to acquire,
preserve, and disseminate information on physical, environmental, and
social conditions in the North. Created as a binational corporation in
1945, the Institute's United States Corporation is housed at the
University of Alaska Fairbanks.
For information on becoming an AINA member and receiving the journal,
please visit the Institute's website at: http://www.arctic.ucalgary.ca/.
The following papers appear in the September 2009 issue of ARCTIC:
"The Use of Dog Sledges during the British Search for the Missing
Franklin Expedition in the North American Arctic Islands, 1848-59"
By: William Barr
"New Radiocarbon-Dated Vertebrate Fossils from Herschel Island:
Implications for the Palaeoenvironments and Glacial Chronology of the
Beaufort Sea Coastlands"
By: Grant D. Zazula, P. Gregory Hare, and John E. Storer
"Relating Biomass and Leaf Area Index to Non-destructive Measurements in
Order to Monitor Changes in Arctic Vegetation"
By: Wenjun Chen, Junhua Li, Yu Zhang, Fuqun Zhou, Klaus Koehler, Sylvain
LeBlanc, Robert Fraser, Ian Olthof, Yinsuo Zhang, and Jixin Wang
"A Century of Climate Change for Fairbanks, Alaska"
By: Gerd Wendler and Martha Shulski
"Change in Abundance of Pacific Brant Wintering in Alaska: Evidence of a
Climate Warming Effect?"
By: David H. Ward, Christian P. Dau, T. Lee Tibbitts, James S. Sedinger,
Betty A. Anderson, and James E. Hines
"Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) Predation of Broad Whitefish (Coregonus
nasus) in the Mackenzie Delta Region, Northwest Territories"
By: Oliver E. Barker and Andrew E. Derocher
"After Whom is Herschel Island Named?"
By: C.R. Burn
"Biogeography of Freshwater Ostracodes in the Canadian Arctic
Archipelago"
By: Joan Bunbury and Konrad Gajewski
"Sources of Breeding Season Mortality in Canadian Arctic Seabirds"
By: Mark L. Mallory, Anthony J. Gaston, and H. Grant Gilchrist
"White Spruce Seedling (Picea glauca) Discovered North of the Brooks
Range Along Alaska's Dalton Highway"
By: Wendy K. Elsner and Janet C. Jorgenson
The September issue also contains:
- Seven book reviews and two letters to the editor;
- An Arctic Profile of John C. Cantwell (1859-1940) and the Kobuk
(Kowak) River, Alaska, written by H. Jesse Walker;
- An obituary for Chauncey Chester Loomis Jr., written by AINA
Research Associate and Fellow Constance Martin; and
- A commentary entitled "Facing a Future of Change: Wild Migratory
Caribou and Reindeer," written by Anne Gunn, Don Russell, Robert G.
White, and Gary Kofinas.
Peter Adams, Professor Emeritus at Trent University and former Member of
Parliament for Peterborough, Ontario, provides a retrospective on the
1959 reconnaissance year of the McGill Axel Heiberg Expeditions in the
September 2009 InfoNorth essay.
For information on becoming an AINA member and receiving the journal,
please visit the Institute's website at: http://www.arctic.ucalgary.ca/.