New Issue Available
March 2009 Issue of the Journal ARCTIC
Volume 62, Number 1
Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA)
For further information, please visit the website:
http://www.arctic.ucalgary.ca/
The Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) announces publication of
the March 2009 issue of the journal ARCTIC, Volume 62, Number 1. 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 bi-national 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 March 2009 issue of ARCTIC:
"Liver Parasites and Body Condition in Relation to Environmental
Contaminants in Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) from Labrador, Canada"
By: Beth Pollock, Basile Penashue, Scott McBurney, John Vanleeuwen,
Pierre-Yves Daoust, Neil M. Burgess and Andrew R. Tasker
"Movement and Aggregation of Eastern Hudson Bay Beluga Whales
(Delphinapterus leucas): A Comparison of Patterns Found through
Satellite Telemetry and Nunavik Traditional Ecological Knowledge"
By: A.E. Lewis, M.O. Hammill, M. Power, D.W. Doidge and V. Lesage
"Radar Observations of Arctic Bird Migration in the Beringia Region"
By: A. Hedenstrom, T. Alerstam, J. Backman, G.A. Gudmundsson, S.
Henningsson, H. Karlsson, M. Rosen and R. Strandberg
"A 10400-Year-Old Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) Skull from Ellef
Ringnes Island, Nunavut: Implications for Sea-Ice Conditions in High
Arctic Canada at the End of the Last Glaciation"
By: Nigel Atkinson
"Eighteenth Century Labrador Inuit in England"
By: Marianne P. Stopp
"Distribution and Diet of Ivory Gulls (Pagophila eburnea) in the North
Water Polynya"
By: Nina J. Karnovsky, Keith A. Hobson, Zachary W. Brown and George L.
Hunt, Jr.
"Drinking Water in Northwestern Alaska: Using or Not Using Centralized
Water Systems in Two Rural Communities"
By: Elizabeth Marino, Dan White, Peter Schweitzer, Molly Chambers and
Josh Wisniewski
"Polynyas and Tidal Currents in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago"
By: Charles G. Hannah, Frederic Dupont and Michael Dunphy
"Status of High Arctic Black-Legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)
Colonies in Barrow Strait, Nunavut, Canada"
By: Mark L. Mallory, Jason A. Akearok and Anthony J. Gaston
Along with six book reviews, the issue contains an Arctic Profile of
Josephine Diebitsch Peary (1863 - 1955), written by Patricia Pierce
Erikson.
The InfoNorth essay, entitled "Northern Exposure, Promoting Arctic
Science News to the Canadian Public," was written by AINA's Director of
Communications, Ruth Klinkhammer. Starting with the March 2009 issue,
the news items and conference listings will no longer appear in the
print journal. In addition to writing about the promotion of northern
science news, Ruth has been working hard on revising and expanding the
AINA website over the past few months. The AINA home page now includes
up-to-date news briefs, stories about current research in the Arctic,
and information on northern-related events occurring in the Calgary
region and elsewhere, as well as quick links to various aspects of the
Arctic Institute's activities, such as the back issues of the journal
Arctic and the Arctic Science and Technology Information System
database. By moving the news items and conference listing to the
website, journal staff can update the information much more frequently
and effectively. The journal invites all readers to visit the AINA
website often to access these offerings (http://www.arctic.ucalgary.ca).