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  1. Reference Guide Available
    Conduct of Traditional Knowledge Research
    By: Stephen Kilburn and Peter Armitage

  2. Newsletter Available
    Ice Bits, Summer 2015
    U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office

  3. Report and Short Films Available
    Arctic Food Security
    By: Philip Loring and Craig Gerlach

  4. Summary Available
    FRAM 2014-2015
    Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
    Nansen Center

  1. Reference Guide Available
    Conduct of Traditional Knowledge Research
    By: Stephen Kilburn and Peter Armitage

Authors Stephen Kilburn and Peter Armitage announce that a new reference
guide entitled "Conduct of Traditional Knowledge Research" is now
available. Published by the Wildlife Management Advisory Council (North
Slope) as a PDF, the complete reference guide can be downloaded from:
http://www.wmacns.ca/pdfs/401_ConductOfTraditionalKnowledge_Sept14_fnl_…

The document provides detailed technical guidance and, importantly,
supporting rationale for best practices that should be fully considered
by anyone contemplating, undertaking, and applying traditional knowledge
research on the Yukon North Slope. Its intended audience is traditional
knowledge researchers and those organizations--government agencies,
co-management bodies, environmental assessment boards, aboriginal
authorities and industry--that require and work with traditional
knowledge.

In addition to research related to Traditional Knowedge, the guide may
be relevant relevant to Use and Occupancy or Traditional Use studies.
Legal professionals may also find the publication useful because it will
help to better understand what constitutes quality research when it
comes to negotiating agreements with governments and resource developers
on behalf of Aboriginal clients.

To download the complete "Conduct of Traditional Knowledge Research" go to:
http://www.wmacns.ca/pdfs/401_ConductOfTraditionalKnowledge_Sept14_fnl_…

For questions or comments, contact:
Peter Armitage
Email: parmitage [at] nl.rogers.com

  1. Newsletter Available
    Ice Bits, Summer 2015
    U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office

The U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office announces availability of the
summer 2015 issue of the Ice Bits newsletter on U.S. Ice Drilling
Program activities. Articles in this issue include:

- Beneficial, User-Identified Upgrades Made to IDDO Small Hot Water
Drill
- IDPO Launches New Course Targeting Professors at Minority-Serving
Institutions
- Acknowledgement of IDPO-IDDO in Publications
- Scientific Field Support
- Equipment Development (Agile Sub-Ice Geological Drill,
Intermediate Depth Drill, Blue Ice Drill-Deep, Winkie Drill)
- Long Range Science and Long Range Drilling Technology Plans Updated
- APECS IDPO Webinar
- Ice Core Working Group Virtual Meeting
- Borehole Logging Working Group Presentation
- Drilling Support to Science Projects

To read the spring 2015 issue of Ice Bits, go to:
http://www.icedrill.org/icebits.

  1. Report and Short Films Available
    Arctic Food Security
    By: Philip Loring and Craig Gerlach

Authors announce the availability of a report and short films on Arctic
Food Security. Published by UAF-affiliated faculty Philip Loring
(Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan) and Craig
Gerlach (Professor at University of Calgary), these resources can be
found at: http://www.sustainablefuturesnorth.org/resources.

The paper, which appears in the September 2015 issue of Arctic,
synthesizes the academic literature on food security research for the
North American Arctic and Subarctic. One of the papers' findings is that
new research suggests that policy and a lack of protection of Indigenous
rights, more than environmental change or the high costs of food and
fuel, are the primary drivers of food insecurity in the rural North.
Loring and Gerlach argue that solutions to northern food insecurity
should focus on improving local peoples' flexibility to respond to
environmental change, and on supporting their right to pursue food
security on their own terms.

In conjunction with this paper, the Sustainable Futures North (SFN)
project has released the "Tied to the Land" film series of four short
films by Alaska filmmaker Sarah Betcher, which showcase how people in
Northwest Alaska are seeking effective ways of responding to rapid
changes in climate, weather and industrial development. Additionally,
SFN has released three fact-sheets on food insecurity in three regions
of the North American North: Bristol Bay and Kotzebue Sound in Alaska,
and Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.

These resources can be all be found on the Sustainable Futures North
project website, at: http://www.sustainablefuturesnorth.org/resources.

  1. Summary Available
    FRAM 2014-2015
    Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
    Nansen Center

The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the
Nansen Center (NERSC) announce the completion of the FRAM 2014-2015
project. A summary of the project is available at:
http://sabvabaa.nersc.no/node/6441.

FRAM-2014/15 was an ice drift station using a medium-sized hovercraft as
logistic and scientific platform operated by a crew of two persons. The
hovercraft was equipped as a scaled-down modern research vessel.
Workspace for geologic and oceanographic work was set up on the ice
separately.

The station was deployed on first year ice from the icebreaker
Polarstern on 30 August 2014, and the voyage concluded on 22 August 2015
with the arrival in Longyearbyen, Norway. The main science objective of
the ice drift was to obtain geologic information which relates the
geologic evolution and the paleoenvironment of the polar continental
margin of Europe prior to about 56 million years ago, now represented by
the Lomonosov Ridge, however, much additional scientific research was
also conducted throughout the duration of the project.

A summary of the project is available at:
http://sabvabaa.nersc.no/node/6441

Additional information about the project can be found at:
http://sabvabaa.nersc.no
http://sabvabaa.nersc.no/node/395

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