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Multiple Publications Available

  1. Aleut Identities: Tradition and Modernity in an Indigenous Fishery
    By: Katherine Reedy-Maschner
    McGill-Queen's University Press

  2. Radioactivity and Pollution in the Nordic Seas and Arctic Region:
    Observations, Modelling and Simulations
    By: Ola M. Johannessen, et. al.
    Springer-Praxis Publishing

  3. The Changing Arctic Landscape
    By: Ken Tape
    University of Alaska Press

  4. Field Guide to Common Marine Fishes and Invertebrates of Alaska
    By: Susan C. Byersdorfer and Leslie J. Watson
    Alaska Sea Grant

  1. Aleut Identities: Tradition and Modernity in an Indigenous Fishery
    By: Katherine Reedy-Maschner
    McGill-Queen's University Press

Anthropologists looking at the traditional practices of the indigenous
peoples of the Arctic from a western perspective have often presented
them as rigid and unchanging. Presenting a decade of ethnographic
research on the Eastern Aleut of the western Alaska Peninsula and
Eastern Aleutian Islands, Katherine Reedy-Maschner shows that
'traditional' can denote many things and can expand to include full
participation in a modern commercial fishing economy and in the global
politics of the volatile fishing industry.

The first Aleut ethnography in over three decades, Aleut Identities
provides a contemporary view of indigenous Alaskans and is the first
major work to emphasize the importance of commercial labor and economies
to maintain traditional means of survival. Examining the ways in which
social relations and the status formation are affected by environmental
concerns, government policies, and market forces, the author highlights
how communities have responded to worldwide pressures. An informative
work that challenges conventional notions of "traditional," Aleut
Identities demonstrates possible methods by which indigenous communities
can maintain and adapt their identity in the face of unrelenting change.

For further information, please go to:
http://mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=2450.

  1. Radioactivity and Pollution in the Nordic Seas and Arctic Region:
    Observations, Modelling and Simulations
    By: Ola M. Johannessen, et. al.
    Springer-Praxis Publishing

This book describes a new tool called the Generic Model System for
simulations and assessment of potential radioactive spreading in the
arctic regions, through rivers, estuaries, regional seas, and the arctic
and Atlantic basin. It considers the present and future potential for
spreading of radionuclear pollution from sources such as the major
Russian processing plants through Siberian rivers as well as European
sources such as the UK Sellafield plant.

The book provides support for decision-making involving risk prevention,
forecasting and readiness for probable crises, alerting and detection,
relief and mitigation, and damage assessment. The book combines the
expertise of professionals from the radionuclear and climate-change
sciences.

For further information, please click on the 'Book published about
radioactivity in the Arctic and Nordic Seas' link at:
http://www.nersc.no/main/index2.php.

  1. The Changing Arctic Landscape
    By: Ken Tape
    University of Alaska Press

Though it's generally understood that any landscape changes over time,
particularly as the number of people it supports increases, these
changes occur over such a span of time that they can go more or less
unnoticed. With this book, photographer Ken Tape sets changes in the
landscape in stark relief, pairing decades-old photos of the arctic
landscape of Alaska with photos of the same scenes taken in the present.

The resulting volume is a stunning reminder of inexorable change;
divided into sections on vegetation, permafrost, and glaciers, the
images show the startling effects of climate change. In addition, each
section presents a short biography of a pioneering scientist who was
instrumental in both obtaining the antique photographs and advancing the
study of arctic ecosystems, as well as interviews with scientists who
have spent decades working in Alaska for the United States Geological
Survey. The Changing Arctic Landscape is a profile of
transformation--complex and not yet fully understood.

For further information, please go to:
http://www.uaf.edu/uapress/browse/detail/index.xml?id=386.

  1. Field Guide to Common Marine Fishes and Invertebrates of Alaska
    By: Susan C. Byersdorfer and Leslie J. Watson
    Alaska Sea Grant

With color photographs and descriptions of more than 400 marine species,
this guide makes it easy to identify common Alaska fish and
invertebrates. The waterproof book is valuable for at-sea biologists and
technicians doing fisheries surveys, and also is useful to fishers,
teachers, and anyone who wants to know what they've caught or what an
animal looks like. The primary geographic range is the eastern Bering
Sea, central Aleutian Islands, and western and central Gulf of Alaska,
and also includes waters north of Norton Sound and in southeastern
Alaska. As research biologists at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game
in Kodiak, authors Byersdorfer and Watson have studied Alaska biota for
several decades.

For further information, please go to:
http://seagrant.uaf.edu/bookstore/pubs/SG-ED-67.html.