Date

Multiple Resources Available

  1. December 2009 Issue of the Journal ARCTIC Available
    Arctic Institute of North America

  2. Publication on Polar Law Available

  3. NSIDC Notes Autumn/Winter Issue Available
    National Snow and Ice Data Center

  4. Arctic Stories Interview Collection Available

  5. Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment Report Available
    Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

  6. Northern Notes Autumn/Winter Newsletter Available Online
    International Arctic Social Sciences Association

  1. December 2009 Issue of the Journal ARCTIC Available
    Arctic Institute of North America

The Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) announces publication of
the December 2009 issue of the journal ARCTIC, Volume 62, Number 4. 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.

The following papers appear in the December 2009 issue of ARCTIC:

"Paleoeskimo Demography and Sea-Level History, Kent Peninsula and King
William Island, Central Northwest Passage, Arctic Canada"
By: Arthur S. Dyke and James M. Savelle

"Visualizing Population Dynamics of Alaska's Arctic Communities"
By: Lawrence C. Hamilton and Angela M. Mitiguy

"Foraging Behaviours and Diets of Wolves in the Queen Maud Gulf Bird
Sanctuary, Nunavut, Canada"
By: Nathan Wiebe, Gustaf Samelius, Ray T. Alisauskas, Jason L. Bantle,
Christoffer Bergman, Robert de Carle, Christopher J. Hendrickson, Alain
Lusignan, Kimberly J. Phipps and Justin Pitt

"Polar Bear Distribution and Habitat Association Reflect Long-term
Changes in Fall Sea Ice Conditions in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea"
By: Jeffrey S. Gleason and Karyn D. Rode

"Tolerance to Sand Burial, Trampling, and Drought of Two Subarctic
Coastal Plant Species (Leymus mollis and Trisetum spicatum)"
By: Stephane Boudreau and Julie Faure-Lacroix

"Advancing Landscape Change Research through the Incorporation of
Inupiaq Knowledge"
By: Wendy R. Eisner, Chris J. Cuomo, Kenneth M. Hinkel, Benjamin M.
Jones and Ronald H. Brower, Sr.

"Effects of Climate Change on the Seasonality of Weather for Tourism in
Alaska"
By: Gongmei Yu, Zvi Schwartz and John E. Walsh

"Post-Glacial Isostatic Adjustment and Global Warming in Subarctic
Canada: Implications for Islands of the James Bay Region
By: Leonard J.S. Tsuji, Natalya Gomez, Jerry X. Mitrovica and Roblyn
Kendall

"Local Protest and Resistance to the Rupert Diversion Project, Northern
Quebec"
By: Miriam Atkinson and Monica E. Mulrennan

The December issue contains five book reviews and an obituary for Jimmy
Memorana, written by Thomas G. Smith.

Also included are two InfoNorth essays written by this year's AINA
scholarship winners. Evan Richardson, the 2009 recipient of the Jennifer
Robinson Memorial Scholarship, describes his doctoral research on the
life history and population dynamics of polar bears in western Hudson
Bay. Veterinarian Patricia Curry, the 2009 recipient of the Lorraine
Allison Scholarship, discusses her collaborative research with arctic
communities on monitoring the health of caribou populations.

For information on becoming an AINA member and receiving the journal,
please visit the Institute's website at: http://www.arctic.ucalgary.ca/.

  1. Publication on Polar Law Available

The first ever volume of the Yearbook of Polar Law, a new annual
publication dealing with international law and the polar regions, is
available.

The articles published in Volume 1 cover four broad themes:

- Challenges for the protection of biodiversity and wilderness in
the polar regions;
- Sustainable development and human rights;
- Environmental governance in the polar regions; and
- Emergent and re-emerging jurisdictional issues in the polar
regions.

Volume 1 of the Yearbook of Polar Law contains 23 peer reviewed articles
as well as the opening keynote address by H.E. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson,
at an international symposium held in Iceland in September 2008. The
Yearbook is published by Martinus Nijhoff. Editors-in-Chief of the
Yearbook are Gudmundur Alfredsson and Timo Koivurova. The Yearbook's
Special Editor is David Leary.

For further information on this publication (including the table of
contents) please go to:
http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=34474.

  1. NSIDC Notes Autumn/Winter Issue Available
    National Snow and Ice Data Center

The autumn/winter issue Number 69 of the National Snow and Ice Data
Center (NSIDC) publication is available online. NSIDC Notes is published
quarterly in electronic format, and can be accessed as a PDF file at:
http://nsidc.org/pubs/notes/. Archived versions of the newsletter are
also available at the website.

Selected items in this issue include:

- September's sea ice minimum;
- DVD on Drifting Station Alpha, 1957-58; and
- New products and updates to existing data sets.

For further information, please go to:
http://nsidc.org/pubs/notes/.

  1. Arctic Stories Interview Collection Available

For the past 7 years, a number of arctic researchers have been working
together on a project known as Ocean-Atmosphere-Sea Ice-Snowpack (OASIS,
http://www.oasishome.net/). OASIS is a set of coupled international
projects focusing on understanding the exchange of chemical species
between the atmosphere and the surface in the Arctic, how those
processes impact the composition of the atmosphere, and how those
processes are changing as a result of climate change.

As part of the broader impacts work associated with a National Science
Foundation (NSF) grant to Purdue Professor Paul Shepson in support of
OASIS research, Shepson and his collaborator Peter Lourie, with help
from various contributors, have created a set of "Arctic Stories"
available online at: http://www.arcticstories.net/. Through video
interview, these digital stories capture science in the Barrow area,
connections between science and life in the Arctic, climate change and
the natural environment in the Arctic, and the impacts of climate change
on arctic people and life.

Please enjoy Arctic Stories (http://www.arcticstories.net/) and pass the
link on to teachers, friends of the Arctic, and anyone else who might
enjoy it as well.

For further information, please contact:
Peter Lourie
Email: plourie [at] purdue.edu

  1. Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment Report Available
    Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) has a report
entitled "Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment" (ACCE) available
on their website. It can be downloaded at:
http://www.scar.org/publications/occasionals/acce.html.

Following production of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA)
report in 2005, the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
decided that a southern hemisphere equivalent was required, and set
about producing it. 100 scientists from 13 countries contributed as
authors, and the manuscript was worked up by an editorial team of 9,
headed by John Turner of the British Antarctic Survey. The project
expanded through time to incorporate the past climate dimension,
provided by scientists from SCAR's "Antarctic Climate Evolution"
program, and the biological impacts, provided by scientists from SCAR's
"Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic" program.

The completed report was printed in October 2009. SCAR produced only 500
hard copies, having decided that this ought to be a web-based product
that was readily available at no cost to the entire scientific
community. It was felt that this is the sort of scientific service SCAR
should be providing to the community. Elements of the report have
already been published as scientific papers in Reviews of Geophysics
(January 2009) and will appear in the December issue of the Antarctic
Science Journal. Annual reviews of the science of climate change in the
Antarctic, based on the ongoing work in the report, have been presented
to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings and the associated
Committee on Environmental Protection.

The report is available from the ACCE page of the SCAR website at:
http://www.scar.org/publications/occasionals/acce.html, along with
copies of the press release, and a document detailing the main 10 points
from the report.

For further information, please go to:
http://www.scar.org.

Or contact:
Colin Summerhayes
Email: cps32 [at] cam.ac.uk

  1. Northern Notes Autumn/Winter Newsletter Available Online
    International Arctic Social Sciences Association

The International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA)
Autumn/Winter 2009 issue of the Northern Notes newsletter is now
available at: http://www.svs.is/english/IASSA/IASSA.htm.

Featured articles in this issue include:

- IPY 2007-2008 and Social/Human Sciences: Mission Accomplished?
- Summary of International IPY Data Management Meeting
- International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) Research Priorities
in Human and Social Sciences
- CAVIAR - Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in the Arctic
Regions
- Update on the Arctic Social Indicators Projcet (2006-2011)
- The Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme
- Update on Social Sciences Initiatives within APECS

Also included is information on upcoming conferences, announcements, and
new publications. To access the newsletter, please go to:
http://www.svs.is/english/IASSA/IASSA.htm.