Date

Multiple Resources Available

  1. Newsletter Available
    The Towline
    North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management

  2. Book Set and CD-ROM Available
    Hydrocarbon Contaminants in Freezing Ground and Permafrost Terrain
    By: Thomas L. White

  1. Newsletter Available
    The Towline
    North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management

The Fall 2010 newsletter of the North Slope Borough Department of
Wildlife Management is now available online. To view the most recent
edition, please click on the 'Fall 2010' link at:
http://www.north-slope.org/departments/wildlife/dwm_newsletters.php.

The newsletter provides information on current studies, research, and
other happenings within the North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife
Management. The purpose is to keep the public informed and to provide
contact information for subsistence hunters and concerned residents of
the North Slope.

For further information on the organization, please go to:
http://www.north-slope.org/departments/wildlife/.

To view the newsletter, please click on the 'Fall 2010' link at:
http://www.north-slope.org/departments/wildlife/dwm_newsletters.php.

  1. Book Set and CD-ROM Available
    Hydrocarbon Contaminants in Freezing Ground and Permafrost Terrain
    By: Thomas L. White

A twelve-volume book set and CD-ROM entitled "Hydrocarbon Contaminants
in Freezing Ground and Permafrost Terrain" is now available. It is
authored by permafrost scientist Thomas L. White of Permafrost
Environmental Consulting, a company devoted to cold regions research.

Developing arctic oil and gas reserves increases the risk of hydrocarbon
spills, and the wide range of hydrocarbon products (each with its own
mobility characteristic and physical and chemical behavior in
permafrost-affected soils and sediments) presents a challenge when
developing protocols for arctic hydrocarbon clean up. Governments, First
Nations, environmental agencies, and oil and gas companies are
developing strategies to contain hydrocarbon spills and minimize damage
to the Arctic's permafrost terrain; however, assessment data is not
readily available. At the same time, governments and regulatory bodies
are charged with filling information gaps, such as the long-term
mobility and residency of hydrocarbon contaminants on and in a wide
range of arctic and Antarctic soils.

This environmental engineering resource helps to fill these gaps. It
includes a database of contaminated arctic soils that provides engineers
and geoscientists in universities, research institutions, corporations,
governments, and regulatory bodies with the tools necessary to carry out
in-depth examination of a wide range of immiscible hydrocarbon
contaminants in freezing soils and permafrost. "Hydrocarbon Contaminants
in Freezing Ground and Permafrost Terrain" provides users with:

- The thermodynamic properties of arctic and Antarctic
permafrost-affected soils;
- Hydrocarbon transport modeling for a wide range of arctic soils;
- The nature of hydrocarbon contaminant hydrology with case studies
for assessment;
- Strategies for contaminated site management; and
- Hydrocarbon contaminants beneath arctic spill sites, oil and gas
facilities, sump sites, military sites, landfills, and impoundments
in permafrost terrain.

For further information, please contact:
Thomas L. White
Email: white [at] permafrost.ca
Phone: 613-746-4422