Multiple Newsletters Available
SCAR Newsletter: Issue 25, December 2010
Scientific Committee on Antarctic ResearchNorthern Notes Fall/Winter 2010 Newsletter Available Online
International Arctic Social Sciences AssociationAPECS Newsletter: December 2010
Association of Polar Early Career ScientistsDecember 2010 Issue of the Journal ARCTIC
Arctic Institute of North America
- SCAR Newsletter: Issue 25, December 2010
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) announces that
Issue 25 (December 2010) of the SCAR Newsletter is available at:
http://www.scar.org/news/newsletters/issues2010/dec10.html. This issue
of the newsletter includes:
- GBIF grant awarded for development of Nodes Portal Toolkit;
- SCAR Membership;
- SCAR Updates its Logo; and
- Several articles on Antarctic Science News and Other Polar News
and Announcements.
To view the newsletter, please go to:
http://www.scar.org/news/newsletters/issues2010/dec10.html.
- Northern Notes Fall/Winter 2010 Newsletter Available Online
International Arctic Social Sciences Association
The International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) Fall/Winter
2010 issue of the Northern Notes newsletter is now available. Download
the newsletter by going to the following PDF link:
http://www.iassa.org/images/stories/Northern_Notes_No_34.pdf.
Featured articles in this issue include:
- Our Movement to Retire the Term "Human Dimension" from the Arctic
Science Vocabulary
- Introducing the "Natural Dimension" into Arctic Humanities
Research
- What is the SWIPA Project and Where Are We Now?
- Founding Workshop of the Human and Social System Working Group of
IASC
- New Research on Russian Arctic Natural Gas Development
- Shipping Pollution in the Alaska Arctic
Also included are letters from the IASSA Council and Secretariat,
updates on ICASS VII, and various news items regarding available
resources and upcoming conferences.
Download the newsletter by going to the following PDF link:
http://www.iassa.org/images/stories/Northern_Notes_No_34.pdf.
- APECS Newsletter: December 2010
Association of Polar Early Career Scientists
The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) is welcoming
the end of 2010 with another issue of their newsletter. The newsletter
includes information about projects created over the past month and news
about the programs and activities planned for the future. The December
2010 issue of the APECS Newsletter is available at:
http://apecs.is/newsletter-archive/2400-december-2010-newsletter.
Contents include a Message from the Director entitled "International
Centre for Reindeer Husbandry" as well as articles in each of the
following sections:
- APECS News and Updates
- Meetings and Workshops
- Partner News
- Career Development Webinars
- Virtual Poster Session
- Jobs and Opportunities
- New Members
To download the newsletter, please go to:
http://apecs.is/newsletter-archive/2400-december-2010-newsletter.
For further information, please email:
apecsinfo [at] gmail.com.
- December 2010 Issue of the Journal ARCTIC
Arctic Institute of North America
The Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) announces publication of
the December 2010 issue of the journal ARCTIC, Volume 63, 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.
Please note that beginning in 2011, members have the option of
receiving ARCTIC in print, online, or both in print and online. The
following papers appear in the December 2010 issue of ARCTIC:
"History of an Under-Ice Subsistence Fishery for Arctic Cisco and Least
Cisco in the Colville River, Alaska"
By: Lawrence L. Moulton, Brent Seavey, and Jerry Pausanna
"Temporal and Dietary Reconstruction of Past Aleut Populations: Stable-
and Radio-Isotope Evidence Revisited"
By: Joan Brenner Coltrain
"Our Amazing Visitors: Catherine Cartwright's Account of Labrador Inuit
in England"
By: M. Stopp and G. Mitchell
"Sea Ice and Migration of the Dolphin and Union Caribou Herd in the
Canadian Arctic: An Uncertain Future"
By: Kim G. Poole, Anne Gunn, Brent R. Patterson, and Mathieu Dumond
"Permafrost and Peatland Evolution in the Northern Hudson Bay Lowland,
Manitoba"
By: Larry D. Dyke and Wendy E. Sladen
"Long-term Trends of Persistent Organochlorine Pollutants, Occupancy and
Reproductive Success in Peregrine Falcons (Falco peregrinus tundrius)
Breeding near Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada"
By: Alastair Franke, Mike Setterington, Gordon Court, and Detlef
Birkholz
"Distribution and Community Characteristics of Staging Shorebirds on the
Northern Coast of Alaska"
By: Audrey R. Taylor, Richard B. Lanctot, Abby N. Powell, Falk
Huettmann, Debora A. Nigro, and Steven J. Kendall
"Glaucous Gull Predation on Dovekies: Three New Hunting Methods"
By: Dariusz Jakubas and Katarzyna Wojczulanis-Jakubas
"First Confirmed Record of Grey Seals in Greenland"
By: Aqqalu Rosing-Asvid, Jonas Teilmann, Rune Dietz, and Morten Tange
Olsen
In addition to the articles listed above, the December 2010 issue
contains six book reviews, as well as three obituaries: Colin Bruce
Bradley Bull, by Gerald Holdsworth; Erich H. Follmann, by Carl S.
Benson; and Bertha Allen, by Denise M. Kurszewski. Also, the scholarship
winners for 2010, Carissa D. Brown (Jennifer Robinson Memorial
Scholarship) and Jennie A. Knopp (Lorraine Allison Scholarship),
introduce ARCTIC readers to their research in the December 2010
InfoNorth section.
For information on becoming an AINA member and receiving the journal,
please visit the Institute's website at: http://www.arctic.ucalgary.ca/.