December Issue of the Journal "ARCTIC"
Volume 59, Number 4
Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA)
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The Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) announces publication of
the December 2006 issue of the journal "ARCTIC." AINA is a non-profit
membership organization and multi-disciplinary research institute of
the University of Calgary that advances the study of the North American
and circumpolar Arctic through the natural and social sciences, and the
arts and humanities, and acquires, preserves, and disseminates
information on physical, environmental, and social conditions in the
North.
The following papers appear in the December 2006 issue of ARCTIC:
"Painted Wooden Plaques from the MacFarlane Collection: The Earliest
Inuvialuit Graphic Art"
By: David Morrison
"Interspecific Killing of an Arctic Fox by a Red Fox at Prudhoe Bay,
Alaska"
By: Nathan J. Pamperin, Erich H. Follmann, and Bill Petersen
"An Early Collection of the Red Alga Mikamiella ruprechtiana Made by
Carl Merck on the Billings Expedition to Alaska (1785-94)"
By: Michael J. Wynne
"Making Sense of Contaminants: A Case Study of Arviat, Nunavut"
By: Martina Tyrrell
"An Incidence of Multi-Year Sediment Storage on Channel Snowpack in the
Canadian High Arctic"
By: Scott F. Lamoureux, Dana M. McDonald, Jaclyn M.H. Cockburn,
Melissa J. Lafreniere, David M. Atkinson, and Paul Treitz
"New Spruce (Picea spp.) Macrofossils from Yukon Territory: Implications
for Late Pleistocene Refugia in Eastern Beringia"
By: G.D. Zazula, A.M. Telka, C.R. Harington, C.E. Schweger, and R.W. Mathewes
"Cultures in Collision: Traditional Knowledge and Euro-Canadian
Governance Processes in Northern Land-Claim Boards"
By: Graham White
"Exploration History and Mineral Potential of the Central Arctic Zn- Pb
District, Nunavut"
By: Keith Dewing, Robert J. Sharp, and Ted Muraro
"The Gender Gap in Higher Education in Alaska"
By: Judith Kleinfeld and Justin J. Andrews
The issue also contains eight book reviews and an obituary of Joan Ryan
(1932-2005) by Mike Robinson. The InfoNorth section presents essays by
Jennie McLaren and Mark Edwards, the 2006 winners of the Jennifer
Robinson and Lorraine Allison Scholarships, respectively.