Date

Multiple Resources Available

  1. Satellite Data Set Released
    NSIDC

  2. Data Set Released
    Nimbus Data Rescue Project
    NSIDC

  3. New Book
    The Meaning of Ice: People and Sea Ice in Three Arctic Communities
    Edited by Shari Fox Gearheard, et al.
    International Polar Institute Press

  4. Fall 2013 Issue of IASOA Observations
    International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere

  5. First Edition of SAON News
    Summer 2013
    Secretariat of the Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks

  6. September 2013 Issue of the Journal ARCTIC
    Volume 66, Number 2
    Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA)

  1. New Data Set Released
    NSIDC

The National Snow and Ice Data Center announces the release of the
"Nimbus Image Dissector Camera System Visible Imagery L1, HDF5
(NmIDCS1H)" data set.

This data set consists of intermittent black-and-white images captured
by the Image Dissector Camera System (IDCS) on board the Nimbus 3
satellite from 23 April 1969 to 21 January 1970.

For information and documentation regarding NmIDCS1H, go to:
http://nsidc.org/data/nmidcs1h/.

To access NmIDCS1H data through the NSIDC Data Pool, go to:
http://nsidc.org/data/data_pool/.

Or, to access NmIDCS1H data through the Reverb search and order
interface go to: http://reverb.echo.nasa.gov/reverb/.

For questions, please contact the NSIDC User Services Office
(nsidc [at] nsidc.org).

  1. Data Set Released
    Nimbus Data Rescue Project
    NSIDC

The National Snow and Ice Data Center announces the release of the first
data set from the Nimbus Data Rescue Project: the Nimbus Advanced
Vidicon Camera System Visible Imagery L1, HDF5 (NmAVCS1H) data set.

This data set consists of black-and-white Advanced Vidicon Camera System
images that were acquired by the Nimbus 1 satellite during August and
September 1964 and by Nimbus 2 from May to August 1966.

For more information regarding NmAVCS1H, go to:
http://nsidc.org/data/nmavcs1h/.

For more information about the Nimbus Data Rescue Project, go to:
http://nsidc.org/data/nimbus.

For further information, news and tips for data users, and recent
articles including "New Life for Old Data: Nimbus Data Rescue Project
Publishes First Data Set," go to:
http://nsidc.org/the-drift/category/articles.

  1. New Book Available
    The Meaning of Ice: People and Sea Ice in Three Arctic Communities
    Edited by Shari Fox Gearheard, et. al.
    International Polar Institute Press

A new book entitled "The Meaning of Ice: People and Sea Ice in Three
Arctic Communities" edited by Shari Fox Gearheard, Lene Kielsen Holm,
Henry Huntington, Joe Mello Leavitt, Andrew R. Mahoney, Margaret Opie,
Toku Oshima, and Joelie Sanguya and published by the International Polar
Institute (IPI) Press is available from the University Press of New
England (UPNE).

This book explores Arctic sea ice as seen and experienced by the Inuit,
Inupiat, and Inughuit and describes the great depth of their knowledge
of sea ice and the critical and complex role it plays in their
relationships with their environment and with one another. Over forty
Inuit, Inupiat, and Inughuit from three different Arctic communities
contributed stories, original artwork, hand-drawn illustrations, maps,
family photos, and recipes to this book. Professional and historical
photographs, children's artwork, and innovative graphics are also
included.

For more information, go to: http://ipipress.blogspot.com/.

To order a copy of the book, go to: http://www.upne.com/0982170397.html.

  1. Fall 2013 Issue of IASOA Observations Available
    International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere

The International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere (IASOA)
announces the availability of the Fall 2013 issue of their newsletter,
'IASOA Observations.' It is available at:
http://tinyurl.com/IASOA-News-Fall-2013.

IASOA was initiated as an International Polar Year (IPY) project to
address key atmospheric science questions through coordinating
atmospheric observing assets at nine pan-arctic observatories. Its
mission is to advance coordinated research objectives from independent
pan-arctic atmospheric observatories.

The Newsletter is intended to provide activity updates at the key arctic
observatories, feature science developments at individual observatories
or highlight cross-site science, provide updates on the IASOA data
portal, and provide insights into ground-based observations at
high-latitudes. Contributions from interested parties are welcome.

To view the Fall 2013 edition of the newsletter, please go to:
http://tinyurl.com/IASOA-News-Fall-2013.

For more information about IASOA, go to:
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/iasoa/.

  1. First Edition of SAON News Available
    Summer 2013
    Secretariat of the Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks

The Secretariat of the Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks (SAON) has
released a first edition of the SAON newsletter. This summer 2013 issue
includes an introduction to SAON, an overview of the ongoing SAON tasks
and other news related to Arctic observing.

To download the newsletter, click on Newsletter at:
http://www.arcticobserving.org/.

For questions or comments, contact:
Volker Rachold
Email: volker.rachold [at] iasc.info

Jan Rene Larsen
Email: jan.rene.larsen [at] amap.no

  1. September 2013 Issue of the Journal ARCTIC Available
    Volume 66, Number 2
    Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA)

The Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) announces publication of
the September 2013 issue of the journal ARCTIC, Volume 66, Number 3.
AINA is a non-profit membership organization and multidisciplinary
research institute of the University of Calgary. Its 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
bi-national corporation in 1945, the Institute's United States
Corporation is housed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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

The following papers appear in the September 2013 issue of ARCTIC:

-Trends in the Offshore Distribution and Relative Abundance of Beaufort
Sea Belugas, 1982-85 vs 2007-09
By: Lois A. Harwood and Michael C.S. Kingsley

-Nearshore Fish Assemblages of the Northeastern Chukchi Sea, Alaska
By: John F. Thedinga, Scott W. Johnson, A. Darcie Neff, Chris A.
Hoffman, and Jacek M. Maselko

-Coping with the Cold: An Ecological Context for the Abundance and
Distribution of Rock Sandpipers during Winter in Upper Cook Inlet,
Alaska
By: Daniel R. Ruthrauff, Robert E. Gill, Jr. and T. Lee Tibbitts

-Attitudes of Nunavut Inuit toward Killer Whales (Orcinus orca)
By: Kristin H. Westdal, Jeff W. Higdon and Steven H. Ferguson

-Kuujjua River Arctic Char: Monitoring Stock Trends Using Catches from
an Under-Ice Subsistence Fishery, Victoria Island, Northwest
Territories, Canada, 1991-2009
By: Lois A. Harwood, Stephen J. Sandstrom, Michael H. Papst and Humfrey
Melling

-Breeding Biology of Atlantic Population Canada Geese in Nunavik,
Northern Quebec
By: Richard C. Cotter, R. John Hughes, Peter May, Paulusi Novalinga,
Jimmy Johannes, Larry J. Hindman and Paul I. Padding

-Fort Conger: A Site of Arctic History in the 21st Century
By: Margaret M. Bertulli, Lyle Dick, Peter C. Dawson and Panik Lynn
Cousins

-Dolphin and Union Caribou Herd Status and Trend
By: Mathieu Dumond and David S. Lee

-A Methodological Model for Exchanging Local and Scientific Climate
Change Knowledge in Northeastern Siberia
By: Susan A. Crate and Alexander N. Fedorov

-Contrasting Arctic and Mainstream Swedish Descriptions of Northern
Sweden: The View from Established Domestic Research
By: E.C.H. Keskitalo, G. Malmberg, K. Westin, U. Wiberg, D.K. Muller and
O. Pettersson

The September issue also contains four book reviews and two obituaries;
one for Richard Harrison Ragle, written by Carl S. Benson and one for
Hans Peter Trettin, by Thomas Frisch.

The InfoNorth section of the September issue features an essay entitled
"The Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL): Sounding
the Atmosphere at 80 degrees North," by Pierre F. Fogal, Lisa M. LeBlanc
and James R. Drummond.

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

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