Date

Multiple Resources Available

  1. Journal Available
    2014 Polar Geography, Issues 1-4

  2. News Article Available
    Arctic Museum Discovers Century-Old Record of Ship's Sinking

  3. Antarctic Satellite Mosaics Available
    Polar Data Catalogue

  1. Journal Available
    2014 Polar Geography, Issues 1-4

All four of the 2014 issues of Polar Geography are now available online.
Many of the articles are open access. Links to each issue as well as
brief descriptions of their contents are as follows:

Issue 1 - http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tpog20/37/1#.VJN67f8NIK0
Special issue on local and traditional knowledge and data management in
the Arctic.

Issue 2 - http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tpog20/37/2#.VJN6uP8NIK0
Articles on Marine Accessibility along Russia's Northern Sea Route, an
early 18th century vision of a Northeast Passage, Making Russian Arctic
Islands Accessible for Tourists, the fertility of indigenous Sami in
Jokkmokk, and decentralization in Nunavut.

Issue 3 - http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tpog20/37/3#.VJN61v8NIK0
Articles on urban sustainability in the Russian Arctic, Iceland's view
of the rise of Asia in the Arctic, use of traditional knowledge in the
governance of reindeer husbandry in Finnmark, and Arctic national
identity in Norway.

Issue 4 - http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tpog20/37/4#.VJN7G_8NIK0
Articles on media coverage of Kiruna Arctic Council meeting, commercial
Arctic shipping through the Northeast Passage, and social stratification
of the Inuit of Nunavik.

  1. News Article Available
    Arctic Museum Discovers Century-Old Record of Ship's Sinking

The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum has identified the chart Robert
Bartlett used to document the drift and sinking of the Karluk 100 years
ago. An article describing the details of the discovery is available at:
http://tinyurl.com/Karluk-Chart.

The Karluk was one of the ships involved in Stefansson's Canadian Arctic
Expedition. When the Karluk was caught in the ice off the North Alaska
coast in September 1914, Stefansson took a party to shore to hunt for
fresh meat, leaving Robert Bartlett, captain of the vessel, in charge.
The ice moved north and west, carrying the Karluk, Bartlett, 19
scientists and crew, and 5 Inupiat away from the coast and into the
Arctic Ocean. Stefansson assumed the vessel was crushed in the ice and
continued his expedition making other arrangements.

To read the full article, please go to:
http://tinyurl.com/Karluk-Chart.

  1. Antarctic Satellite Mosaics Available
    Polar Data Catalogue

The Polar Data Catalogue at the University of Waterloo has released the
2008 Antarctica mosaics. They can be accessed at:
https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch.

Full-continent mosaics at 100 m, 200 m, 400 m, and 800 m resolutions are
available at 3 different bit levels (8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit) and HH
and HV polarizations. In addition, gridded 16-bit, HH and HV tile
products covering sub-sections of the continent are available at 25
meter resolution.

Thanks to a partnership between the Canadian Space Agency (CSA),
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), the prime contractor for
the RADARSAT-2 program, and the Canadian Cryospheric Information Network
(CCIN), the mosaic and tile images are free and fully accessible to the
academic world and the public.

Using Synthetic Aperture Radar with multiple polarization modes aboard
the RADARSAT-2 satellite, the CSA collected more than 3,150 images of
the continent in the autumn of 2008, comprising a single pole-to-coast
map covering all of Antarctica. This is the first such map of the area
since RADARSAT-1 created one in 1997.

This mosaic map of the Antarctic is the latest addition to the Polar
Data Catalogue, and can be accessed at: https://www.polardata.ca.

For further information, please contact:
Julie Friddell
Email: julie.friddell [at] uwaterloo.ca

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