Date

Multiple Publication Announcements

  1. New Book Available
    Science on Ice: Four Polar Expeditions
    By: Chris Linder
    University of Chicago Press

  2. December 2011 Issue of the Journal ARCTIC Available
    Volume 64, Number 4
    Arctic Institute of North America

  3. Special Article Cluster Available
    Vulnerable Populations in the Arctic
    Global Health Action Journal

  4. New Book Available
    The Basics of Sami Pedagogy
    Lapland University Press

  5. 2011 Issues Available
    Volume 34
    Polar Geography

  1. New Book Available
    Science on Ice: Four Polar Expeditions
    By: Chris Linder
    University of Chicago Press

A new book entitled "Science on Ice: Four Polar Expeditions" is
available from the University of Chicago Press. Written by Chris Linder,
an oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and an
award-winning photographer, 'Science on Ice' shows how polar science has
changed over the past century.

The text chronicles four polar expeditions in an illustrated volume: to
a teeming colony of Adelie penguins, through the icy waters of the
Bering Sea in spring, beneath the pack ice of the eastern Arctic Ocean,
and over the lake-studded surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Each trip
finds Linder teamed up with a prominent science journalist, and together
their words and pictures reveal the day-to-day details of how science
actually gets done at the poles. The images include polar landscapes and
close-up shots of scientists working in the field. 'Science on Ice'
takes readers to the farthest reaches of the planet to show them the
exciting and inspiring aspects of polar science.

For further information or to order, please go to:
http://www.scienceonice.com.

  1. December 2011 Issue of the Journal ARCTIC Available
    Volume 64, Number 4
    Arctic Institute of North America

The Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) announces publication of
the December 2011 issue of the journal ARCTIC, Volume 64, 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.

The following papers appear in the December 2011 issue of ARCTIC:

- An Arctic Execution: Private Charles B. Henry of the United States
Lady Franklin Bay Expedition 1881-84, by Glenn M. Stein
- Over-Winter Oceanographic Profiles in Jones Sound, Canadian Arctic
Archipelago, November 1961--June 1962: Temperature, Salinity,
Oxygen, and Nutrients by Spencer Apollonio and David W. Townsend
- Lemming-Food Plant Interactions, Density Effects, and Cyclic
Dynamics on the Siberian Tundra by Sam Erlinge, Dennis Hasselquist,
Goran Hogstedt, Tarald Seldal, Peter Frodin, and Mikael Svensson
- History of Polar Bears as Summer Residents on the St. Matthew
Islands, Bering Sea by David R. Klein and Art Sowls
- Integrating Traditional and Scientific Knowledge through
Collaborative Natural Science Field Research: Identifying Elements
for Success by Henry P. Huntington, Shari Gearheard, Andrew R.
Mahoney, and Anne K. Salomon
- Radial-Growth Response of Forest-Tundra Trees to Climate in the
Western Hudson Bay Lowlands, by Steven D. Mamet and G. Peter Kershaw
- Toponymy of Herschel Island (Qikiqtaryuk), Western Arctic Coast,
Canada by C.R. Burn and John B. Hattendorf
- Sea-Ice Distribution in the Bering and Chukchi Seas: Information
from Historical Whaleships' Logbooks and Journals by Andrew R.
Mahoney, John R. Bockstoce, Daniel B. Botkin, Hajo Eicken, and
Robert A. Nisbet
- Observations of Cannibalism by Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) on
Summer and Autumn Sea Ice at Svalbard, Norway by Ian Stirling and
Jenny E. Ross
- Zooplankton Community Structure in Arctic Ponds: Shifts Related to
Pond Size by W. John O'Brien and Chris Luecke

The December 2011 issue also contains six book reviews and two InfoNorth
essays written by this year's recipients of two memorial scholarships
administered by the Arctic Institute of North America. Kyle Elliott, a
doctoral student in Biological Sciences at University of Manitoba and
the winner of the 2011 Jennifer Robinson Memorial Scholarship, describes
his study of aging in two species of long-lived seabirds. Naomi Jane
Harms, a doctoral candidate in Veterinary Pathology at the University of
Saskatchewan and winner of the 2011 Lorraine Allison Memorial
Scholarship, discusses her research on avian cholera reservoirs and
origins and the ecology of the disease in common eider populations in
the eastern Canadian Arctic.

For information on becoming an AINA member and receiving the journal,
please visit the Institute's website at: http://www.arctic.ucalgary.ca/.
Members have the options of receiving ARCTIC in print, online, or both
in print and online.

  1. Special Article Cluster Available
    Vulnerable Populations in the Arctic
    Global Health Action Journal

'Vulnerable Populations in the Arctic' is the topic of a special cluster
of articles published in the December issue of the open access journal
Global Health Action.

This volume is a compilation of research-based evidence that highlights
the effects of climate change on human health and living conditions in
the arctic region. While emphasizing the need for more research on the
subject, it also discusses what can and should be done to strengthen the
capacities of societies to manage and overcome disturbances.

The cluster consists of 15 articles, guest edited by Professor Birgitta
Evengard.

All articles are freely available at:
http://www.globalhealthaction.net.

The articles can also be downloaded as a PDF, at:
http://www.globalhealthaction.net/index.php/gha/article/view/14828/16644.

  1. New Book Available
    The Basics of Sami Pedagogy
    Lapland University Press

A new book entitled "The Basics of Sami Pedagogy" is a textbook of Sami
pedagogy now available from Lapland University Press. It is published in
five languages: in North Sami, Finnish, English, Swedish, and Russian.

The book describes the history, present special characteristics, and
challenges of Sami education and upbringing, and contemplates the
possibilities of developing them together with practical solutions. The
purpose of the book is to support the Sami teachers' role and further
the realization of Sami education based on its own premises.

The Sami are an indigenous people controlled by several international
and national instruments. Approximately 100,000 Sami live in four
countries: Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Russia. The book is intended for
anyone who is interested in Saminess, pedagogy, and Indigenous cultures.
A special target group is teachers and students in the fields of
multiculturalism and multilingualism as well as Sami culture and Sami
languages.

For further information, please contact:
Pigga Keskitalo
Email: pigga.keskitalo [at] gmail.com
Phone: +358 40-419-7175

Kaarina Maatta
Email: kaarina.maatta [at] ulapland.fi
Phone: +358 400-696-480

  1. 2011 Issues Available
    Volume 34
    Polar Geography

Polar Geography announces that Issues 1-3 of Volume 34 (2011) are
available; Issue 4 is forthcoming. Polar Geography is a quarterly
publication that offers a venue for scholarly research on the physical,
human, and human-environmental aspects of the polar regions. The journal
seeks to address the interplay of the natural systems; the complex
historical, political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, and security
issues; and the interchange amongst them. The journal also does book
reviews of the most recent scholarship and policy documents in polar
geography. The following titles are highlights in the 2011 publications:

Issue 1-2

- Arctic Observing Network Social Indicators Project: Overview by
Jack Kruse, Marie Lowe, Sharman Haley, Ginny Fay, Larry Hamilton,
and Matthew Berman
- Developing an Arctic Subsistence Observation System by Jack Kruse
- Observing Trends and Assessing Data for Arctic Mining by Sharman
Haley, Matthew Klick, Nick Szymoniak, and Andrew Crow
- Social Indicators for Arctic Tourism: Observing Trends and
Assessing Data by Ginny Fay and Anna Karlsdottir
- Arctic Observing Network Social Indicators and Northern
Commercial Fisheries by Marie Lowe
- Linking Pan-Arctic Human and Physical Data by Lawrence C. Hamilton
and Richard B. Lammers
- Next Steps Toward an Arctic Human Dimensions Observing System by
Matthew D. Berman

Issue 3

- Contours, Contrasts, and Contradictions of the Arctic Internet by
Barney Warf
- In Search of Balance: Russia and the EU in the North by Jussi
Laine
- Space and Timing: Why was the Barents Sea Delimitation Dispute
Resolved in 2010? by Arild Moe, Daniel Fjaertoft, and Indra
Overland

Issue 4 (forthcoming)

- Solid Water--Past, Present, and Future: A Review of the Frozen
Water Resources of the World by Roger G. Barry
- Reindeer Herders in the Timan-Pechora Oil Province of Northwest
Russia: An Assessment of Interacting Environmental, Social and
Legal Challenges by W.K. Dallmann, V.V. Peskov, O.A. Murashko, and
E. Khmeleva,
- Making Wilderness: Tourism and the History of the Wilderness Idea
in Iceland by Anna Saeporsdottir, Michael Hall, and Jarkko Saarinen
- Reclaiming Indigenous Seascapes. Sami Place Names in Norwegian Sea
Charts by Camilla Brattland and Steinar Nilsen
- Oil Spill Emergency Response in Norway: Coordinating
Interorganizational Complexity by Maria Ivanova

Information about the journal can be found at:
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tpog20/current.

Manuscripts submissions can be made at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tpog.

For questions or to submit ideas, please contact:
Timothy Heleniak
Email: heleniak [at] umd.edu