April 25, 2003
Dear Colleague:
ARCUS is pleased to announce the winners of the Seventh Annual ARCUS Award
for Arctic Research Excellence. In addition to the four winners, we also
want to recognize eight individuals that received honorable mentions. We
thank all of the competition participants for their submissions, which
reflect the excellence of young researchers working in the Arctic and
the diversity of their research. Fifty-seven papers were submitted to
the competition this year. The list of all students who submitted
papers can be found at http://www.arcus.org/sa/annual_7th.shtml.
The winners, by category, are:
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
Michael N. Weintraub, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology (EEMB),
University of California, Santa Barbara, California
"Interactions Between Carbon and Nitrogen Mineralization and Soil Organic
Matter Chemistry in Arctic Tundra Soils."
PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Sarah Boon, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton,
AB, Canada
"Impact of an Extreme Melt Event on the Hydrology and Runoff of a High
Arctic Glacier."
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Stephanie Irlbacher Fox, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of
Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
"Women's Participation in Self Government Negotiations in the Northwest
Territories, Canada."
LIFE SCIENCES
Emily Jenkins, Department of Veterinary Microbiology, University of
Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
"Geographic Distribution and Seasonal Patterns of Larval Shedding of the
Muscle-Dwelling Nematode, Parelaphostrongylus odocoilei, in Thinhorn Sheep
from Northern North America."
These winning students have been invited to attend the annual
ARCUS-sponsored Arctic Forum in Washington, D.C., April 28-29, 2003 to
present their papers to an audience of arctic researchers, federal agency
personnel, and representatives of government and private organizations
involved in arctic research. Additionally, each winner will receive a
$500 honorarium.
The Honorable Mentions, by category are:
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
Nina Karnovsky, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University
of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
" The Foraging Behavior of Little Auks in a Heterogeneous Environment."
W. Wyatt Oswald, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington,
Seattle , WA, USA
"Holocene Pollen Records from the Central Arctic Foothills, Northern Alaska:
Testing the Role of Substrate in the Response of Tundra to Climate Change."
LIFE SCIENCES
Claude Belzile, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor,
Me, USA
"Colored Dissolved Organic Matter and Dissolved Organic Carbon Exclusion
from Lake Ice: Implications for Irradiance Transmission and Carbon Cycling."
Juha Heikkinen, Environmental Science, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland
"Carbon Dioxide and Methane Dynamics and Annual Carbon Balance in Tundra
Wetland in NE Europe, Russia."
PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Laura Bowling, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
"The Role of Surface Storage in a Low-Gradient Arctic Watershed."
David Burgess, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta,
Edmonton, AB, Canada
"Recent Changes in Areal Extent of the Devon Ice Cap, Nunavut, Canada."
Hans-Peter Marshall, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering,
University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
"Depth-Varying Constitutive Properties Observed in an Isothermal Glacier."
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Elana Wilson, Scott Polar Research Institute/Department of Geography,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
"Gender and Nationalism in Nunavut: A Case Study of the 1997 Gender Parity
Vote."
The announcement and entry information for the Eighth Annual ARCUS
Award for Arctic Research Excellence (2004) will be distributed to the
community in the fall of 2003. We hope that you will look for it and
encourage young researchers to submit papers to the competition.
Timothy Boyd, Oregon State University
Committee Chair
ARCUS Award for Arctic Research Excellence