ARCUS Student Award | 3rd Annual Award

3rd Annual ARCUS Award for Arctic Research Excellence

Winners of the 1999 Award

Submitted by: Gilles Arfeuille
Author: Gilles Arfeuille and Lawrence A. Mysak
Title: Simulation of the interannual variability of the wind driven Arctic sea ice cover during 1958-1998
Category: Physical Science
Abstract: Simulation of the interannual variability of the wind driven Arctic sea ice cover during 1958-1998... (continues)
Affiliation: Centre for Cimate and Global Change Research, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Submitted by: Kimberlee B. Beckmen
Authors: Kimberlee B. Beckmen, Gina M. Ylitalo, Rodney G. Towell, Margaret M. Krahn, Todd M. O'Hara, and John E. Blake
Title: Factors affecting organochlorine contaminant concentrations in milk and blood of northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) dams and pups from St. George Island, Alaska
Category Life Science
Abstract: Levels of organochlorine contaminants in blood of northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) pups... (continues)
Affiliation: Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska

Submitted by: Kerrie Ann Shannon
Authors: Kerrie Ann Shannon
Title: An examination of traditional knowledge: the case of the Inuit sled dog
Category Social Science
Abstract: Thispaper suggests why traditional knowledge is relevant for examining the social and cultural importance... (continues)
Affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

Submitted by: NikolayI. Shiklomanov
Authors: N. I. Shiklomanov and F. E. Nelson
Title: Analytic representation of the active layer thickness field, Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska
Category Interdisciplinary
Abstract: The initial response of permafrost to global warming could be an increase in active layer thickness... (continues)
Affiliation: Department ofGeography, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA

1999 Competition -- Other Submissions
Posted alphabetically by last name of the submitter.

Submitted by: André Bourcier
Authors: André Bourcier
Title: Language planning for Gwich'in and Inuvialuit Communities
Category Social Science
Affiliation: Langues et linguistique, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Submitted by: Alexis Bunten
Authors: AlexisBunten
Title: Contemporary Tlingit life in southeast Alaska
Category Social Science
Affiliation: Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

Submitted by: Neil Blair Christensen
Authors: Neil Blair Christensen
Title: Inuit in cyberspace: practising and constructing computer-mediated space
Category Social Science
Affiliation: Department of Eskimology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Submitted by: Lars Krutak
Authors: Lars Krutak
Title: Many stitches for life: tattooing in the Arctic
Category Social Science
Affiliation: Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Pembroke College, Cambridge, UK

Submitted by: Terri Lacourse
Authors: Terri Lacourse and K. Gajewski
Title: Late Quaternary vegetation history of Sulphur Lake, southwest Yukon Territory, Canada
Category Physical Science
Affiliation: Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Submitted by: Arthur L. Mason
Authors: Arthur L. Mason
Title: Remodeling citizenship: a move toward neoliberalism in the North
Category Social Science
Affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

Submitted by: W. Wyatt Oswald
Authors: W. Wyatt Oswald, Linda B. Brubaker, and Patricia M. Anderson
Title: Late Quaternary vegetational history of the Howard Pass Area, Northwestern Alaska
Category Interdiciplinary
Affiliation: Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

Submitted by: Michael F. J. Pisaric
Authors: Michael F. J. Pisaric, Glen M. MacDonald, Andrei A. Velichko, and Les C. Cwynar
Title: The late-glacial and post-glacial vegetation history of the northwestern limits of Beringia based on pollen, stomate and tree stump evidence
Category Physical Science
Affiliation: Geography Department, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Submitted by: Ignatius G. Rigor
Authors: Ignatius G. Rigor
Title: Variations in surface air temperature over the Arctic Ocean 1979-1997
Category Physical Science
Affiliation: Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

Submitted by: Todd Sformo
Authors: Todd Sformo
Title: Uniting Iñupiaq culture and western education in Barrow, Alaska
Category Social Science
Affiliation: Ilisagvik College, Barrow, Alaska and Biology and Wildlife Department, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA

Submitted by: L. Micaela Smith
Authors: L. Micaela Smith
Title: Sediment characteristics in iceberg dominated fjords, Kangerlussuaq region, East Greenland
Category Physical Science
Affiliation: Department of Geological Sciences and INSTARR, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Submitted by: Raphaela Stimmelmeyer
Authors: R. Stimmelmeyer and R. G. White
Title: Photoperiod associated changes in serum insulin levels in reindeer
Category Life Science
Affiliation: Biology and Wildlife Department, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA

Submitted by: Martin Thibault
Authors: Martin Thibault
Title: Autonomy as an integrative process in a native community. Theoretical definitions and preliminary remarks.
Category Social Science
Affiliation: Sociology and GETIC, Université Laval, Québec, Canada