ARCUS Student Award | 4th Annual Award

4th Annual ARCUS Award for Arctic Research Excellence

Submitted by: Carita M. Bergman
Authors: Carita M. Bergman, John M. Fryxell, C. Cormack Gates, and Daniel Fortin
Category: Life Science
Title: Foraging strategies of subarctic wood bison: energy maximizing or time minimizing?
Abstract: Many classical models of ungulate foraging are premised on energy maximization, yet...(continued)
Affiliation: Department of Zoology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Submitted by: Peter Collings
Author: Peter Collings
Category: Social Science
Title: "If you got everything, it's good enough": perspectives on successful aging in a Canadian Inuit community
Abstract: Structured interviews with 38 Inuit in the community of Holman were conducted... (continued)
Affiliation: Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, Unversity Park, Pennsylvania

Submitted by: Michelle Coombs
Authors: Michelle Coombs, John C. Eichelberger, and Malcolm J. Rutherford
Category: Physical Science
Title: Magma storage and mixing conditions for the 1953-68 eruption of Southwest Trident volcano, Katmai National Park, Alaska
Abstract: Between 1953 and 1968, approximately 0.5 km3 of andesite and dacite erupted from a newly formed vent ...(continued)
Affiliation: Alaska Volcano Observatory, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska

Submitted by: Jennifer Y. King
Authors: Jennifer Y. King, William S. Reeburgh, and Shannon K. Regli
Category: Interdisciplinary
Title: Methane emissions and transport by arctic sedges in Alaska: results of a vegetation removal experiment
Abstract: Methane flux and belowground methane profile studies...(continued)
Affiliation: Department of Earth System Science, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California

2000 Competition -- Other SubmissionsLife Science Category

Submitted by: Carita M. Bergman
Authors: Carita M. Bergman, James A. Schaefer, and S. N. Luttich
Title: Caribou movement as a correlated random walk
Affiliation: Department of Zoology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Submitted by: Carita M. Bergman
Author: Carita M. Bergman
Title: Linking foraging constraints to multi-scale habitat selection by free ranging subarctic wood bison
Affiliation: Department of Zoology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Submitted by: Michael A. D. Ferguson
Authors: Michael A. D. Ferguson, Line Gauthier, and François Messier
Title: Winter foraging ecology of a population of arctic tundra caribou after a major range shift
Affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Submitted by: Aimee Genung
Author: Aimee Genung
Title: The effects of phosphorus fertilisation and deprivation on total chlorophyll in Schistidium agassizii, Hygrohypnum spp, and Fontinalis spp. in arctic streams
Affiliation: Central Michigan University, Roseville, Michigan

Submitted by: John C. George
Authors: John C. George, Jeffrey Bada, Judith Zeh, Laura Scott, Stephen E. Brown, Todd O'Hara, and Robert Suydam
Title: Age and growth estimates of bowhead whales (Baleana mysticetus) via aspartic acid racemization
Affiliation: Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska

Submitted by: Robert Hollister
Authors: Robert Hollister and Patrick J. Webber
Title: Biotic validation of small open-top chambers in tundra ecosystems
Affiliation: Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

Submitted by: Stine C. Hovde
Authors: Stine C. Hovde, Ole Thomas Albert, and Einar M. Nilssen
Title: Food and feeding of Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, Walbaum) in the Barents Sea
Affiliation: Marine and Freshwater Biology, Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Submitted by: Claudia Ihl
Authors: Claudia Ihl and David R. Klein
Title: Comparative habitat and diet seletion of muskoxen and reindeer: implications for competition
Affiliation: Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska

Submitted by: Karen Junge
Authors: Karen Junge, Johannes F. Imhoff, James T. Staley, and Jody W. Deming
Title: Testing the bacterial enumeration anomaly in arctic sea ice
Affiliation: School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Submitted by: Thomas Mock
Authors: Thomas Mock and Rolf Gradinger
Title: Determination of arctic ice algae production with a new in situ incubation technique
Affiliation: Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

Submitted by: Aaron E. Putnam
Author: Aaron E. Putnam
Title: Ice algae: an indicator of climate change
Affiliation: Maine School for Science and Mathematics, Limestone, Maine

Submitted by: Courtney D. Sandau
Authors: Courtney D. Sandau, Pierre Ayotte, Eric Dewailly, Jason Duffe, and Ross J. Norstrom
Title: Analysis of hydroxylated metabolites of PCBs and other chlorinated phenolic compounds in whole blood from Canadian Inuit
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Submitted by: Courtney D. Sandau
Authors: Courtney D. Sandau, Ilonka A. T. M. Meerts, Robert J. Letcher, Alan J. McAlees, Brock Chittim, Abraham Brouwer, and Ross J. Norstrom
Title: Identification of 4-hydroxy-heptachlorostyrene in polar bear plasma and its binding affinity to transthyretin: a metabolite of octachlorostyrene?
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Submitted by: Karen Stone
Authors: Karen Stone and Joseph A. Cook
Title: Effects of the Bering Land Bridge on the historical biogeography of a holarctic genus, Martes
Affiliation: Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska

Submitted by: Amy Zacheis
Authors: Amy Zacheis, Jerry W. Hupp, and Roger W. Ruess
Title: Effects of migratory geese on plant communities of an Alaska salt marsh
Affiliation: Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska

Physical Science Category

 
Submitted by: Lesleigh Anderson
Author: Lesleigh Anderson
Title: Holocene paleoclimate from oxygen isotope ratios in lake sediments, central Brooks Range, Alaska
Affiliation: Department of Geosciences, Morrill Science Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

Submitted by: Matthew Arsenault
Authors: Matthew Arsenault and Jack E. Dibb
Title: Nitrate and nitrite measurements in surface snow and snow pits from Summit, Greenland: evidence of photochemistry?
Affiliation: Department of Earth Sciences, Climate Change Research Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire

Submitted by: Wolfgang Dorn
Authors: Wolfgang Dorn, Klaus Dethloff, Annette Rinke, and Michael Botzet
Title: Distinct circulation states of the arctic atmosphere induced by natural climate variability
Affiliation: Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany

Submitted by: Sheldon Drobot
Author: Sheldon Drobot
Title: Determination of snow melt onset dates over arctic sea ice using SMMR and SSM/I data
Affiliation: Department of Geosciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska

Submitted by: Michael Pisaric
Author: Michael Pisaric, Glen M. MacDonald, Les C. Cwynar, and Andrei A. Velichko
Title: Modern pollen and stomate spectra from lake sediments from north-central Siberia: their use in interpreting late-quaternary fossil pollen assemblages
Affiliation: Department of Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Submitted by: Stephanie Powell
Author: Stephanie Powell
Title: Persistent organic pollutants in the Canadian Arctic: the need for an effective international regime
Affiliation: Department of International Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada

Submitted by: Ann Louise Sumner
Authors: Ann Louise Sumner and Paul B. Shepson
Title: Snowpack production of formaldehyde and its effect on the arctic troposphere
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Social Science Category


Submitted by: Lisa M. Frink
Author: Lisa M. Frink
Title: Fish tales: women and decision-making in western Alaska
Affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

Submitted by: Igor Osipov
Author: Igor Osipov
Title: Indigenous sovereignty and governmental policies: Native land title in circumpolar perspective
Affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska

Submitted by: Joseph Spaeder
Author: Joseph Spaeder
Title: Co-management in a landscape of resistance: the political ecology of wildlife management in western Alaska
Affiliation: Graduate Group in Ecology, University of California-Davis, Davis, California

Interdisciplinary Category

Submitted by: Valerie A. Barber
Authors: Valerie A. Barber and Bruce P. Finney
Title: Late quaternary paleoclimatic reconstructions for interior Alaska based on paleolake-level data and hydrologic models
Affiliation: Institute of Marine Science and Forestry Sciences, Unversity of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska

Submitted by: Julie A. Esdale
Author: Julie A. Esdale
Title: Studies in periglacial geoarchaeology at the Dog Creek Site, northern Yukon
Affiliation: Department of Anthropology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Submitted by: Fidan Göktas
Author: Fidan Göktas
Title: Ice thickness, bedrock topography and internal layers in ice sheet in northern Greenland
Affiliation: Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

Submitted by: Maggie Isbell
Authors: Maggie Isbell, Janet Ricker, Mary Ellen Gordian, and Lawrence K. Duffy
Title: Use of biomarkers in an idoor air study: lack of correlation between aromatic VOCs with respective urinary biomarkers
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska

Submitted by: Stephanie Powell
Author: Stephanie Powell
Title: Environmental security of the Canadian Arctic: case study of long-range transboundary pollution as a cause, consequence or contribution of conflict?
Affiliation: Department of International Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada