ARCUS Student Award | 5th Annual Award

5th Annual ARCUS Award for Arctic Research Excellence

Winners of the 2001 Award

Submitted by: Tim Karels
Authors: Tim Karels and Rudy Boonstra
Category: Life Science
Title/Abstract: Concurrent density dependence and independence in populations of arctic ground squirrels
Affiliation: Division of Life Sciences, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

Submitted by: Luke Copland
Author: Luke Copland and Martin Sharp
Category: Physical Science
Title/Abstract: Mapping thermal and hydrological conditions beneath a polythermal glacier with radio-echo sounding.
Affiliation: Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Submitted by: Dyanna Riedlinger
Authors: Dyanna Riedlinger and Fikret Berkes
Category: Social Science
Title/Abstract: Contributions of traditional knowledge to understanding climate change in the Canadian Arctic.
Affiliation: Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Submitted by: Valerie Barber
Authors: Valerie A. Barber, Glenn Patrick Juday, and Bruce P. Finney
Category: Interdisciplinary
Title/Abstract: Reduced growth in Alaskan white spruce in the 20th Century from temperature - induced drought stress.
Affiliation: Institute of Marine Science and Forest Sciences Department, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska

Honorable Mention

Submitted by: Anna E. Klene
Authors: Anna E. Klene, Frederick E. Nelson, Nikolay I. Shiklomanov, and Kenneth M. Hinkel
Category: Interdisciplinary
Title/Abstract: The n-factor in natural landscapes: variability of air and soil-surface temperatures, Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska.
Affiliation: Department of Geography and Center of Climatic Research, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware

Submitted by: Victoria Woshner
Author: Victoria M. Woshner, Todd M. O'Hara, Gerald R. Bratton, Robert S. Suydam, and Val R. Beasley
Category: Life Science
Title/Abstract: Concentrations and interactions of selected essential and non-essential elements in marine mammals of Arctic Alaska.
Affiliation: Department of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

Submitted by: Ted Lewis
Authors: Ted Lewis, Robert Gilbert, and Scott F. Lamoureux
Category: Physical Science
Title/Abstract: Spatial and temporal changes in sedimentary processes at proglacial Bear Lake, Devon Island, Nunavut.
Affiliation: Department of Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

2001 Competition -- Other Submissions Life Science Category

Submitted by: Katrine Borga
Authors: Katrine Borga, Bjorn Gulliksen, Geir Wing Gabrielsen, Janneche Utne Skaare
Title: Size-related bioaccumulation and between-year variation of organochlorines in ice-associated amphipods from the Arctic Ocean.
Affiliation: Department of Aquatic Resources and Environmental Biology, Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway

Submitted by: Carsten F. Dormann
Author: Carsten F. Dormann
Title: Sex-ratio in willow revisited: consequences of reindeer exclusion.
Affiliation: Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Submitted by: Hector D. Douglas, III
Authors: Hector D. Douglas III, Jason E. Co, Tappey H. Jones, and William E. Conner
Title: Heteropteran chemical repellents identified in the citrus odor of a seabird (Crested Auklet: Aethina cristatella).
Affiliation: Institute of Marine Science, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska

Submitted by: Frank Kienast
Author: Frank Kienast, Christine Siegert, Alexandr Dereviagin, and Dieter Hans Mai
Title: Climatic implications of late Quaternary plant macrofossil assemblages from the Taymyr Peninsula, Siberia.
Affiliation: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Submitted by: Alla A. Kolesnikova
Authors: Alla A. Kolesnikova
Title: The role and place of beetles (Coleoptera) in tundra ecosystems of the european North-East of Russia.
Affiliation: Laboratory of Invertebrates, Institute of Biology, Ural Department of Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russia

Submitted by: Mette Mauritzen
Authors: Mette Mauritzen and Andrew E. Derocher
Title: Female polar bear space use strategies in a dynamic sea ice habitat.
Affiliation: Biological Institute, Department of Zoology, University of Oslo, Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromso, Norway

Submitted by: Marcianna Ptak
Authors: Marcianna Ptak, Richard Rivkin, and Don Deibel
Title: Summertime bacterial dynamics in the North Water Polynya.
Affiliation: Ocean Sciences Center, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

Submitted by: Morgan A. Robertson
Authors: Morgan A. Robertson, Janice E. Rowell, Robert G. White, and Christopher J. Lupton
Title: Effects of methionine supplements on wool (qiviut) growth, live weight gain and protein deposition in captive muskoxen.
Affiliation: Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska

Submitted by: Douglas L. Schamel
Authors: Douglas L. Schamel
Title: Male availability and male mate choice as constraints for polyandry in the Red-necked Phalarope.
Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada

Submitted by: Ingo Schewe
Authors: Ingo Schewe and Thomas Soltwedel
Title: Deep-sea meiobenthos of the central Arctic Ocean: distribution patterns and size-structure under extreme oligotrophic conditions.
Affiliation: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

Submitted by: Josephine Simonetti
Author: Josephine Simonetti, James Berner, and Kandace Williams
Title: Concentrations of p,p'-DDE relative to the Alaskan environment have significant effects on immature mammalian cells in culture.
Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Program, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska

Submitted by: Robert B. Weladji
Authors: Robert B. Weladji, David R. Klein, Oystein Holand, and Atle Mysterud
Title: Responses of northern ungulates to climatic variability: a reindeer/caribou perspective.
Affiliation: Animal Science, Agricultural University of Norway, Norway

Submitted by: Catherine S. Wightman
Authors: Catherine S. Wightman
Title: Breeding Habitat and Reproductive Success of a Recovering Population of Peregrine Falcons Falco peregrinus in Central West Greenland.
Affiliation: Raptor Research Center, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho

Submitted by: Victoria Woshner
Authors: Victoria M. Woshner, Matt Wallig, Todd M. O'Hara, JoAnn Eurell, Gerald R. Bratton, Robert S. Suydam, and Val R. Beasley
Title: Absence of lesions in marine mammals from Arctic Alaska, tissue concentrations of selected elements, and distribution of inorganic mercury in liver and kidney of beluga and bowhead whales.
Affiliation: Department of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

Physical Science Category

 
Submitted by: Anne Armstrong
Author: Anne E. Armstrong, L.Bruno Tremblay, and Lawrence A. Mysak
Title: A data model intercomparison study of Arctic sea-ice variability.
Affiliation: Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Submitted by: Julie Bacle
Author: Julie Bacle, Eddy Carmack, and Grant Ingram
Title: Water mass structure and circulation under the North Water Polynya.
Affiliation: Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Institute of Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada

Submitted by: Chris Halle
Authors: Chris Halle and Robert Pinkel
Title: Internal Wave Variability in the Beaufort Sea During the Winter of 1993/94.
Affiliation: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, California

Submitted by: Chris Hugenholtz
Authors: Chris Hugenholtz
Title: Active-layer detachment slides on an alpine plateau, near Kluane Lake, Yukon Territory.
Affiliation: Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Submitted by: Steve Kokelj
Author: Steven V. Kokelj and Antoni G. Lewkowicz
Title: Salinization of permafrost terrain due to natural geomorphic disturbance, Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island.
Affiliation: Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Submitted by: Doerte Mann
Author: Dorte Mann, Jeffrey Freymueller, and Zhong Lu
Title: Deformation associated with the 1997 eruption of Okmok volcano, Alaska.
Affiliation: Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska

Submitted by: Doug Marble
Author: Douglas Marble, Wieslaw Maslowski, Waldemar Walczowksi, Ursula Schauer, and Albert J. Semtner
Title: Simulated annual mass, heat, and salt transport through the Barents Sea from an eddy permitting pan-Arctic coupled ice-ocean model.
Affiliation: Department of Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, California

Submitted by: CJ Mundy
Author: C.J. Mundy and David G. Barber
Title: On the relationship between spatial patterns of sea ice type and the mechanisms which create and maintain the North Water (NOW) polyna.
Affiliation: Department of Geography, University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Submitted by: Jason Parviainen
Authors: Jason Parviainen and John W. Pomeroy
Title: Multiple-scale modelling of forest snow sublimation: initial findings.
Affiliation: Department of Agricultural and Bioresource Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Submitted by: Ignatius Rigor
Authors: Ignatius Rigor, John M. Wallace, and Roger L. Colony
Title: Sea ice motion in response to the arctic oscillation.
Affiliation: Applied Physics Laboratory and Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Submitted by: L. Micaela Smith
Author: L. Micaela Smith, Julian P. Sachs, Anne E. Jennings, David M. Anderson, and Anne deVernal
Title: Anomalous d13C depletions during deglaciation of the East Greenland continental shelf attributed to release of methane hydrates.
Affiliation: Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and Department of Geological Services, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

Submitted by: Daithi A. Stone
Author: Daithi A. Stone, Andrew J. Weaver, and Francis W. Zwiers
Title: Trends in Canadian Precipitation Intensity.
Affiliation: School of Earth and Ocean Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Submitted by: Carolyn Viscosi-Shirley
Author: Carolyn Viscosi-Shirley, K. Mammone, Nicklas Pisias, and Jack Dymond
Title: Siberian-Arctic Shelf surface sediment clay mineralogy and multi-element chemistry as indicators of sediment sources and modes of transport.
Affiliation: College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon

Submitted by: Carolyn Viscosi-Shirley
Authors: Carolyn Viscosi-Shirley, Nicklas Pisias, and K. Mammone
Title: Sediment transport pathways and processes on the Siberian- Arctic Shelf.
Affiliation: College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon

Social Science Category

Submitted by: Caroline Brown
Author: Caroline Brown and Phyllis Morrow
Title: A resource most vital: legal interventions in native child welfare.
Affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Submitted by: Amy Craver
Author: Amy Craver
Title: The social organization and the concept of domestic function in Inupiaq Eskimo complex households.
Affiliation: Folklore Department, Indiana University, Bloomingdale, Indiana

Submitted by: Bill Finnegan
Author: William Finnegan
Title: Co-managing caribou in Northwest Alaska: A case study of stakeholder involvement in the management of the Western Arctic Caribou Herd.
Affiliation: Environmental Studies Department, Dartmouth College, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Submitted by: Shari Fox
Author: Shari Fox
Title: When the weather is "Uggianaqtuq": Inuit knowledge of climate change in the Eastern Canadian.
Affiliation: Arctic Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

Submitted by: Donald H. Holly, Jr.
Author: Donald H. Holly Jr.
Title: The subarctic past in the anthropological imagination.
Affiliation: Department of Anthropology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Submitted by: Pamela Stern
Author: Pamela Stern
Title: Changing times and time discipline in a Canadian Inuit community.
Affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, California

Submitted by: Mary Swift
Author: Mary Swift and Shanley E. M. Allen
Title: Verb base Elision in Inuktitut conversational discourse.
Affiliation: Department of Linguistics, University of Texas, Austin, Texas

Submitted by: Julie Zimmer
Author: Julie Zimmer
Title: "Subsistence digging" in archeological sites of Northwest Alaska: supplying materials for the art market.
Affiliation: Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Interdisciplinary Category

Submitted by: Valerie Barber
Authors: Valerie A. Barber, Glenn Patrick Juday, and Bruce P. Finney
Title: Reduced growth in Alaskan white spruce in the 20th Century from temperature - induced drought stress.
Affiliation: Institute of Marine Science and Forest Sciences Department, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska

Submitted by: Katrine Borga
Author: Katrine Borga, M. Poltermann, A. Polder, O. Pavlova, B. Gulliksen, G. W. Gabrielsen, and J. U. Skaare
Title: Influence of diet and sea ice drift on organochlorine bioaccumulation in Arctic ice-associated amphipods.
Affiliation: Department of Aquatic Resources and Environmental Biology, Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway

Submitted by: Xiaoyan Dai
Author: Xiaoyan Dai, Chien-Lu Ping, Rudy John Candler, Ludwig Haumaier, and Wolfgang Zech
Title: Characterization of soil organic matter fractions of tundra soils in arctic Alaska by 13C NMR.
Affiliation: Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska

Submitted by: Fiona S. Danks
Authors: Fiona S. Danks and David R. Klein
Title: Using GIS to predict potential wildlife habitat: a case study of muskoxen in northern Alaska.
Affiliation: Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska

Submitted by: Marie-Andrée Fallu
Author: Marie-Andrée Fallu, Reinhard Pienitz and Nancie Allaire
Title: Diatom-based model for reconstructing past dissolved organic carbon concentrations in lakes of Northern Québec: an open window to past climate.
Affiliation: Geography Department, University Laval- Quebec, Quebec, Canada

Submitted by: Maggie Isbell
Authors: Maggie Isbell, Mary Ellen Gordian, and Lawrence Duffy
Title: Winter indoor air pollution in Alaska: identifying a myth.
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska

Submitted by: Kristin Judd
Author: Kristin E. Judd and George W. Kling
Title: Production and transport of dissolved C in Arctic tundra microcosms: the roles of vegetation and water flow.
Affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Submitted by: Karen Junge
Author: Karen Junge, Christopher Krembs, Jody Deming, Aaron Stierel, and Hajo Eicken
Title: A microscopic approach to investigate bacteria under in-situ conditions in sea-ice samples.
Affiliation: School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Submitted by: Michele E. Kotyk
Authors: Michele E. Kotyk and James F. Basinger
Title: The early Devonian (Pragian) zosterophyll Bathurstia denticulata Hueber.
Affiliation: Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Submitted by: Wendy M. Loya
Author: Wendy M. Loya, Loretta C. Johnson, and Knute J. Nadelhoffer
Title: 14 C tracing of photosynthate into soils of two Arctic tundra ecosystems.
Affiliation: Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas

Submitted by: Dave Maddux
Authors: Dave Maddux
Title: Constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment in the sub-Arctic: fact or fiction?
Affiliation: Plant and Animal Soil Science, School of Agriculture and Land Resource Management, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Submitted by: Bianca B. Perren
Author: Bianca B. Perren
Title: Paleolimnological evidence for recent high Arctic warming: a diatom record from Sawtooth Lake, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut.
Affiliation: Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

Submitted by: Antonina Nikolaevna Savvinova
Author: Antonina Nikolaevna Savvinova
Title: Using indigenous knowledge and GIS for sustainable development of the Arctic regions in Sakha republic (Yakutia) of Russia.
Affiliation: Department of Geography, Yakut State University, Yakutia, Russia

Submitted by: Margaret Squires
Authors: Margaret Squires, Lance F. W. Lesack, and Dave Huebert
Title: The influence of light on the distribution and abundance of macro-autotrophs in lakes of the Mackenzie Delta, NT, Canada.
Affiliation: Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Submitted by: Takako Takano
Authors: Takako Takano
Title: Environmental perceptions in the context of sustainable development - case study in Ammassalik, Greenland.
Affiliation: Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Submitted by: JaapJan Zeeberg
Authors: JaapJan Zeeberg and Steven L. Forman
Title: Glacier response on north Novaya Zemlya to NAO-controlled fluctuations of temperature and precipitation in the twentieth century.
Affiliation: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois