Date

December Issue of the Journal ARCTIC
Volume 60, Number 4
Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA)

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The Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) announces publication of
the December 2007 issue of the journal ARCTIC, now in its 60th year of
continuous publication. A non-profit membership organization and
multidisciplinary research institute of the University of Calgary, AINA
has a mandate 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 bi-national corporation in 1945, the Institute's United States
corporation is housed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

The following papers appear in the December 2007 issue of ARCTIC:

"A Discriminant Analysis Model of Alaskan Biomes Based on Spatial
Climatic and Environmental Data"
By: James J. Simpson, Michael C. Stuart and Christopher Daly

"Sea Ice in Canada's Arctic: Implications for Cruise Tourism"
By: E.J. Stewart, S.E.L. Howell, D. Draper, J. Yackel and A. Tivy

"A Reconsideration of Purported Holocene Bison Bones from Northern
Alaska"
By: Jeffrey T. Rasic and Paul E. Matheus

"Historical and Projected Distributions of Daily Temperature and
Pressure in the Arctic"
By: Michael S. Timlin and John E. Walsh

"Response of Overwintering Caribou to Burned Habitat in Northwest
Alaska"
By: Kyle Joly, Peter Bente and Jim Dau

"Evidence of Recent Treeline Dynamics in Southwest Yukon from Aerial
Photographs"
By: Ryan K. Danby and David S. Hik

"The Arctic Cisco (Coregonus autumnalis) Subsistence and Commercial
Fisheries, Colville River, Alaska: A Conceptual Model"
By: Robert G. Fechhelm, Bill Streever and Benny J. Gallaway

"Plant Macrofossils Associated with an Early Holocene Beaver Dam in
Interior Alaska"
By: Simon Robinson, Alwynne B. Beaudoin, Duane G. Froese, Jennifer Doubt
and John J. Clague

The issue also contains five book reviews and two essays in InfoNorth.
Isla Myers-Smith, recipient of the 2007 Jennifer Robinson Memorial
Scholarship, writes about her research on shrub line advance in alpine
tundra of the Kluane region, and Heidi K. Swanson, winner of the 2007
Lorraine Allison Scholarship, highlights her research on anadromous
arctic charr in coastal arctic lakes.