Date

Multiple Publications Available

  1.    Newsletter Available
        Arctic IT Security
        NSF Division of Polar Programs
    
  2.    Newsletter Available
        IDPO Ice Bits, Fall 2013
        Ice Drilling Program Office
    
  3.    Website and Publication Available
        Dangerous Ice Research Project
        University of Alaska Fairbanks
    
  4.    December 2013 Issue of the Journal ARCTIC Available
        Volume 66, Number 4
        Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA)
    

  1. Newsletter Available
    Arctic IT Security, December 2013
    NSF Division of Polar Programs

The Arctic Sciences Section at NSF's Division of Polar Programs
announces publication of the December 2013 Arctic IT Security
newsletter. Special points of interest in this issue include:

        - Hacking of research university systems are on the rise
        - Academia open and collaborative culture challenged
        - F.B.I. consulting with academia to raise awareness and reduce
        threats
        - Immediate application of patches an important mitigation

A link to the newsletter is available on NSF's Arctic Research Support
and Logistics page, at:
https://www.nsf.gov/geo/opp/arctic/res_log_sup.jsp.


  1. Newsletter Available
    IDPO Ice Bits, Fall 2013
    Ice Drilling Program Office

The U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) announces that the Fall 2013
issue of the Ice Bits newsletter, the quarterly update of IDPO and Ice
Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO) activities, is now available at:
http://www.icedrill.org/icebits/.

Items in this issue include:
- Field Support to Antarctic Projects
- Equipment Development
- Intermediate Depth Drill
- Deep Logging Winch
- Blue Ice Drill - Deep
- Shallow Basal Material Recovery Drill
- Rapid Access Hot Water Drill
- Educational Outreach
- Field Support to Science Projects

To download the newsletter, please go to:
http://www.icedrill.org/icebits/.

For further information, please go to:
http://www.icedrill.org/.


  1. Website and Publication Available
    Dangerous Ice Research Project
    University of Alaska Fairbanks

The Elmer E. Rasmuson Library Oral History Program and the Institute of
Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks announce the
completion of the Dangerous Ice Research Project. A corresponding
website (http://www.jukebox.uaf.edu/dangerice) and publication are now
available.

With funding from the National Science Foundation, this research project
brought scientists and local experienced river travelers together to
investigate ice conditions on the Tanana River in interior Alaska. From
2004-2013, local experts provided historical perspective, personal
experience, and traditional knowledge about the ever-changing Tanana
River, and scientific measurements of water temperature, depth and
chemical composition, and ice thickness established better understanding
of the river system dynamics and the influence of groundwater upwelling
on ice conditions.

A booklet on the project, entitled “On Dangerous Ice: Changing Ice
Conditions on the Tanana River,” explains ice dynamics and gives travel
advice for the general public. It is available at no cost, and be
downloaded online (http://bit.ly/1bpiO1D) or you can contact Leslie
McCartney (lmccartney [at] alaska.edu, 907-474-7737) for a hard copy.

For further information, please see the project website, at:
http://www.jukebox.uaf.edu/dangerice.


  1. December 2013 Issue of the Journal ARCTIC Available
    Volume 66, Number 4
    Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America (AINA)

The Arctic Institute of North America (AINA) announces publication of
the December 2013 issue of the journal ARCTIC, Volume 66, Number 4.
AINA is a non-profit membership organization and multidisciplinary
research institute of the University of Calgary. Its mandate is 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.

For information on becoming an AINA member and receiving the journal,
available both in print and online, visit the Institute's website at:
http://www.arctic.ucalgary.ca/.

The following papers appear in the December 2013 issue of ARCTIC:

        - Dive Behavior of Eastern Chukchi Beluga Whales (Delphinapterus
        leucas), 1998-2008
        By: John J. Citta, Robert S. Suydam, Lori T. Quakenbush, Kathryn J.
        Frost and Gregory M. O'Corry-Crowe

        - Residency Times and Patterns of Movement of Postbreeding Dunlin on
        a Subarctic Staging Area in Alaska
        By: Nils Warnock, Colleen M. Handel, Robert E. Gill, Jr. and Brian
        J. McCaffery

        - Distribution of Hauled-Out Ladoga Ringed Seals (Pusa hispida
        ladogensis) in Spring 2012
        By: Irina S. Trukhanova, Eliezer Gurarie and Rustam A. Sagitov

        - First Records of the Arctic Moth Gynaephora groenlandica (Wocke)
        South of the Arctic Circle: A New Alpine Subspecies
        By: Isabel C. Barrio, B. Christian Schmidt, Sydney Cannings and
        David S. Hik

        - Dene Hunting Organization in Fort Good Hope, Northwest
        Territories: Ways We Help Each Other and Share What We Can
        By: Roger McMillan and Brenda Parlee

        - Changing Daily Wind Speeds on Alaska's North Slope: Implications
        for Rural Hunting Opportunities
        By: Winslow D. Hansen, Todd J. Brinkman, Matthew Leonawicz, F.
        Stuart Chapin, III and Gary P. Kofinas

        - Calton Point or Catton Point? A Misprinted Toponym on the Yukon
        Coast
        By: C.R. Burn

        - Temporal Patterns of Arctic and Subarctic Zooplankton Community
        Composition in Jones Sound, Canadian Arctic Archipelago (1961-62,
        1963)
        By: Spencer Apollonio

        - Range Constraints for Introduced Elk in Southwest Yukon, Canada
        By: Wayne L Strong, Jesse H.S. Chambers and Thomas S. Jung

        - Mackenzie Inuit Lithic Raw Material Procurement in the Lower
        Mackenzie Valley: The Importance of Social Factors
        By: Glen MacKay, Adrian L. Burke, Gilles Gauthier and Charles D.
        Arnold

The December issue also contains a commentary by Jim Lotz; four book
reviews; a Letter to the Editor from Aynslie Ogden and Mary-Ellen Thomas
on the Lakehead Manifesto commentary published in the June 2013 issue of
ARCTIC; and an obituary for long-time AINA friend and supporter Len
Hills, written by Wayne Strong and Brian Kooyman.

The InfoNorth section of the December issue features essays written by
AINA's 2013 Jennifer Robinson and Lorraine Allison scholarship
recipients, Anne D. Bjorkman and Jennifer F. Provencher, respectively.
Anne's essay is titled "Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of
Experimental Warming in a High Arctic Tundra Ecosystem," and Jennifer's
essay is titled "Parasites and Pollution: Why Both Matter to Marine Bird
Conservation in the North."

For information on becoming an AINA member and receiving the journal,
please visit the Institute's website at: http://www.arctic.ucalgary.ca/.


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