15 October, 2002

Whaling Community / Press Clips / ARCUS Student Competition

Resources, meetings, and opportunities (courses, competitions, graduate work, etc.) for the polar community follow.

RESOURCES

Faith, Food, and Family in a Yupik Whaling Community by Carol Zane Jolles

You can learn more about this book at: http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/JOLFAC.html

Carol worked with TEA Dena Gershon!

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Book Available from NSF: Polar Press Clips 2002

To order a copy free of charge, visit: http://www.nsf.gov/home/orderpub.htm

Publication Number: NSF 02-153

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Wilderness in the Circumpolar North: searching for compatibility in ecological, traditional, and ecotourism values

To download this publication or order a copy, go to: http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_p026.html

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MEETINGS

The Alaska Migratory Bird Co-Management Council will be meeting Wednesday, Oct 16, 8:30am-5:00pm, Hampton Inn, Anchorage to discuss details of the 2003 spring/summer subsistence migratory bird harvest season and guidelines for regulation development for the 2004 season. The 2003 migratory bird subsistence harvest will be the first legal spring/summer bird harvest in Alaska, thanks to an amendment in the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1997.

The meeting is free and open to the public.

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The 10th Arctic Conference

Idaho State University

Pond Student Union, Salmon River Suite

November 1-2, 2002

For more information contact:

Herb Maschner (maschner@isu.edu)

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Workshop Announcement:

U.S. Climate Change Science Program: Planning Workshop for Scientists and Stakeholders

Washington, D.C.

December 3-5, 2002

For more details including registration information, see: http://www.climatescience.gov/events/workshop2002/default.htm

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AGU Town Meeting: International Polar Science Needs You

December 9, 2002 (6:45 PM to 8:00 PM)

AGU Fall Meeting

San Francisco, CA

Moscone Center (room TBA)

For more information on the AGU Town Meeting contact: Dr. Mahlon C. Kennicutt II (mck2@gerg.tamu.edu)

General information about the Fall Meeting of AGU is available at: http://agu.org/meetings/fm02/

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Call for Abstracts

The Warming World: Designing for Climate Change 6th Annual Science-to-Engineering Workshop

University of Alaska Anchorage

January 3-4, 2003

For more information see: http://www.engr.uaa.alaska.edu/wwdcc/default.htm

Deadline for Abstract Submission is October 31, 2002

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Special Session on "Life in Ice" at The American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) upcoming meeting

Salt Lake City, Utah

February 9-14, 2003

For more information visit: http://www.aslo.org/slc2003

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Call for Papers

7th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography and Joint Symposium on High-Latitude Climate Variations

12-16 May 2003

Hyannis, Massachusetts

Further information about the conference logistics and registration are available from the AMS website at: http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS (under AMS Upcoming Meetings)

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:

Earth Cryosphere as a Habitat and an Object for Nature Management

Pushchino, Russia

19-21 May 2003

For further information contact:

David Gilichinsky (gilichin@issp.serpukhov.su)

Please e-mail your abstracts before 30 December 2002 to: gilichin@issp.serpukhov.su

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OPPORTUNITIES

Opportunity for graduate study in arctic plant ecology and arctic ecosystems at the University of Texas at Arlington

For more information on the biology department and graduate program at the University of Texas at Arlington see: http://www.uta.edu/biology/

For further information on this opportunity contact: Laura Gough, Assistant Professor

(gough@uta.edu)

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REMINDER - Deadline for Intent to Submit for the 7th Annual ARCUS Award for Arctic Research Excellence

DEADLINE for intent to submit a paper is Monday, 21 October 2002. Intents can be emailed or submitted online. The Intent to Submit Form is at: http://www.arcus.org/award/forms.html

Emailed intents must include the entry title, category (social science, life science, physical science, or interdisciplinary research), and 3-5 sentences describing the paper topic.

DEADLINE for papers to be received at ARCUS is: 5:00 p.m. (Alaska Standard Time) on Monday, 25 November 2002.

For more information about this student paper competition see: http://www.arcus.org/award/

or contact:

Janet Warburton (janet@arcus.org) (907-474-1600)