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)
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