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Thursday, 30 April 2009 08:04
New disciplines in natural and scientific studies of the Sámi in 19C Sweden – a case study
Written by Karin Granqvist
Anthropology and ethnography: new disciplines in natural and scientific studies of the Sámi in 19th-century Sweden – a case study.
My research focuses on how Sámi were represented in text and images in four natural scientists’ travel and scientific journals and letter correspondence during the nineteenth century. The scientists are Göran Wahlenberg (1780-1851), Lars Levi Læstadius (1800-1861), Sven Lovén (1809-1895) and Axel Hamberg (1863-1933). They were all based in Sweden, but did field studies and field research trips in the north of Finland, the north of Norway, the north of Sweden and Spitsbergen.
They studied, mapped and categorized stones, rocks, ice, plants, and flowers, animals such as birds, reindeers and sea mammals. They also studied the...
Thursday, 23 April 2009 06:09
UAF's 2008 McCall Glacier expedition: Taking stock out the outcome
Written by Matt Nolan
Exactly one year ago today, The University of Alaska Fairbanks began a 5 month expedition to Arctic Alaska to study glacier response to climate change and their influence on the local ecosystems, as part of our contribution to IPY.
The major accomplishments of that effort include:
Extracting nearly 500 m of ice core from three holes in the glacier,
Bringing 170 m of this back to civilization to study paleoclimate in this region,
Installing thermistor strings to measure ice temperature throughout each of the three core holes,
Conducted shallow coring to investigate the processes of internal accumulation on the glacier,
Measured stage and discharge of the outlet stream throughout the summer,...
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Wednesday, 22 April 2009 04:10
FSU IPY Cruise: Meet Professor of Oceanography Bill Landing
Written by CLIVAR Section I6S
FSU IPY Cruise: Meet Professor of Oceanography Bill Landing
CLIVARI6S, Southern Ocean, approaching Antarctica: FSU’s Bill Landing works on deck in the driving sleet of austral summer. Photo by Brett Longworth
Hi, again, from your outreach coordinator and the whole FSU Oceanography team. Though we’ve been “off the radar” for some time now, having traded our sea legs for terra firma, our IPY work is far from over. We’ve introduced part of our team and shared some experiences from our ship time collecting samples on the outbound leg of our CLIVARI6S transect, Longitude 30° E, from S. Africa to Anta...
We began last week shovelling snow from our first winter storm and today it looks like we might just get a chance to shovel out after our second before a third storm arrives. At the end of this week, we reach another milestone in our winter season, when we will say goodbye to the sun until August. Officially, the sun will rise completely above the horizon for the last time on April 23 and then make a partial appearance the following day before hiding below the northern horizon for the next three months. Of course it won’t suddenly get a lot darker the next day, but all we’ll have is twilight until the sun comes up again. Being on the south side of the Hut Point Peninsula, Scott Base saw its last direct sunshine a few...
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In a News article on ipy.org last week we described activities in Washington DC and Baltimore, Maryland, as part of the annual Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting. In particular, we described the special opening-day event in Washington in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty and with focus on IPY; the picture above shows Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere and USA Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at that event. The assembled ministers, representing Antarctic Treaty nations and Arctic Council nations, adopted, by acclimation, a ...
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The unusually settled weather we’ve having since our arrival at Scott Base finally gave way this weekend with the first storm of the winter. As a result, the weather has been declared Condition 1, meaning no off-base travel. Most of us have stepped outside to get a feel of the 100-130 km/h (60-80 mph) winds that have been buffeting the base for the last 36 hours, but otherwise we’ve all been stuck inside watching the storm through windows that flex disconcertingly and checking the weather station dials frequently.
The winds have been consistently out of the South, which will probably drive a lot of the newly-formed sea ice out of McMurdo Sound. Once the weather clears, we will be keen to go up one of the hills near base to get a look out to the North to see check what th...
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Tuesday, 07 April 2009 19:22
Two Interviews of Professor Paul Mayewski
Written by International Polar Foundation
A veteran of over 50 research expeditions in Antarctica, the Arctic, the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau, Professor Mayewski is one of the world's leading glaciologists and climatologists. Also Director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, he has published over 300 papers on climate-related research and co-authored The Ice Chronicles, a book that captures the adventure of scientific research in remote reaches of the Earth and relates important new breakthroughs in the understanding of climate change.
In the first interview published on SciencePoles, ...
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The 8th Polar Day (topic: Polar Oceans) elicited so much interest that it turned into a full week of events that took place across the globe from some likely places such as Edinburgh, Winnipeg and Nuuk to some not so likely places like Brazil & Malaysia. Take a peek at some of the exciting highlights from classrooms, radio stations, field schools and public outreach sessions around the world. Edinburgh, UK: March 14th - 15th The Dynamic Earth science center hosted a hands-on public session with researchers from the Scottish Association for Marine Science who displayed Arctic research footage from recent expeditions. The most popular part of the event was when people got a chance to don the equipment worn by polar scientists. We may have just h...
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Transmission Location: At sea, 21 miles south of Punuk Island (sample station NEC2), south of St. Lawrence Island. Lat/Long: 62deg 42 min N/168 deg 38 min W (grid 62.70). Time: 0834. Temperature: 1.0 dgF, Wind: 24 mph from NW. Wind Chill: ?22 dgF. Scattered clouds, 30% cover. Sunrise: 9:07 AM, Sunset: 9:22 PM. Ice: New ice, small floes, 1-2ft, high ridges. Note: large group of ~30 walrus on large floe ice edge, in and out of water. Ship’s log by Tom Litwin, scientist profiles by Tom Walker.
Flying into Gambell, the Bering sea and Russian Siberian coast beyond. Photo Credit: Tom Litwin
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