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Recent Declines in Warming and Vegetation Greening Trends Over Pan-Arctic Tundra
Remote Sens. 2013, 5, 4229-4254; doi:10.3390/rs5094229 OPEN ACCESS Remote Sensing ISSN 2072-4292 www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing Article Recent Declines in Warming and Vegetation Greening Trends over Pan-Arctic Tundra Uma S. Bhatt 1,*, Donald A. Walker 2, Martha K. Raynolds 2, Peter A. Bieniek 1,3, Howard E. Epstein 4, Josefino C. Comiso 5, Jorge E. Pinzon 6, Compton J. Tucker 6 and Igor V. Polyakov 3 1 Geophysical Institute, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College of Natural Science and Mathematics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 903 Koyukuk Dr., Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA; E-Mail: [email protected] 2 Institute of Arctic Biology, Department of Biology and Wildlife, College of Natural Science and Mathematics, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, P.O. Box 757000, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA; E-Mails: [email protected] (D.A.W.); [email protected] (M.K.R.) 3 International Arctic Research Center, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College of Natural Science and Mathematics, 930 Koyukuk Dr., Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA; E-Mail: [email protected] 4 Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, 291 McCormick Rd., Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA; E-Mail: [email protected] 5 Cryospheric Sciences Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 614.1, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA; E-Mail: [email protected] 6 Biospheric Science Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 614.1, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA; E-Mails: [email protected] (J.E.P.); [email protected] (C.J.T.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: [email protected]; Tel.: +1-907-474-2662; Fax: +1-907-474-2473. -
Spanning the Bering Strait
National Park service shared beringian heritage Program U.s. Department of the interior Spanning the Bering Strait 20 years of collaborative research s U b s i s t e N c e h UN t e r i N c h UK o t K a , r U s s i a i N t r o DU c t i o N cean Arctic O N O R T H E L A Chu a e S T kchi Se n R A LASKA a SIBERIA er U C h v u B R i k R S otk S a e i a P v I A en r e m in i n USA r y s M l u l g o a a S K S ew la c ard Peninsu r k t e e r Riv n a n z uko i i Y e t R i v e r ering Sea la B u s n i CANADA n e P la u a ns k ni t Pe a ka N h las c A lf of Alaska m u a G K W E 0 250 500 Pacific Ocean miles S USA The Shared Beringian Heritage Program has been fortunate enough to have had a sustained source of funds to support 3 community based projects and research since its creation in 1991. Presidents George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev expanded their cooperation in the field of environmental protection and the study of global change to create the Shared Beringian Heritage Program. -
Chapter 5 – Date
Chapter 5 – Date Luckily, most of the problems involving time have mostly been solved and packed away in software and hardware where we, and our customers overseas, do not have to deal with it. Thanks to standardization, if a vender in Peking wants to call a customer in Rome, he checks the Internet for the local time. As far as international business goes, it’s generally 24/7 anyway. Calendars on the other hand, are another matter. You may know what time it is in Khövsgöl, Mongolia, but are you sure what day it is, if it is a holiday, or even what year it is? The purpose of this chapter is to make you aware of just how many active calendars there are out there in current use and of the short comings of our Gregorian system as we try to apply it to the rest of the world. There just isn’t room to review them all so think of this as a kind of around the world in 80 days. There are so many different living calendars, and since the Internet is becoming our greatest library yet, a great many ancient ones that must be accounted for as well. We must consider them all in our collations. As I write this in 2010 by the Gregorian calendar, it is 2960 in Northwest Africa, 1727 in Ethopia, and 4710 by the Chinese calendar. A calendar is a symbol of identity. They fix important festivals and dates and help us share a common pacing in our lives. They are the most common framework a civilization or group of people can have. -
BOOM! Boom! Boom! the Sound of the Huge Drums Beaten with a Loud and Lively Rhythm Stirs the Dragon to Action
DRAGON TALES Chapter 1 Dragon Tales of Old China BOOM! boom! boom! The sound of the huge drums beaten with a loud and lively rhythm stirs the dragon to action. Shrill blasts from the trumpets add to his frenzy. His long body writhes; his mammoth jaws open and close. He snaps furiously at a huge ball held by one of the men. Angry that he has missed the red ball, the dragon lunges here and there. The crowd scatters, fearful of being struck by the monsters tail, as it lashes from side to side. The drums roll and crash like thunder. The shrieking trumpets make the great dragon seem like a formidable monster. Children and grownups regret to see him come to the end of his wild chase for the ball. Little does it matter to them that the dragon’s head and tail are made only of bamboo covered with colored paper. They forget that his long cloth body, stretching more than fifty feet down the narrow street, is supported by men carrying poles topped by circular frames. Once a year the dragon awakens in old China and roams the streets, going to homes and shops. He eats up the evil spirits, so the people say, and his presence brings good luck during the new year. Is it any wonder, then, that shopkeepers light long strings of firecrackers and offer gifts of food and money to the men who lead the dragon to their stores? This dragon play is one of the many forms of entertainment given in the streets of Chinese cities at the New Year. -
Arctic Report Card 2018 Effects of Persistent Arctic Warming Continue to Mount
Arctic Report Card 2018 Effects of persistent Arctic warming continue to mount 2018 Headlines 2018 Headlines Video Executive Summary Effects of persistent Arctic warming continue Contacts to mount Vital Signs Surface Air Temperature Continued warming of the Arctic atmosphere Terrestrial Snow Cover and ocean are driving broad change in the Greenland Ice Sheet environmental system in predicted and, also, Sea Ice unexpected ways. New emerging threats Sea Surface Temperature are taking form and highlighting the level of Arctic Ocean Primary uncertainty in the breadth of environmental Productivity change that is to come. Tundra Greenness Other Indicators River Discharge Highlights Lake Ice • Surface air temperatures in the Arctic continued to warm at twice the rate relative to the rest of the globe. Arc- Migratory Tundra Caribou tic air temperatures for the past five years (2014-18) have exceeded all previous records since 1900. and Wild Reindeer • In the terrestrial system, atmospheric warming continued to drive broad, long-term trends in declining Frostbites terrestrial snow cover, melting of theGreenland Ice Sheet and lake ice, increasing summertime Arcticriver discharge, and the expansion and greening of Arctic tundravegetation . Clarity and Clouds • Despite increase of vegetation available for grazing, herd populations of caribou and wild reindeer across the Harmful Algal Blooms in the Arctic tundra have declined by nearly 50% over the last two decades. Arctic • In 2018 Arcticsea ice remained younger, thinner, and covered less area than in the past. The 12 lowest extents in Microplastics in the Marine the satellite record have occurred in the last 12 years. Realms of the Arctic • Pan-Arctic observations suggest a long-term decline in coastal landfast sea ice since measurements began in the Landfast Sea Ice in a 1970s, affecting this important platform for hunting, traveling, and coastal protection for local communities. -
Overview of Environmental and Hydrogeologic Conditions at Barrow, Alaska
Overview of Environmental and Hydrogeologic Conditions at Barrow, Alaska By Kathleen A. McCarthy U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Open-File Report 94-322 Prepared in cooperation with the FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION Anchorage, Alaska 1994 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BRUCE BABBITT, Secretary U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Gordon P. Eaton, Director For additional information write to: Copies of this report may be purchased from: District Chief U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Geological Survey Earth Science Information Center 4230 University Drive, Suite 201 Open-File Reports Section Anchorage, AK 99508-4664 Box25286, MS 517 Federal Center Denver, CO 80225-0425 CONTENTS Abstract ................................................................. 1 Introduction............................................................... 1 Physical setting ............................................................ 2 Climate .............................................................. 2 Surficial geology....................................................... 4 Soils................................................................. 5 Vegetation and wildlife.................................................. 6 Environmental susceptibility.............................................. 7 Hydrology ................................................................ 8 Annual hydrologic cycle ................................................. 9 Winter........................................................... 9 Snowmelt period................................................... 9 Summer......................................................... -
Counterclockwise Rotation of the Arctic Alaska Plate: Best Available Model Or Untenable Hypothesis for the Opening of the Amerasia Basin
Polarforschung 68: 247 - 255, 1998 (erschienen 2000) Counterclockwise Rotation of the Arctic Alaska Plate: Best Available Model or Untenable Hypothesis for the Opening of the Amerasia Basin By Ashton F. Ernbry' THEME 13: The Amerasian Basin and Margins: New Devel discussed by LAWVER & SCOTESE (1990) in a comprehensive opments and Results review of the subject. Summary: For the past thirty years the most widely aeeepted model for the As discussed by LAWVER & SCOTESE (1990), most of the mod opening of Amerasia Basin of the Aretie Oeean has been that the basin openecl els have little support and some are clearly negated by the cur by eountereloekwise rotation of northern Alaska and acljaeent Russia (Aretie Alaska plate) away frorn the Canadian Aretie Arehipelago about a pole in the rent geologieal and geophysical data bases from the Amerasia Maekenzie Delta region. Reeently LANE (1997) has ealled this modcl into ques Basin and its margins. At the time when the LAWVER & SCOTESE tion. Thus it is worth reviewing the main data and arguments for and against the (1990) review was published only the counterclockwise model model to determine if indeed it is untenable as claimed by Lane, 01' is still the seemed to provide a reasonable explanation of available best available model. paleornagnetic, paleogeographic and tectonic data from the The main evidenee in favour of the modcl includes the alignment of diverse margins and geophysical data from the basin (Grantz et al. 1979, geologieal lineaments ancl the eoineiclenee of Alaskan, Valanginian paleo HALGEDAHL & JARRARD 1987, EMBRY 1990, LAWVER et al. 1990). magnetie poles with the eratonie one following plate restoration employing the rotation model. -
PDF Version of Observances Calendar
January National Mentoring Month National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month 2021 This calendar is not all encompassing and hoping to grow in inclusion. For additions to this holiday, observances, and local cultural events calendar (or suggestions for modification), please submit them to this form: https://bit.ly/2DAdL2C Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 Kwanzaa World Introvert Day New Year’s Day Solemnity of Mary 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 World Braille Day Día de los Reyes, Three Russian Orthodox Kings Day, or Epiphany Christmas The Frontline Mass Calls: Learn, Connect, Act 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Korean American Day Maghi National Religious The Frontline Mass Calls: Makar Sankranti Freedom Day Learn, Connect, Act Old New Year or Orthodox New Year 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 World Religion Day Martin Luther King, Jr. Bodhi Day Day Inauguration Day MLK Jr. Marade 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 International Day of Tu B’Shevat Tu B’Shevat Education International Holocaust Remembrance Day 31 February Black History & Heritage Month 2021 This calendar is not all encompassing and hoping to grow in inclusion. For additions to this holiday, observances, and local cultural events calendar (or suggestions for modification), please submit them to this form: https://bit.ly/2DAdL2C Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 National Freedom Day Imbolc Imbolc 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 St. Valentine’s Day President’s Day Mardi Gras Ash Wednesday Lent Lent Lent Lent 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Lent Lent Lent Lent Lent Lent Lent Purim Purim Lantern Festival 28 Lent March March 13 – April 15: Deaf History Month National Multiple Sclerosis Education and Awareness Month Women’s History Month Irish-American Heritage Month 2021 National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month This calendar is not all encompassing and hoping to grow in inclusion. -
Food Security in Arctic Alaska: a Preliminary
Food Security in Arctic Alaska: A Preliminary Assessment Richard A. Caulfield Collection RECHERCHE EN LIGNE La Chaire de recherche du Canada sur la condition autochtone comparée est affiliée au Centre interuniversitaire d’études et de recherches autochtones (CIÉRA) et à la Faculté des sciences sociales de l'Université Laval. Le présent document a été publié initialement dans la collection Recherche du Groupe d’études inuit et circumpolaires (GÉTIC) de l’Université Laval. Adresse postale: Chaire de recherche du Canada sur la condition autochtone comparée Centre interuniversitaire d’études et de recherches autochtones Pavillon Charles-De Koninck Université Laval Québec, QC Canada G1K 7P4 Téléphone: (418) 656-7596 Télécopieur: (418) 656-3023 [email protected] © Richard A. Caulfield 2000 ISBN : 2-921438-37-2 Dépôt légal: Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, 1er trimestre 2000 Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1er trimestre 2000 FOOD SECURITY IN ARCTIC ALASKA: A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT Richard A. Caulfield1 1Richard A. Caulfield, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Alaska Native & Rural Development, University of Alaska Fairbanks, P.O. Box 756500, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775 USA, Phone: (907) 474-5573; Fax (907) 474-6325; email [email protected]. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction . 1 1 – Alaska’s Arctic regions. 1 1.1 Nome Census Area . 2 1.2 North West Arctic Borough . 3 1.3 North Slope Borough . 4 2 – Country food and food security in Alaska’s Arctic . 4 3 – The formal sector and food security . 7 4 – Issues affecting food security in Arctic Alaska . 6 4.1 Subsistence conflicts . 6 4.2 Arctic contaminants . 7 4.3 Global climate change . -
Special Events Calendar
2020-2021 Student Calendar Lincoln Public Schools Lincoln, Nebraska Revised 3/20 2020-2021 Student Calendar 2020 2021 Lincoln Public Schools Lincoln, Nebraska 1 2 3 4 1 2 Revised 3/20 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 2020 2021 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 26 27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 1 2 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 2 Nebraska Teacher Appreciation Day 16-May 2 Ridvan (Bahá’í) 26 27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 February 2021 31 2 Read Across America Day 19-25 Public 2 3 School4 5 Volunteer6 7 8 Week 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Lincoln Public Schools MONTH CELEBRATIONS 3 Adoption of U.S. National Anthem 19-25 Administrative 16 17 18 19 20Professionals 21 22 21 Week22 23 24 25 26 27 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 28 2020-2021 African American History 4 Zoetis-LPS-GSK Science Fair 21 Administrative 30 31 Professionals Day 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 Children’s 2Dental 3 4Health 5 6 7 8 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 8-12 NO SCHOOL 22 Earth Day Random Acts 9 10 of Kindness11 12 13 14 15 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 8 International Women’s Day 24 National 1Arbor 2 3Day 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 Special Events Youth Leadership 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 28 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 30 31 11 Maha Shivaratri (Hinduism) 25 Mahavir 13 14 15Jayanti 16 17 (Jain) 18 19 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 11 Johnny Appleseed Day 27 PLC 20 21DAY—EARLY 22 23 24 25 26 DISMISSAL 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Calendar 27 28 29 30 28 29 30 31 1 National Freedom Day 14 Daylight Savings Time Begins (Clocks forward) 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 2020-2021 Student Calendar 1-7 National 6 7 8School 9 10 Counseling11 12 7 Week8 9 10 11 12 13 17 St. -
Jarich Gerlof Oosten (1945-2016) Frédéric Laugrand
Document généré le 30 sept. 2021 02:14 Études/Inuit/Studies In Memoriam Jarich Gerlof Oosten (1945-2016) Frédéric Laugrand La santé des Inuit Inuit health Volume 40, numéro 1, 2016 URI : https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1040155ar DOI : https://doi.org/10.7202/1040155ar Aller au sommaire du numéro Éditeur(s) Association Inuksiutiit Katimajiit Inc. Centre interuniversitaire d’études et de recherches autochtones (CIÉRA) ISSN 0701-1008 (imprimé) 1708-5268 (numérique) Découvrir la revue Citer ce document Laugrand, F. (2016). In Memoriam : Jarich Gerlof Oosten (1945-2016). Études/Inuit/Studies, 40(1), 235–250. https://doi.org/10.7202/1040155ar Tous droits réservés © La revue Études/Inuit/Studies, 2016 Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d’auteur. L’utilisation des services d’Érudit (y compris la reproduction) est assujettie à sa politique d’utilisation que vous pouvez consulter en ligne. https://apropos.erudit.org/fr/usagers/politique-dutilisation/ Cet article est diffusé et préservé par Érudit. Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l’Université de Montréal, l’Université Laval et l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche. https://www.erudit.org/fr/ IN MEMORIAM Jarich Gerlof Oosten (1945-2016) Jarich Gerlof Oosten was born in Enschede, the Netherlands, on January 23, 1945. He left us on May 15, 2016 in Leiden, aboard his ship, leaving behind a great family: his wife Nelleke; four children and their families—Liesbeth, Eva, Maarten, and Johanneke; and many grandchildren. Jarich was very proud of them and much attached to his family life. -
Canada's Arctic Marine Atlas
CANADA’S ARCTIC MARINE ATLAS This Atlas is funded in part by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. I | Suggested Citation: Oceans North Conservation Society, World Wildlife Fund Canada, and Ducks Unlimited Canada. (2018). Canada’s Arctic Marine Atlas. Ottawa, Ontario: Oceans North Conservation Society. Cover image: Shaded Relief Map of Canada’s Arctic by Jeremy Davies Inside cover: Topographic relief of the Canadian Arctic This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA. All photographs © by the photographers ISBN: 978-1-7752749-0-2 (print version) ISBN: 978-1-7752749-1-9 (digital version) Library and Archives Canada Printed in Canada, February 2018 100% Carbon Neutral Print by Hemlock Printers © 1986 Panda symbol WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature (also known as World Wildlife Fund). ® “WWF” is a WWF Registered Trademark. ARCTIC BIRDS SIMPLIFIED FOOD WEB COASTAL AND MARINE BIRDS OF THE ARCTIC GEESE LOONS SEABIRDS SEA DUCKS fish Ecological significance ing tradition by both Indigenous peoples and European Coastal plain flora COASTAL & MARINE carrion Marine birds are found around the globe, from the poles settlers. These days, most marine bird species are pro- BIRDS insect to the tropics, where they live at the interface between tected from harvest by non-Indigenous hunters across Coastal saltmarsh flora fish - Geese air, land, sea, and ice. The harsh conditions that marine Canada, except for a few waterfowl species (eiders, fish - Sea Ducks birds find in these environments have caused unique scoters) and murres specifically in Newfoundland and Intertidal zone flora insect SHOREBIRDS - Loons adaptations in their physiology and morphology and Labrador.