Fifty More Years Below Zero: Tributes and Meditations for the Naval Arctic Research Laboratorys - Softcover

 
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Synopsis

Contents: 1. Science and community : Iñupiat contributors to the laboratory's effectiveness. Introduction to Alaska's original naturalists / Max C. Brewer and John F. Schindler. Peter Sovalik, an original Arctic naturalist / Robert E. Henshaw and Max C. Brewer. Research on the Colville River Delta : lab and local support / H. Jesse Walker. Historical perspectives on Iñupiat contributions to Arctic science at NARL / Karen N. Brewster -- [pt.] 2. Before North Slope oilfields : the laboratory's formative years. Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 and the beginnings of the Arctic Research Laboratory (ARL) / John F. Schindler. A year at NARL : experiences of a young biologist in the laboratory's early days / Howard M. Feder. Fifty years of monitoring geophysical data at Barrow, Alaska / Jack Townshend. The role of the Office of Naval Research and the International Geophysical Year (1957-58) in the growth of the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory / Maxwell E. Britton. Monitoring of worldwide fallout-related radiation in North Slope people and animals / Wayne C. Hanson -- [pt.] 3. Community and lab as sources for themes in Arctic research. Cold adaptations and fossil atmospheres : polar legacies of Irving and Scholander / Robert Elsner. An overview of early research on small mammals in Arctic Alaska / Robert L. Rausch. Early polar bear studies at NARL / Jack W. Lentfer. Overview of early research on large mammals in Arctic Alaska / G. Edgar Folk Jr. Large mammal energetics at NARL / Robert E. Henshaw. Anthropological research supported by the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory / Richard E. Reanier and Glenn W. Sheehan. Explorations of the North Slope's ecological diversity / John J. Koranda. Coastal processes and their influences on the people of Alaska's North Slope / H. Jesse Walker. Studies of fresh waters on the North Slope / John E. Hobbie ... [et al.]. The oriented thaw lakes : a retrospective / Chas. E. Carson. Higher fungi and slime molds from Arctic coastal and....

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