Notes On a Report Evaluating the Regional Mineral Potential (Non - Hydrocarbon) of the western Arctic Region, Yukon and Northwest Territories

1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
G B Leech
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Mineral Potential ◽  
Western Arctic

Evaluation of the regional mineral potential (non-hydrocarbon) of the western Arctic region

1978 ◽  
Author(s):  
O R Eckstrand ◽  
G A Gross ◽  
R V Kirkham ◽  
G B Leech ◽  
C R Mcleod ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Arctic Region ◽  
Mineral Potential ◽  
Western Arctic

scholarly journals Caribou of the Central Arctic Region of Alaska in relation to adjacent caribou herds

Rangifer ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
D. R. Carruthers ◽  
R. D. Jakimchuk
Keyword(s):  
Rangifer Tarandus ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Early Spring ◽  
Summer Period ◽  
Western Arctic ◽  
Unusual Increase

There was an unusual increase in numbers of caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) in the Central Arctic region of Alaska from 1981 to 1985. In fall and winter numbers were up to five times greater than at the onset of calving in June. Numbers appeared to double during the month of June each year, then remain relatively stable over the summer period with a further increase in the fall. Ingress of caribou from outside the region in fall was observed in all years and egress in the early spring is postulated. We conclude that a small resident herd inhabits the region year round with numbers increasing through ingress of caribou from the Western Arctic herd possibly beginning as early as June. Increases or decreases in the size of adjacent herds probably will affect the numbers of caribou occupying the Central Arctic region.

‘Take it from the top’: northern conceptions about identity in the western Arctic and beyond

Polar Record ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
The South ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Western Arctic ◽  
Student Researchers

ABSTRACTDuring the last decades the Arctic has become more central on the world stage. However, despite increased interest how much do people really know about ‘the north’ and the ‘northern people’? The aim of this article is to chronicle a research project by students, who saw themselves as northerners, that used video to capture northerners’ definitions of the north, as well as asking the community about what they wanted newcomers and southern Canada to know about the north. The group also embarked on a new discipline of northerners studying ‘the south’. 43 students interviewed 95 people in the Beaufort Delta, Northwest Territories and 25 people in Edmonton, Alberta. The student researchers’ responses and that of their interviewees are some of the most direct messages on how northerners view their identity and that of their fellow southern Canadians. This project created a video tool to share, educate, and commence a dialogue between people about the north straight from the source.

scholarly journals Range Extension of Northern Form Dolly Varden (Salvelinus malma malma) to the Upper Arctic Red River Watershed, Northwest Territories, Canada

ARCTIC ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-50
Author(s):  
Kris W.C. Maier ◽  
Neil J. Mochnacz ◽  
Robert Bajno ◽  
Andrew J. Chapelsky ◽  
Peter Rodger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mitochondrial Dna ◽  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Red River ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Ecological Value ◽  
Dolly Varden ◽  
Linear Discriminant ◽  
Arctic Grayling ◽  
Western Arctic

Northern form Dolly Varden is an anadromous char with significant ecological value found in high-gradient rivers of the Western Arctic. Because of declines in population abundance, Dolly Varden was recently designated as “Special Concern” under the federal Species at Risk Act. This species is also of great cultural and dietary significance to Indigenous Peoples of many communities in the Western Arctic; thus, expanding knowledge of the distribution, biology, and essential habitat is an important priority. We present results of a fisheries survey in the headwaters of the Arctic Red River, Northwest Territories, that focused on confirming the presence of Dolly Varden. Of 143 fish captured among 12 sampling locations, two were Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus), 33 were slimy sculpin (Cottus cognatus), and 108 were char identified using qualitative and quantitative morphological features. A subsample of 44 char voucher specimens were frozen whole and later identified using a linear discriminant function (LDF) based on meristic counts and morphological measurements, and a mitochondrial DNA genetic marker. LDF scores indicated that char collected in the Arctic Red River were northern form Dolly Varden. Genetic analysis showed that all but one char possessed mitochondrial DNA sequences common in northern form Dolly Varden from Canada. Our results confirm the presence of Dolly Varden in the Arctic Red River headwaters, extending the confirmed known distribution of this taxon in the Northwest Territories approximately 450 km south and 100 km east of previously delimited areas.

scholarly journals A new Early Devonian (Emsian) arthrodire from the Northwest Territories, Canada, and its significance for paleogeographic reconstruction

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 461-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Peter Schultze ◽  
Stephen L. Cumbaa
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Shoulder Girdle ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Svalbard Archipelago ◽  
Early Devonian ◽  
Red Sandstone ◽  
Marine Deposits ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
First Time

An heterostiid arthrodire, Herasmius dayi sp. nov., is described from upper Lower Devonian marine deposits of the Bear Rock Formation along the Anderson River, Northwest Territories, Canada. New elements described for the genus for the first time include the suborbital, submarginal (also new for the family Heterostiidae), the lateral shoulder girdle with posterior lateral, anterior dorso-lateral, and posterior dorso-lateral plates and possible infragnathal plate. We present a new reconstruction of the cranial region of Herasmius, previously known only from supposedly freshwater – shallow marine deposits of roughly the same age in the Wood Bay Group of Spitsbergen. The late Early Devonian fishes that are common to the Arctic region of northwestern Canada and the island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago of Norway, the porolepiform Heimenia and the arthrodire Herasmius described here, demonstrate the existence of a barrier-free paleogeographic connection between those continental blocks by the late Early Devonian. Comparison of the entire Anderson River vertebrate fauna with other boreal faunas of similar age indicates additional paleogeographic connections north of and around the Old Red Sandstone Continent to the Baltic region, central Europe, and even to the New Siberian Islands and South China, in contrast to most current published paleogeographical reconstructions.

The Multilateral International Treaties Regulating the Legal Regime of the Arctic

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Владислав Авхадеев ◽  
Vladislav Avkhadeev
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Emergency Rescue ◽  
Intergovernmental Cooperation ◽  
Arctic Sea ◽  
Western Arctic

The modern international legal regime of the Arctic is regulated by multilateral international treaties at all levels of legal regulation: universal, regional and subregional. Universal international treaties regulate the legal status of various objects environment, define the legal status of maritime areas or regulate certain types of human activity, including in relation to the Arctic region. Regional multilateral treaties are concluded between the Arctic states on specific issues of environmental protection and emergency rescue activities. Subregional treaties concluded between states of the Western Arctic for the coordination and optimization of intergovernmental cooperation in the Barents (Euro-Arctic) region. In addition, each of the levels of international legal regulation of the regime of the Arctic has certain drawbacks. Universal international treaties that apply to the Arctic sea areas do not always take into account their specific features. Regional international treaties don´t cover complete circle of relations developing between the Arctic states in the course of their cooperation. Subregional treaties apply only to the Western Arctic, and do not regulate the activities of States in the Eastern Arctic and Central Arctic (North Pole region).

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