Arctic Resources

 Since getting home to Cortes, I have read madly. Books have been a way to build off of the trip, as well as pretend I'm still there.  The learning continues... 

As I write this, I am waiting to board the Vancouver ferry. For the next few days, I will be immersed in Arctic research. The annual ArcticNet Conference is in Vancouver, and I've abandoned school in order to attend. As ArcticNet supports much of the Canadian research in the arctic, as well as the Amundsen and the Schools on Board program, many of the scientists from the ship will be there. I can't wait to see them all!

I will write a post after the conference, but, in the meantime, I'll leave you with this list of resources. This is by no means a definitive list - simply what I have found interesting.

Climate Change and Science

Books:

The Changing Arctic Environment: The Arctic Messenger 

By David P. Stone

The Right To Be Cold

By Sheila Watt-Cloutier

An excellent book on climate change as a human rights issue.

The Arctic Climate System

By Mark C. Serreze and Roger G. Barry

Complex but definitive overview of the climate system.

Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic

By Marla Cone

Web:

Ted Talk: "Arctic Amplification" of Global Warming by Prof. Philip Wookey

http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Arctic-Amplification-of-Global

The base of the arctic food chain and primary production timing: http://www.whoi.edu/cms/files/jietal_gcb12074_138980.pdf

Bivals as bioarchives:  http://borea.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/Projet_BBPolar.pdf

***Very good videos, some filmed from the Amundsen are made by Parafilms (Search “Parafilms” on Vimeo): https://vimeo.com/parafilms

Especially:

Discover the Arctic Ocean - https://vimeo.com/123017093

Plankton - https://vimeo.com/12589245

Climate Change - https://vimeo.com/122800376

Stratification - https://vimeo.com/125523274

Arctic Bloom - https://vimeo.com/141660727

Children’s Picture Books

Mama, do you love me? 

By Barbara M. Joosse

North Pole, South Pole

By Nancy Smiler Levinson ; illustrated by Diane Dawson Hearn

Ookpik : the travels of a snowy owl 

By Bruce Hiscock

Whale snow 

By Debby Dahl Edwardson ; illustrated by Annie Patterson

Kumak's fish : a tall tale from the far north 

By Michael Bania

Berry Magic 

By Teri Sloat and Betty Huffmon ; illustrated by Teri Sloat

Children’s/YA Novels

Julie of the Wolves

By Jean Craighead George

The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

The Golden Compass (sometimes called The Northern Lights)

By Philip Pullman

Big, Beautiful Coffee-Table Books

Arctic Eden: a journey through the changing high Arctic 

By Jerry Kobalenko

Through the Eyes of the Vikings: An Aerial Vision of Arctic Lands

By Robert B. Hass

http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/environment/departments/ceos/outreach/twowaysofknowing.html

The Center for Earth Observation Science, University of Manitoba, has published several books. They are all very beautiful, and the CCGS Amundsen and some of the scientists onboard during Schools on Board were involved. They are difficult to get hold of.

Miscellaneous

Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage

By Kathleen Winter

A beautiful book by a brilliant Canadian writer.

Unraveling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony

By David C. Woodman

Camille Seaman

http://www.camilleseaman.com/

Camille Seaman takes beautiful photos of icebergs. She has also given a TED talk, which shows the flipping of an iceberg.

Films

“Before Tomorrow”

(Available at the Co-op)