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:
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
The Call of the Wild
The Golden
Compass (sometimes called The Northern
Lights)
By Philip Pullman
Big, Beautiful Coffee-Table
Books
By Jerry
Kobalenko
Through the Eyes of the Vikings: An Aerial Vision of Arctic
Lands
By Robert B. Hass
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)