On dangerously thin ice

When environmental biologist and film director Jean Lemire led a film crew to Antarctica, his plan was to document climate change. Instead, he tells Guy Dixon, he and his crew sailed into a potential death trap. Full story...

GUY DIXON, Globe and Mail, July 31, 2008

Posted by

Elise Chodat,

Bibliographic Systems Librarian,

INAC

Energy up North

OIL AND GAS IN THE ARCTIC: ONE-THIRD OF THE WORLD'S PROVEN RESERVES
The energy up there -
According to the U.S. Geological Service, about 412 billion barrels of oil are trapped beneath the pack ice of the Arctic. Precisely who owns the reserves is another question

From theGlobeandMail.com, ReportonBusiness.com, July 24, 2008

Posted by:

Elise Chodat
Bibliographic Systems Librarian
INAC

Two New Books About Admiral Byrd and Stuart Paine

New Books Published by the University of Missouri Press

The University of Missouri Press has published two books that might be of interest to some of our patrons. One title published in 2007 is: Footsteps on the Ice: the Antarctic Diaries of Stuart D. Paine, Second Byrd Expedition (ISBN: 978-0-8262-1741-7). Stuart Paine was a dog driver, radio operator and navigator on Byrd’s Second Antarctic Expedition. It is edited by Merlyn L. Paine, the daughter of Stuart Paine. http://press.umsystem.edu/spring2007/paine.htm

The other book is an extensive biography about Admiral Richard E. Byrd and it has just recently been published: Explorer: The Life of Richard E. Byrd, by Lisle Rose (ISBN: 978-0-8262-1782-0). Mr. Rose conducted research in the Byrd Papers at The Ohio State University Archives and the Archival Program provided many of the photographs used throughout the book. http://press.umsystem.edu/spring2008/rose.htm

submitted by

Lynn Lay

Goldthwait Polar Library
Byrd Polar Research Center
The Ohio State University

Broadband Internet in Nunavut

"Hotspot in a cold spot"
For $60 a month, residents of Nunavut's remote communities can stay connected to the outside world with satellite broadband.

Posted by
Elise Chodat,
Bibliographic Systems Librarian,
INAC

Next Polar Libraries Colloquy (PLC) 2010 at Bremerhaven, Germany

At the 22nd PLC Conference (June 2 - 6, 2008) in Edmonton, AB, Canada the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany was selected as the site for the next PLC Conference in June 2010.

Marcel Brannemann (AWI)

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More information about AWI: http://www.awi.de/en/

More information about Bremerhaven:

http://www.bremerhaven-touristik.de/bremerhaven-tourism/index_eng.html

Credits: BIS Touristik Bremerhaven, Germany

The 'Havenwelten' Bremerhaven - Vision of the 'Museum Mile', March 2009.
lower right: German Emigration Center
center: Klimahaus 8° East (under construction) - Atlantic Sail City Hotel

Announcing - Settlers on the Edge by Niobe Thompson

Settlers on the Edge : Identity and Modernization on Russia's Arctic Frontier

A new book by Niobe Thompson, who presented two documentaires at this year's Polar Libraries Colloquy in Edmonton, has been released by UBC Press.

Based on extensive research in the Arctic Russian region of Chukotka, Settlers on the Edge is the first English-language account of settler life anywhere in the circumpolar north to appear since Robert Paine's The White Arctic (1977), and the first to explore the experiences of Soviet-era migrants to the far north. Niobe Thompson describes the remarkable transformation of a population once dedicated to establishing colonial power on a northern frontier into a rooted community of locals now resisting a renewed colonial project. He also provides unique insights into the future of identity politics in the Arctic, the role of resource capital and the oligarchs in the Russian provinces, and the fundamental human questions of belonging and transience. - UBC Press web site.

Details:
ISBN: 9780774814676
$85.00 Hardcover
304 Pages

For more information about the book and ordering information, see: http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=299172237

Posted by Elise Chodat, Bibliographic Systems Library, INAC for Elaine Maloney.