C Stuart Houston
Biographic Data
| ID | 3606502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Stuart Houston |
| GIVEN NAMES | C Stuart |
| FAMILY NAME | Houston |
| SIGNATURE | HOUSTON C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Northern British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0507-2551 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Contributions to the History of Australasian Ornithology
This book is an emu feather in the cap of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. While it is the sixth Nuttall Memoir to deal with the history of ornithology, it is the first to look beyond North America. More descriptive than interpretive, it follows the example of the essays in the two most recent Nuttall Memoirs in 1995 and 2000 that provided histories of selected museums or organizations. This Australian volume, however, has three noteworthy except…
Owls of the United States and Canada: A Complete Guide to Their Biology and Behavior, by Wayne Lynch
"Must We All Die?": Alaska's Enduring Struggle with Tuberculosis, by Robert Fortuine
Robert Fortuine (pronounced Four-TYNE) is Alaska's pre-eminent medical historian. As we expected, this factfilled book is thoroughly researched and meticulously documented. His preface begins with an account of an xray survey in a remote village early in 1946, when a distraught father pleaded, "Five of my children die this way -I don't want my other kids to go. Must we all die of the TB?"
Captain Francis Crozier: Last Man Standing?, by Michael Smith
"Comment on "Painted Wooden Plaques from the MacFarlane Collection: The Earliest Inuvialuit Graphic Art, by David Morrison
Hunting the 1918 Flu: One Scientist's Search for a Killer Virus, by Kirsty Duncan
From Barrow to Boothia: The Arctic Journal of Chief Factor Peter Warren Dease, 1836–1839, edited by William Barr
Polar Journeys: The Role of Food and Nutrition in Early Exploration, by Robert E. Feeney
Sir John Franklin’s Journals and Correspondence: The First Arctic Land Expedition, 1819-1822, edited with an introduction by Richard C. Davis
Farthest North: The Quest for the North Pole, by Clive Holland
examining the ecological and socio-historical implications of religious syncretism and conversion to Christianity in contexts of inter-ethnic contact.Mixed in here are Saladin d'Anglure's structural interpretation of Inuit shamanism, a paper which argues for the (heretofore overlooked) centrality of the moon in traditional cosmology, Miyaoka's linguistic analysis of the Yupik worldview, and Burch's discussion of "rationality" and "ecological harm…
Comparison of bone mineral content and bone mineral density between dominant and nondominant limbs in children 8–16 years of age
The bone mineral content (BMC), bone mineral density (BMD), and bone free lean tissue (BFLT) of dominant limbs were compared to nondominant values in girls and boys 8–16 years of age (girls, n = 124; boys, n = 110). Results showed that BMC, BMD, and BFLT of the dominant arm was significantly greater than of the nondominant arm ( P P
John Rae (1813-1893)
Dr. John Rae, who spent 22 years in British North America, accurately mapped more miles of North America's unknown northern coastline - excluding Hudson Bay - than did any other explorer. ... Unusually adaptable and a crack shot, he learned native methods of living off the land. Remarkably fit, he set records that have never been surpassed for speed and endurance on snowshoes. John Rae was born on 30 September 1813 in the Hall of Clestrain, near …
Deforestatin in Solu Khumbu
Pierre St. Germain (1790-1843?)
Of the fifteen hired men on John Franklin's first land expedition, Pierre St. Germain has been the most underrated. Although a rogue, a rebel, and a troublemaker, he was the strongest, most resourceful, and most versatile man on the expedition. ... St. Germain, part French and part Indian, served in the Athabasca district for the North West Company from 1812 to 1818. In 1819 he joined the Hudson's Bay Company at a wage of 2,000 Montreal livres (1…
Operation Everest II
Dr John Rae, by R.L. Richards
Human Adaptation
Robert Hood (1797-1821)
Robert Hood was a junior officer with the badly timed, inadequately supplied first Arctic Land Expedition led by John Franklin in 1819-22. Hood made a major contribution to the expedition's incredibly accurate mapping of over 600 miles of coastline, which, in the words of L.H. Neatby, "put a roof on the map of Canada." Hood was the first to prove the action of the aurora borealis on the compass needle and to show that the aurora was an electrical…
John Richardson (1787-1865)
Sir John Richarson first achieved fame as a surgeon and naturalist with the two arctic land expeditions led by John Franklin in 1819-22 and 1825-27. A true generalist, Richardson was competent in geology, mammalogy, ichthyology - a soon became knowledgeable in ornithology. He wrote three of the four volumes of Fauna Boreali-Americana, and edited zoological appendices for the voyages of Parry, Ross, Back, Beechey, Kellett, and Belcher. A formidabl…
Sir John Richardson, Arctic Explorer, Natural Historian, Naval Surgeon, by Robert E. Johnson
William Scoresby, Arctic Scientist, by Tom and Cordelia Stamp
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, by Piers Paul Read
To the Arctic by Canoe 1819-1821: The Journal and Paintings of Robert Hood, Midshipman with Franklin
The Journal and Paintings of Robert Hood
The expedition to the Arctic led by Sir John Franklin in 1819-22 was a major event in Britain's resumed search for the Northwest Passage. The members of Franklin's party were the first white men to travel along the mainland shores of arctic North America; in spite of extreme hardships, they discovered and mapped 675 miles of that coastline. The story of the productive but tragic journey, in which eleven out of twenty people perished on the return…
Sampling of Glacial Snow for Pesticide Analysis on the High Plateau Glacier of Mount Logan
Recently there have been a number of attempts to determine the presence of pollutants in remote areas of the world. The snow of glaciers is a particularly interesting subject for such work, since it contains a record of past years as well as the present. ... Such pollutants are transported by the atmosphere, and it is especially interesting to know if they are present in precipitation that forms at high altitude. As part of the Ice Field Ranges R…
The Icefield Ranges Research Project, 1969
The Icefield Ranges Research Project (IRRP) - as was visualized nearly ten years ago - becomes each year more and more a complete study of the environment dominated by the St. Elias Mountains, Canada/Alaska. Since 1967, IRRP has been composed of three closely-integrated research units, planned to achieve the proposed aims of IRRP as defined by Dr. W.A. Wood, the original Project Director, accepted by the Arctic Institute's Board of Governors in 1…
The Icefield Ranges Research Project, 1970
In 1970 the Icefield Ranges Research Project (IRRP) conducted its tenth consecutive summer of interdisciplinary basic research in the St. Elias Mountains, Yukon Territory, and in the valley and plateau region to the east where all aspects of the environment reflect the influence of those mountains. Summer field investigations began in April and ended the last week in August. And for the first time since the Project's inception in 1961, two progra…
The Icefield Ranges Research Project, 1971
The 1971 Icefield Ranges Research Project (IRRP) field season again was something of a paradox and, as in past seasons, weather was the guilty agent. Projects that were carried out on the continental slope of the St. Elias Mountains enjoyed relatively good weather; those pursued under the direct influence of Pacific maritime air masses suffered through possibly the worst season weatherwise since the inauguration of IRRP in 1961. Research activity…
Sampling of Glacial Snow for Pesticide Analysis on the High Plateau Glacier of Mount Logan
Recently there have been a number of attempts to determine the presence of pollutants in remote areas of the world. The snow of glaciers is a particularly interesting subject for such work, since it contains a record of past years as well as the present. ... Such pollutants are transported by the atmosphere, and it is especially interesting to know if they are present in precipitation that forms at high altitude. As part of the Ice Field Ranges R…
The Journal and Paintings of Robert Hood
The expedition to the Arctic led by Sir John Franklin in 1819-22 was a major event in Britain's resumed search for the Northwest Passage. The members of Franklin's party were the first white men to travel along the mainland shores of arctic North America; in spite of extreme hardships, they discovered and mapped 675 miles of that coastline. The story of the productive but tragic journey, in which eleven out of twenty people perished on the return…
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, by Piers Paul Read
To the Arctic by Canoe 1819-1821: The Journal and Paintings of Robert Hood, Midshipman with Franklin
Sir John Richardson, Arctic Explorer, Natural Historian, Naval Surgeon, by Robert E. Johnson
William Scoresby, Arctic Scientist, by Tom and Cordelia Stamp
Robert Hood (1797-1821)
Robert Hood was a junior officer with the badly timed, inadequately supplied first Arctic Land Expedition led by John Franklin in 1819-22. Hood made a major contribution to the expedition's incredibly accurate mapping of over 600 miles of coastline, which, in the words of L.H. Neatby, "put a roof on the map of Canada." Hood was the first to prove the action of the aurora borealis on the compass needle and to show that the aurora was an electrical…
John Richardson (1787-1865)
Sir John Richarson first achieved fame as a surgeon and naturalist with the two arctic land expeditions led by John Franklin in 1819-22 and 1825-27. A true generalist, Richardson was competent in geology, mammalogy, ichthyology - a soon became knowledgeable in ornithology. He wrote three of the four volumes of Fauna Boreali-Americana, and edited zoological appendices for the voyages of Parry, Ross, Back, Beechey, Kellett, and Belcher. A formidabl…
Dr John Rae, by R.L. Richards
Human Adaptation
Pierre St. Germain (1790-1843?)
Of the fifteen hired men on John Franklin's first land expedition, Pierre St. Germain has been the most underrated. Although a rogue, a rebel, and a troublemaker, he was the strongest, most resourceful, and most versatile man on the expedition. ... St. Germain, part French and part Indian, served in the Athabasca district for the North West Company from 1812 to 1818. In 1819 he joined the Hudson's Bay Company at a wage of 2,000 Montreal livres (1…
Operation Everest II
John Rae (1813-1893)
Dr. John Rae, who spent 22 years in British North America, accurately mapped more miles of North America's unknown northern coastline - excluding Hudson Bay - than did any other explorer. ... Unusually adaptable and a crack shot, he learned native methods of living off the land. Remarkably fit, he set records that have never been surpassed for speed and endurance on snowshoes. John Rae was born on 30 September 1813 in the Hall of Clestrain, near …
Deforestatin in Solu Khumbu
Comparison of bone mineral content and bone mineral density between dominant and nondominant limbs in children 8–16 years of age
The bone mineral content (BMC), bone mineral density (BMD), and bone free lean tissue (BFLT) of dominant limbs were compared to nondominant values in girls and boys 8–16 years of age (girls, n = 124; boys, n = 110). Results showed that BMC, BMD, and BFLT of the dominant arm was significantly greater than of the nondominant arm ( P P
Farthest North: The Quest for the North Pole, by Clive Holland
examining the ecological and socio-historical implications of religious syncretism and conversion to Christianity in contexts of inter-ethnic contact.Mixed in here are Saladin d'Anglure's structural interpretation of Inuit shamanism, a paper which argues for the (heretofore overlooked) centrality of the moon in traditional cosmology, Miyaoka's linguistic analysis of the Yupik worldview, and Burch's discussion of "rationality" and "ecological harm…
Sir John Franklin’s Journals and Correspondence: The First Arctic Land Expedition, 1819-1822, edited with an introduction by Richard C. Davis
Polar Journeys: The Role of Food and Nutrition in Early Exploration, by Robert E. Feeney
Hunting the 1918 Flu: One Scientist's Search for a Killer Virus, by Kirsty Duncan
From Barrow to Boothia: The Arctic Journal of Chief Factor Peter Warren Dease, 1836–1839, edited by William Barr
Contributions to the History of Australasian Ornithology
This book is an emu feather in the cap of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. While it is the sixth Nuttall Memoir to deal with the history of ornithology, it is the first to look beyond North America. More descriptive than interpretive, it follows the example of the essays in the two most recent Nuttall Memoirs in 1995 and 2000 that provided histories of selected museums or organizations. This Australian volume, however, has three noteworthy except…
Owls of the United States and Canada: A Complete Guide to Their Biology and Behavior, by Wayne Lynch
Geology (18 works) · Geography (17 works) · Geology (16 works) · History (13 works) · Oceanography (13 works) · Oceanography (13 works) · Archaeology (12 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Polar Research and Ecology (9 works) · The arctic (9 works)