Thomas G Smith

Biographic Data

ID3606584
NAMEThomas G Smith
GIVEN NAMESThomas G
FAMILY NAMESmith
SIGNATURESMITH T G
AFFILIATIONSFisheries and Oceans Canada
ORCID0000-0002-9205-6495
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS28
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1925
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX3

  • Long-term, Harvest-based Monitoring of Ringed Seal Body Condition and Reproduction in Canada’s Western Arctic: An Update through 2019 + Supplementary Appendix 1 (See Article Tools)

    Open AccessLois A Harwood, Thomas G Smith et al.ARTICLEARCTIC2020

    The circumpolar Arctic ringed seal (Pusa hispida) occupies its fast-ice breeding habitat for four to five months during winter and the pack ice or open water of adjacent areas for the rest of the year. From 1971 – 78 and 1992 – 2019, we sampled approximately 100 ringed seals annually from western Prince Albert Sound (WPAS), the prime ringed seal fast-ice breeding habitat in Canada’s Western Arctic, adjacent to primary overwinter foraging habitat …

  • Predation of Harp Seals, Pagophilus groenlandicus , by Polar Bears, Ursus maritimus , in Svalbard

    Open AccessThomas G Smith, Ian StirlingARTICLEARCTIC2019

    Harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus) that breed in February and March in the White Sea migrate to open water around Svalbard and Franz Josef Land in the Barents Sea, feeding pelagically while following the receding ice edge northward to the edge of the polar pack. Although harp seals are present throughout the area during the summer, they are primarily pelagic and do not appear to be extensively preyed upon by polar bears (Ursus maritimus). Howe…

  • Seasonal Movements and Diving of Ringed Seals, Pusa hispida , in the Western Canadian Arctic, 1999–2001 and 2010–11

    Open AccessLois A Harwood, Thomas G Smith et al.ARTICLEARCTIC2015

    Satellite-linked time-depth recorders were deployed on 17 ringed seals in early summer in 1999, 2000, and 2010, near the Inuvialuit community of Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada. The main objective was to investigate movements and diving behaviour of ringed seals in the Prince Albert Sound (PAS) and eastern Amundsen Gulf (EAG) regions in relation to season, sex, and age-class. Tags performed well on 16 of 17 tagged seals, with average tr…

  • An Emerging Pattern of Declining Growth Rates in Belugas of the Beaufort Sea: 1989–2008

    Open AccessLois A Harwood, Michael C S Kingsley et al.ARTICLEARCTIC2014

    Standardized, hunter-based sampling of harvested beluga whales was initiated in the three main harvesting areas of the Mackenzie River delta (Shallow Bay, Kendall Island, Kugmallit Bay) in 1980 and near Paulatuk, Northwest Territories, in 1989. Standard length and sex of landed whales have been recorded for 90 to 110 belugas per year since 1980, and ages have been determined since 1988. Hunters select larger and older belugas; males outnumbered f…

  • Children are Sexually Innocent”: Iranian Parents’ Understanding of Children’s Sexuality

    Open AccessEffat Merghati-Khoei, Effat Merghati Khoei et al.ARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2014Cited by: 3References: 30

  • How Does Divorce Affect Iranian Women's Sexual Well-Being

    Fatemeh Zarei, Effat Merghati Khoei et al.ARTICLEJournal of Divorce & Remarriage2013

    Sexuality and divorce are two interwoven subjects with complex effects on women's sexual well-being in Iranian culture. Results of this exploratory study using focus group discussions and individual interviews revealed how the sexual well-being of women was influenced by the divorce experience through common patterns and recurring themes. A total of 26 women participated voluntarily in the study. They were approached through a selected social sup…

  • Ringed Seals and Sea Ice in Canada’s Western Arctic: Harvest-Based Monitoring 1992–2011

    Open AccessLois A Harwood, Thomas G Smith et al.ARTICLEARCTIC2012

    We examined the relationship between ringed seal body condition and reproduction and spring sea ice conditions in prime ringed seal habitat in Canada’s western Arctic during 1992 – 2011. Since 1970, ice conditions in east Amundsen Gulf and west Prince Albert Sound have shown only a slight trend toward earlier ice clearance (breakup) in spring (3 – 7 days per decade) (p < 0.10) and no trend toward later freeze-up or increased variability in timing…

  • Fall Migration of Ringed Seals ( Phoca hispida ) through the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, 2001–02

    Open AccessLois A Harwood, Thomas G Smith et al.ARTICLEARCTIC2012

    In a study examining the range, distribution, and habitat use of the ringed seal, Phoca hispida, in Canada’s Western Arctic, eight ringed seals were live-captured, instrumented with satellite-linked (SLTDR-16) transmitters, and released at Cape Parry, Northwest Territories, Canada, on 17 – 19 September 2001 and 7 – 8 September 2002. Locations accepted by the filtering process were received from seven of the eight tagged seals (5 subadults, 1 adul…

  • Jimmy Memorana (1919–2009)

    Open AccessThomas G SmithARTICLEARCTIC2009

  • Green Republican: John Saylor and the Preservation of America's Wilderness

    Stephen C Sturgeon, Stephen Sturgeon et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2007

    Journal Article Green Republican: John Saylor and the Preservation of America's Wilderness Get access Green Republican: John Saylor and the Preservation of America's Wilderness. By Smith Thomas G.. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. x + 404 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00.) Stephen C. Sturgeon Stephen C. Sturgeon Utah State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…

  • Implications of Warm Temperatures and an Unusual Rain Event for the Survival of Ringed Seals on the Coast of Southeastern Baffin Island

    Open AccessIan Stirling, Thomas G SmithARTICLEARCTIC2004

    We recorded an unusually warm period in early April 1979 along the coastline at the end of the Hall Peninsula on southeastern Baffin Island, Nunavut. Maximum temperatures remained at or above freezing for almost a week, and rain fell on our field camp on three consecutive days. In contrast, meteorological data collected from three nearby coastal stations (Brevoort Island, Cape Dyer, and Resolution Island) between 1950 and 1992 indicated that the …

  • David St. Aubin (1952-2002)

    Open AccessThomas G Smith, Joseph R GeraciARTICLEARCTIC2002

    Imagine the scene.Dave, strong, youthful and sharp-eyed, poised to leap off the bow of a swift-turning zodiac, hurl himself into the frigid Arctic waters, and deftly place a hoop-net over the head of a thrashing beluga whale.Each evening we would sit quietly on the cliffs, sharing the satisfaction of a good day's work and a sip of the traditional Navy rum, though yes, he would have preferred a cool glass of beer.The spectacle of the hundreds of b…

  • Whales of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in Canada's Western Arctic: An Overview and Outlook

    Open AccessLois A Harwood, Thomas G SmithARTICLEARCTIC2002

    The beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) and the bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) are seasonal migrants to Canada's Western Arctic, occupying summer range in the southeastern Beaufort Sea and Amundsen Gulf within the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR). These whales also travel through United States (Alaskan) and Russian offshore waters, which include migration routes and overwintering areas for both species. The beluga has for centuries been an…

  • Marine Mammals as Oceanographic Sampling Platforms

    Open AccessThomas G SmithARTICLEARCTIC2001

    THIRTY YEARS AGO, at a meeting devoted to findingnew directions for Arctic biological oceanography,it was suggested that marine mammals might some-day be used as “educated ” oceanographic sampling plat-forms. They are “educated ” because, through millions of years of evolution, they have developed the ability to find and consume such prey as the arctic cod, Boreogadus saida, a keystone (Paine, 1966) Arctic species that to this day has largely elu…

  • Summer and Autumn Movements and Habitat Use by Belugas in the Canadian High Arctic and Adjacent Areas

    Open AccessPierre R Richard, Mads Peter Heide‐Jørgensen et al.ARTICLEARCTIC2001

    Twenty-one adult belugas (8M, 13F) were live-captured and instrumented with satellite-linked transmitters in the summer and fall of 1996. Twelve were captured in estuaries along the coast of Somerset Island in July and nine were captured in September in Croker Bay, SE Devon Island. This paper reports on the summer and autumn movements and dive depths of these animals from late July 1996 until the last tags ceased transmitting in November 1996. Of…

  • Hematology and Plasma Chemistry as Indicators of Health and Ecological Status In Beluga Whales, Delphinapterus Leucas

    Open AccessDavid J St Aubin, Sylvain DeGuise et al.ARTICLEARCTIC2001

    The capture of beluga whales, Delphinapterus leucas, for instrumentation or tagging afforded the opportunity to collect blood, which was analyzed to evaluate the animals' health and gain information on basic physiological systems. Here, we report on hematological and plasma chemical constituents in samples obtained from 183 belugas, 55 of which were handled during attempts to apply tracking instruments. The other 128 samples were either drawn fro…

  • Variation in Reproduction and Body Condition of the Ringed Seal ( Phoca hispida ) in Western Prince Albert Sound, NT, Canada, as Assessed Through a Harvest-based Sampling Program

    Open AccessLois A Harwood, Thomas G Smith et al.ARTICLEARCTIC2000

    Between 1992 and 1998, 869 ringed seals taken in the subsistence harvest in western Prince Albert Sound were sampled by two Inuvialuit seal monitors from Holman, Northwest Territories. Considering the 1992-98 data along with data from 1971-78, we found that the mean body-mass index (BMI) values for females (>= 7 yr) were significantly lower in 1974 than in all other years examined. At the same time, ovulation rates fell from 100% in 1971 and 1972…

  • Trends in Organochlorine Residue Concentrations in Ringed Seal ( Phoca hispida ) from Holman, Northwest Territories, 1972-91

    Open AccessR F Addison, Thomas G SmithARTICLEARCTIC1998

    Samples of blubber for organochlorine (OC) analysis were collected from ringed seals (Phoca hispida) taken during subsistence hunts at Holman, Northwest Territories, in 1972, 1981, 1989, and 1991. DDT-group residue burdens did not change appreciably between 1972 and 1981, but after 1981 concentrations of p,p'-DDE and p,p'-DDT began to fall. By 1991, p,p'-DDE concentrations were less than half, and p,p'-DDT concentrations about 20%, of their 1972 …

  • "Robert Frost, Stewart Udall, and the "Last Go-Down

    Thomas G SmithARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1997

    N 1961, shortly after John F. Kennedy's inauguration, Robert Frost thanked his friend Stewart Udall, then Secretary of the Interior, for having made my life a real party for the last go-down. On the surface Frost and Udall seemed an odd match. During the late 1950s, when their friendship began, the eighty-four-year-old Frost was widely considered the nation's most distinguished poet.2 Udall, a three-term western congressman, had not yet turned fo…

  • Negotiating with Fidel Castro: The Bay of Pigs Prisoners and a Lost Opportunity

    Thomas G SmithARTICLEDiplomatic History1995

  • John Kennedy, Stewart Udall, and New Frontier Conservation

    Thomas G SmithARTICLEPacific Historical Review1995Cited by: 6References: 2

    Research Article| August 01 1995 John Kennedy, Stewart Udall, and New Frontier Conservation Thomas G. Smith Thomas G. Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1995) 64 (3): 329–362. https://doi.org/10.2307/3641005 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permis…

  • Diet of Ringed Seals ( Phoca Hispida ) in a Fjord of West Svalbard

    Open AccessJan-Marcin Węsławski, J Marcin Weslawski et al.ARTICLEARCTIC1994

    Stomachs of 134 ringed seals from West Svalbard (Kongsfjorden) and East Svalbard (drift ice) were examined. Twenty-four prey taxa were found. The most important items were arctic cod (Boreogadus saida), shrimp (Pandalus borealis), krill (Thysanoessa inermis) and the amphipod Themisto libellula. In spring young redfish (Sebastes sp.) was an important food item; in summer seals fed on dense aggregations of krill in front of glaciers. Mysids, amphip…

  • A Review of the Developmental, Behavioural and Physiological Adaptations of the Ringed Seal, Phoca hispida , to Life in the Arctic Winter

    Open AccessThomas G Smith, Michael O Hammill et al.ARTICLEARCTIC1991

    Ringed seals Phoca hispida, the smallest of the marine arctic pinnipeds, are one of only two seal species in the world adapted to life in the land-fast sea ice. The habitat is characterized by a stable ice platform forming in early winter and lies at latitudes subject to extreme low temperatures. The small body size of adults and semi-altricial pups are an unusual adaptation to cold, allowing ringed seals to use shelters that they construct in th…

  • The Canyonlands National Park Controversy, 1961-64

    Thomas G SmithARTICLEUtah Historical Quarterly1991Cited by: 1

    Research Article| July 01 1991 The Canyonlands National Park Controversy, 1961-64 THOMAS G. SMITH THOMAS G. SMITH Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utah Historical Quarterly (1991) 59 (3): 216–242. https://doi.org/10.2307/45061989 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation THOMAS G. SMITH; The Canyonlands National Park Controversy, 1961-64. Utah Historical Quarterly 1…

  • Predation of Belugas and Narwhals by Polar Bears in Nearshore Areas of the Canadian High Arctic

    Open AccessThomas G Smith, Becky SjareARTICLEARCTIC1990

    On 18 August 1988 we found four narwhals and two dead belugas stranded on a low beach at Creswell Bay, Somerset Island. All of the narwhals and two of the belugas had been attacked and partially eaten by polar bears. At Cunningham Inlet, where belugas concentrate in large numbers, we have noted ten strandings over the period 1980-88, without bear predation on these occasions. One bear, hunting from an ice floe in deep water at Cunningham Inlet, k…