David W Norton
Biographic Data
| ID | 6462234 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David W Norton |
| GIVEN NAMES | David W |
| FAMILY NAME | Norton |
| SIGNATURE | NORTON D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
John Joseph Kelley (1933-2022)
The Tanana Chiefs
Melting the Ice Curtain
The Great Quake
The Arctic Guide
Lost
Understanding Earth's Polar Challenges
This reviewer's collection includes dozens of books on Prince William Sound. But the indispensable category has only three
In the Kingdom of Ice
Red Light to Starboard
Second, "recalling" focuses upon combined research and storytelling that this author undertook in stages (Preface, p. ix -xii). Third, "recalling" underscores our tendency to observe certain anniversaries. Both 25th and 50th anniversaries predictably stimulate people to review what wisdom has survived, even ripened, from events or discoveries one and two human generations earlier
North by 2020
Territories is available from the Government of the Northwest Territories
To Russia with Love
Siku
The Big Thaw
photographic account of the 1910-13 expedition under various conditions.Readers interested in a comparison to polar photography using the finest of modern equipment may refer to the recent book by Klipper (2008) as a notable example.The "Afterword" by Hugh Brody (p.275 -280) is a welldone section on some philosophical aspects of capturing the moment of a situation that illustrates an obvious message and a tribute to those who made this collection…
Bent Props and Blow Pots
A Land Gone Lonesome, by Dan O'Neill
the gendered nature of divisions of labor across space and through time will become more circumspect, more empirically and ethnographically grounded, and more carefully reasoned.This volume is a great role model in that regard. REFERENCES
Observations on Shorefast Ice Dynamics in Arctic Alaska and the Responses of the Iñupiat Hunting Community
Although shorefast sea ice forms a platform that facilitates travel, camping, and hunting by Iñupiat subsistence hunters and fishers in the western Arctic, the nearshore sea-ice zone remains an unforgiving and dynamic environment. Traditional hunters constantly hone site-specific experiences and skills with which to optimize the reward-to-risk ratio inherent in operating from this coastal ice. Nearshore ice conditions nevertheless can change sudd…
Drift Velocities of Ice Floes in Alaska's Northern Chukchi Sea Flaw Zone
By March each year, coast-influenced sea ice in Alaska's northern Chukchi Sea consists of the shorefast ice itself plus ice floes moving in a zone that extends from immediately beyond the shorefast ice to coherent pack ice, some 100 km farther offshore. Because westward-drifting polar pack ice encounters fewer landmasses (and less resistance from them) once it passes Point Barrow, a semipermanent polynya or flaw zone dominates coastal ice in this…
A Review of Apparent 20th Century Changes in the Presence of Mussels ( Mytilus trossulus ) and Macroalgae in Arctic Alaska, and of Historical and Paleontological Evidence Used to Relate Mollusc Distri…
Live mussels attached to fresh laminarioid brown algae, all fastened to clusters of pebbles and small cobbles, were repeatedly cast ashore by autumn storms at Barrow, Alaska, in the 1990s. Specimens of Laminaria saccharina and L. solidungula shorten by 100 km a 500 km gap (Peard Bay to Stefansson Sound) between previously known concentrations of these kelp species. For the genus Mytilus, a 1600 km gap in fully documented locations existed between…
Polar Extremes
By Airship to the North Pole
The Barrow Symposium on Sea Ice, 2000
A Barrow Symposium on Sea Ice (BSSI) was held in early winter 2000. The National Science Foundation (U.S.) funded this symposium as the keystone event in a project designed to ally traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) with formal ice research and remote sensing. The goal of the project was to stimulate substantive interactions between scientists and technicians who study sea ice on one hand, and Inupiat Eskimos (primarily whaling captains and t…
Project Coldfeet
Taken to Extremes
The Firecracker Boys, by Dan O’Neill
Arctic Alaska narrowly escaped becoming the nuclear testing ground that Edward Teller of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) passionately hoped it would become.This book details how close the "Father of the H-Bomb" (and years later, the White House's promoter of Star Wars) came to having his way, the nature of his arctic scheme, called "Project Chariot," and the people and intrigues swirling around this other-worldly interval of arctic Cold W…
Theme Schools
In sciences, when anomalies or discrepant observations generate a crisis, so that the old way of looking at things no longer suffices to explain or predict observable events, scientists construct a new paradigm (Kuhn, 1996). Despite vast differences in our backgrounds and in the attributes of our widely separated home institutions, we have arrived at strikingly similar perceptions of the need to fashion a new paradigm within undergraduate educati…
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Oil in the Arctic 2. The Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program
Petroleum exploration and development is proceeding rapidly in the ice-covered waters of the arctic continental shelves. A a consequence of this development, environmental catastrophes on an unprecedented scale are possible in this harsh yet sensitive environment, where the cleanup of spilled oil is extremely difficult, if not virtually impossible. What are the likely damages to the arctic marine ecosystem which will result from petroleum-related…
Oil in the Arctic 1. Historical, Environmental and Regional Perspectives
An ecologist's point of view of the historical, scientific and social background to the Alaskan pipeline and offshore oil is presented ranging over many discipline and their close interplay. Starting with a deep concern about the protection of the Arctic's unique environment and the oil industry's impact upon it, the work of the Alaska Conservation Society is reviewed. The lack of biological information about Alaska's hinterland made environmenta…
The Firecracker Boys, by Dan O’Neill
Arctic Alaska narrowly escaped becoming the nuclear testing ground that Edward Teller of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) passionately hoped it would become.This book details how close the "Father of the H-Bomb" (and years later, the White House's promoter of Star Wars) came to having his way, the nature of his arctic scheme, called "Project Chariot," and the people and intrigues swirling around this other-worldly interval of arctic Cold W…
Theme Schools
In sciences, when anomalies or discrepant observations generate a crisis, so that the old way of looking at things no longer suffices to explain or predict observable events, scientists construct a new paradigm (Kuhn, 1996). Despite vast differences in our backgrounds and in the attributes of our widely separated home institutions, we have arrived at strikingly similar perceptions of the need to fashion a new paradigm within undergraduate educati…
Project Coldfeet
Taken to Extremes
The Barrow Symposium on Sea Ice, 2000
A Barrow Symposium on Sea Ice (BSSI) was held in early winter 2000. The National Science Foundation (U.S.) funded this symposium as the keystone event in a project designed to ally traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) with formal ice research and remote sensing. The goal of the project was to stimulate substantive interactions between scientists and technicians who study sea ice on one hand, and Inupiat Eskimos (primarily whaling captains and t…
By Airship to the North Pole
A Review of Apparent 20th Century Changes in the Presence of Mussels ( Mytilus trossulus ) and Macroalgae in Arctic Alaska, and of Historical and Paleontological Evidence Used to Relate Mollusc Distri…
Live mussels attached to fresh laminarioid brown algae, all fastened to clusters of pebbles and small cobbles, were repeatedly cast ashore by autumn storms at Barrow, Alaska, in the 1990s. Specimens of Laminaria saccharina and L. solidungula shorten by 100 km a 500 km gap (Peard Bay to Stefansson Sound) between previously known concentrations of these kelp species. For the genus Mytilus, a 1600 km gap in fully documented locations existed between…
Polar Extremes
Observations on Shorefast Ice Dynamics in Arctic Alaska and the Responses of the Iñupiat Hunting Community
Although shorefast sea ice forms a platform that facilitates travel, camping, and hunting by Iñupiat subsistence hunters and fishers in the western Arctic, the nearshore sea-ice zone remains an unforgiving and dynamic environment. Traditional hunters constantly hone site-specific experiences and skills with which to optimize the reward-to-risk ratio inherent in operating from this coastal ice. Nearshore ice conditions nevertheless can change sudd…
Drift Velocities of Ice Floes in Alaska's Northern Chukchi Sea Flaw Zone
By March each year, coast-influenced sea ice in Alaska's northern Chukchi Sea consists of the shorefast ice itself plus ice floes moving in a zone that extends from immediately beyond the shorefast ice to coherent pack ice, some 100 km farther offshore. Because westward-drifting polar pack ice encounters fewer landmasses (and less resistance from them) once it passes Point Barrow, a semipermanent polynya or flaw zone dominates coastal ice in this…
A Land Gone Lonesome, by Dan O'Neill
the gendered nature of divisions of labor across space and through time will become more circumspect, more empirically and ethnographically grounded, and more carefully reasoned.This volume is a great role model in that regard. REFERENCES
The Big Thaw
photographic account of the 1910-13 expedition under various conditions.Readers interested in a comparison to polar photography using the finest of modern equipment may refer to the recent book by Klipper (2008) as a notable example.The "Afterword" by Hugh Brody (p.275 -280) is a welldone section on some philosophical aspects of capturing the moment of a situation that illustrates an obvious message and a tribute to those who made this collection…
Bent Props and Blow Pots
Siku
To Russia with Love
North by 2020
Territories is available from the Government of the Northwest Territories
Understanding Earth's Polar Challenges
This reviewer's collection includes dozens of books on Prince William Sound. But the indispensable category has only three
In the Kingdom of Ice
Red Light to Starboard
Second, "recalling" focuses upon combined research and storytelling that this author undertook in stages (Preface, p. ix -xii). Third, "recalling" underscores our tendency to observe certain anniversaries. Both 25th and 50th anniversaries predictably stimulate people to review what wisdom has survived, even ripened, from events or discoveries one and two human generations earlier
Lost
Melting the Ice Curtain
The Great Quake
The Arctic Guide
Geology (17 works) · Geology (15 works) · Geography (14 works) · Oceanography (12 works) · Oceanography (10 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (8 works) · History of Science and Medicine (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Arctic (6 works) · Astrobiology (6 works)