M J Dunbar
Biographic Data
| ID | 972924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M J Dunbar |
| GIVEN NAMES | M J |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunbar |
| SIGNATURE | DUNBAR M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Laval |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-5182-9129 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1936 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Sea Waters surrounding the Québec-Labrador peninsula
L'histoire de l'exploration des eaux côtières de la péninsule Québec-Labrador remonte très loin dans le temps, mais c'est vraiment l'Année polaire internationale de 1882 qui marqua les débuts des premières recherches sérieuses. Les progrès les plus considérables des recherches océanographiques ont cependant été réalisés depuis la IIe guerre mondiale, grâce surtout aux travaux entrepris dans l'Arctique oriental par le Bureau des recherches sur les…
Obituary
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A Unique International Polar Year Contribution: Lucien Turner, Capelin, and Climatic Change
Lucien McShann Turner (1847-1909), one of the most able field naturalists in North America in his day, spent two years (1882-84) at Fort Chimo, Quebec, as meteorological observer for the U.S. Army Signal Service during the first International Polar Year. Among his many activities over and above his IPY duties was the collection and description of the fishes of the region. This paper reports on the significance of Turner's first record, in 1884, o…
Antarctic Krill
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Polar Oceans
Paul Marinus Hansen, 1901-1976
Dr. Paul Marinus Hansen, distinguished marine biologist, Fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America, and for many years Director of the Greenland Fisheries Research Organization, died in January, 1976. ... Paul Hansen was born in November 1901, in Hellerup, a suburb of Copenhagen. At the University of Copenhagen one of his professors was Dr. Adolf Jensen, the acknowledged founder of Greenland fisheries research, ... who continued as Director…
Obituary
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Bering Strait: The Regional Physical Oceanography, by L.K. Coachman, K.A. Aagaard, R.B. Tripp
Climatic Change and Northern Development
My approach to this subject is that of an oceanographer, not a meteorologist; but since much northern development, past, present, and future is closely related to the sea, it is not an inappropriate approach. The Eskimos, or Inuit, are fundamentally a coastal people, living largely on the products of the sea; whalers have used the northern waters extensively, traders have bought, and buy, sea mammal skins and oils, and the present industrial thru…
Instant myth: The case of the west Greenland salmon
It has been said that scientific truths begin as heresies and end as myths, enjoying a period of orthodox acceptance in between. It must be rare, if this is so, for a myth to be imposed upon the public as a “truth”, to be accepted immediately as such, and then to suffer excommunication as heresy. Such a case is at hand in the matter of the sea-life area of the Atlantic Salmon in Davis Strait and of the start of a new pelagic fishery
Anna Monson
For the past decade the editorial office of Arctic has been in the capable hands of a woman of varied experience, unusual achievement and quiet initiative. Anna Monson wears these qualities very modestly, so that it is proper, now that she is retiring from that post, to expose something of the light that she has been hiding. Born in Canada, Mrs. Monson went to St. Helen's School, Abingdon, England; from there to Macdonald College of McGill Univer…
The SCOR/SCAR Polar Oceans Conference
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World Fisheries Policy: Multidisciplinary Views
On the West Greenland Sea-life Area of the Atlantic Salmon
It is the contention of this present note that the West Greenland salmon fishery at least, and probably the other two as well, have come into existence because the salmon themselves have quite recently shifted their sea-life feeding area in response to marine climatic change. The salmon which now appear in west Greenland waters swim very close to the surface and are taken in surface drift nets. The West Greenland waters have been fished and hunte…
Stability and Fragility in Arctic Ecosystems
The conclusions reached in this paper, concerning the "Fragile Arctic" are the following: 1) Two definitions of ecological stability are in use, and it is essential to keep them separate and explicitly stated. "Type-l stability" is the condition of non-oscillation, or nearly non-oscillation and steady state found in certain tropical situations, the result of continued evolution toward greater economy of energy and involving high information conte…
Animal life in the Arctic
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Environment and Good Sense: An Introduction to Environmental Damage and Control in Canada
Environment and Good Sense: An Introduction to Environmental Damage and Control in Canada
An Oceanic Quest: The International Decade of Ocean Exploration
On the Fishery Potential of the Sea Waters of the Canadian North
The fishery potential of water originating in the Arctic Ocean is negligible, not because of water temperature or light penetration, but because of its vertical stability which keeps nutrients near the bottom. The subarctic mixed water is very productive. The marine subarctic zone on the Atlantic side includes Ungava Bay, Labrador coast, Newfoundland waters and the north part of the Gulf of St Lawrence. The very low abundance of fish in Hudson Ba…
Europe: A Natural History, by Kai Curry-Lindahl
A Surge of Oceanographies
T HE pathological preoccupation with outer space that is currently afflicting us has not blinded a certain small segment of the scientific community to other problems: the association of sciences called is booming. oceanography, the founding of which as a discipline is usually traced to the publication by Matthew Fontaine Maury of his Physical Geography of the Sea (1855), is now only 1lo years old. Biological oceanography, if we place its birth a…
This Great and Wide Sea, by R.E. Coker
Oceanography: Invited Lectures Presented at the International Oceanographic Congress Held in New York, 31 August-12 September 1959
The Death of Adam: Evolution and Its Impact on Western Thought . John C. Greene
World Fisheries Policy: Multidisciplinary Views
Greenland during and since the Second World War
is a Danish colony and the largest island in the world. It is Denmark's last remaining overseas possession and one of which Denmark is justly proud. Danish policy in is aimed at developing the population and the country to a condition of final independence (which is, however, still a very long way in the future); and the significance of the occurrences during the second world war is that a vitally important and impressive step in this direction w…
The Sea Waters surrounding the Québec-Labrador peninsula
L'histoire de l'exploration des eaux côtières de la péninsule Québec-Labrador remonte très loin dans le temps, mais c'est vraiment l'Année polaire internationale de 1882 qui marqua les débuts des premières recherches sérieuses. Les progrès les plus considérables des recherches océanographiques ont cependant été réalisés depuis la IIe guerre mondiale, grâce surtout aux travaux entrepris dans l'Arctique oriental par le Bureau des recherches sur les…
An Oceanic Quest: The International Decade of Ocean Exploration
A Surge of Oceanographies
T HE pathological preoccupation with outer space that is currently afflicting us has not blinded a certain small segment of the scientific community to other problems: the association of sciences called is booming. oceanography, the founding of which as a discipline is usually traced to the publication by Matthew Fontaine Maury of his Physical Geography of the Sea (1855), is now only 1lo years old. Biological oceanography, if we place its birth a…
The Oxford University Greenland Expedition, 1935
The Oxford University Greenland Expedition, 1935
Common Cause in the North
i anada and Denmark, competitors in the field of foreign trade, V>i unequal in size, and with different international problems, have one outstanding common interest. Both have large northern areas in process of development, areas of increasing strategic and economic importance. Greenland and Northern Canada have so much in common, and are so obviously parts of the same arctic continental region, that the lack of interest shown hitherto, the one f…
Grönland 1945, by Ole Vidings
Langthen Og Nordpaa, by Christian Vibe
Calanus, New Arctic Research Vessel
Description, with ship's plans, of the new ketch built in 1948 for the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
Greenland during and since the Second World War
is a Danish colony and the largest island in the world. It is Denmark's last remaining overseas possession and one of which Denmark is justly proud. Danish policy in is aimed at developing the population and the country to a condition of final independence (which is, however, still a very long way in the future); and the significance of the occurrences during the second world war is that a vitally important and impressive step in this direction w…
The Ungava Bay Problem
Contains a presentation of the problem of a disrupted native economy, to be solved by immediate assimilation, or alternately by putting Eskimo life as closely as possible on its original basis. Stressing the advantages of the latter, the author analyzes in detail the poor condition of marine mammal life and hunting; also, similarly, the inadequacy of fresh-water fishes and fisheries to serve as economic basis for Eskimos of Ungava region. He sugg…
A. L. Washburn
The decision of the Board of Governors of the Institute, in early 1945, to ask Lincoln Washburn to take on the Executive Directorship, proved a wise and a happy one. Dr. Washburn, known to his very large circle of friends as "Linc", came to Montreal in the same year and set up office in the Institute headquarters. During his six years as Executive Director, he saw the headquarters moved twice, from the top floor of the administration wing of the …
Arctic and Subarctic Marine Ecology: Immediate Problems
The Arctic and sub-Arctic are defined in terms of marine environment. Differences in biological productivity between the areas are discussed, with consideration of the chemical and physical factors involved. Plankton production and biology, benthonic and littoral fauna, and fishes and marine animals present problems related to North American fisheries and Eskimo needs. In each case problems are listed for future study, a discussion of systematic …
Arctic and Subarctic Marine Ecology: Immediate Problems
The Arctic and sub-Arctic are defined in terms of marine environment. Differences in biological productivity between the areas are discussed, with consideration of the chemical and physical factors involved. Plankton production and biology, benthonic and littoral fauna, and fishes and marine animals present problems related to North American fisheries and Eskimo needs. In each case problems are listed for future study, a discussion of systematic …
Recent Biological Research in Greenland
The first two authors present a brief outline of research in plant taxonomy, geography and ecology; tree planting and future work. Dr. Dunbar reviews terrestrial and fresh-water faunistic studies: marine biological and fisheries investigations in West Greenland and its offshore waters
A Note on Climatic Change in the Sea
Strong increase in temperature and water transport in the Gulf Stream-North Atlantic Drift system during the recent climatic amelioration (1915 to about 1945) has been most effective in the northeast part of the system (Iceland, Faeroes, Barents Sea, Svalbard) and West Greenland. Increase in flow of Atlantic water northward is, however, balanced by increased southward flow of polar water. East Greenland and the Canadian Eastern Arctic, influenced…
The Calanus Expeditions in the Canadian Arctic, 1947 to 1955
A review of the work, whether published or not, concerning the abundance, distribution, and propagation of sea mammals and fish. The areas covered, personnel, logistics of each year's expedition and stations are stated. Results are summarized on the hydrography of the areas explored (the entrances to Hudson Bay, Ungava Bay); common food fishes, their biology, breeding, growth, migration, etc.; walrus, ringed seal and beluga, their estimated numbe…
The Death of Adam: Evolution and Its Impact on Western Thought . John C. Greene
This Great and Wide Sea, by R.E. Coker
Oceanography: Invited Lectures Presented at the International Oceanographic Congress Held in New York, 31 August-12 September 1959
Europe: A Natural History, by Kai Curry-Lindahl
A Surge of Oceanographies
T HE pathological preoccupation with outer space that is currently afflicting us has not blinded a certain small segment of the scientific community to other problems: the association of sciences called is booming. oceanography, the founding of which as a discipline is usually traced to the publication by Matthew Fontaine Maury of his Physical Geography of the Sea (1855), is now only 1lo years old. Biological oceanography, if we place its birth a…
On the Fishery Potential of the Sea Waters of the Canadian North
The fishery potential of water originating in the Arctic Ocean is negligible, not because of water temperature or light penetration, but because of its vertical stability which keeps nutrients near the bottom. The subarctic mixed water is very productive. The marine subarctic zone on the Atlantic side includes Ungava Bay, Labrador coast, Newfoundland waters and the north part of the Gulf of St Lawrence. The very low abundance of fish in Hudson Ba…
An Oceanic Quest: The International Decade of Ocean Exploration
Environment and Good Sense: An Introduction to Environmental Damage and Control in Canada
On the West Greenland Sea-life Area of the Atlantic Salmon
It is the contention of this present note that the West Greenland salmon fishery at least, and probably the other two as well, have come into existence because the salmon themselves have quite recently shifted their sea-life feeding area in response to marine climatic change. The salmon which now appear in west Greenland waters swim very close to the surface and are taken in surface drift nets. The West Greenland waters have been fished and hunte…
Stability and Fragility in Arctic Ecosystems
The conclusions reached in this paper, concerning the "Fragile Arctic" are the following: 1) Two definitions of ecological stability are in use, and it is essential to keep them separate and explicitly stated. "Type-l stability" is the condition of non-oscillation, or nearly non-oscillation and steady state found in certain tropical situations, the result of continued evolution toward greater economy of energy and involving high information conte…
Animal life in the Arctic
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Environment and Good Sense: An Introduction to Environmental Damage and Control in Canada
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