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Title Smithsonian at the poles [electronic resource] : contributions to International Polar Year science / Igor Krupnik, Michael A. Lang, and Scott E. Miller, editors.

Imprint Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 405 pages)
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Series Smithsonian contribution to knowledge
Smithsonian contributions to knowledge.
Note Title from title screen (viewed Apr. 22, 2009).
The proceedings of the Smithsonian at the Poles symposium, sponsored by and convened at the Smithsonian Institution on May 3-4, 2007, published as part of the International Polar Year 2007-2008, which is sponsored by the International Council for Science and the World Meteorological Organization.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword / by Ira Rubinoff -- Executive summary / by Michael A. Lang -- Introduction / by Igor Krupnik, Michael A. Lang, and Scott E. Miller -- IPY histories and legacies. -- Advancing polar research and communicating its wonders: quests, questions, and capabilities of weather and climate studies in International Polar Years / James R. Fleming, Cara Seitchek ; Cooperation at the poles? Placing the First International Polar Year in the context of nineteenth-century scientific exploration and collaboration / Marc Rothenberg ; The policy process and the International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958 / Fae L. Korsmo ; Preserving the origins of the space age: the material legacy of the International Geophysical Year (1957-1958) at the National Air and Space Museum / David H. DeVorkin ; From ballooning in the Arctic to 10,000-foot runways in Antarctica: lessons from historic archaeology / Noel D. Broadbent -- Cultural studies. -- "Of no ordinary importance": reversing polarities in Smithsonian Arctic studies / William W. Fitzhugh ; Yup'ik Eskimo contributions to Arctic research at the Smithsonian / Ann Fienup-Riordan ; Smithsonian contributions to Alaskan ethnography: the first IPY Expedition to Barrow, 1881-1883 / Ernest S. Burch, Jr. ; The art of Iñupiaq whaling: elders' interpretations of International Polar Year ethnological collections / Aron L. Crowell ; From tent to trading post and back again: Smithsonian anthropology in Nunavut, Nunavik, Nitassinan, and Nunatsiavut -- the changing IPY agenda, 1882-2007 / Stephen Loring ; "The way we see it coming": building the legacy of indigenous observations in IPY 2007-2008 / Igor Krupnik -- Systematics and biology of polar organisms. -- Species diversity and distributions of pelagic calanoid copepods from the southern ocean / E. Taisoo Park, Frank D. Ferrari ; Brooding and species diversity in the southern ocean: selection for brooders or speciation within brooding clades? / John S. Pearse [and others] ; Persistent elevated abundance of octopods in an overfished Antarctic area / Michael Vecchione [and others]. ; Cold comfort: systematics and biology of Antarctic bryozoans / Judith E. Winston ; Considerations of anatomy, morphology, evolution, and function for Narwhal dentition / Martin T. Nweeia [and others] -- Methods and techniques of under-ice research -- Scientific diving under ice: a 40-year bipolar research tool / Michael A. Lang, Rob Robbins ; Environmental and molecular mechanisms of cold adaptation in polar marine invertebrates / Adam G. Marsh ; Milestones in the study of diving physiology: Antarctic Emperor Penguins and Weddell Seals / Gerald Kooyman ; Interannual and spatial variability in light attenuation: evidence from three decades of growth in the Arctic kelp, Laminaria solidungula / Kenneth H. Dunton, Susan V. Schonberg, Dale W. Funk ; Life under Antarctic pack ice: a Krill perspective / Langdon B. Quentin, Robin M. Ross -- Environmental change and polar marine ecosystems. -- Inhibition of phytoplankton and bacterial productivity by solar radiation in the Ross Sea polynya / Patrick J. Neale [and others] ; Southern ocean primary productivity: variability and a view to the future / Walker O. Smith, Jr., Josefino C. Comiso ; Chromophoric dissolved organic matter cycling during a Ross Sea Phaeocystis antarctica Bloom / David J. Kieber, Diedre A. Toole, Ronald P. Kiene ; Capital expenditure and income (foraging) during Pinniped lactation: the example of the Weddell Seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) / Regina Eisert, Olav T. Oftedal ; Latitudinal patterns of biological invasions in marine ecosystems: a polar perspective / Gregory M. Ruiz, Chad L. Hewitt -- Polar astronomy : observational cosmology. -- Cosmology from Antarctica / Robert W. Wilson, Antony A. Stark ; Feeding the black hole at the center of the Milky Way: AST/RO observations / Christopher L. Martin ; HEAT: the High Elevation Antarctic Terahertz Telescope / Christopher K. Walker, Craig A. Kulesa ; Watching star birth from the Antarctic plateau / Nick F.H. Tothill [and others] ; Antarctic meteorites: exploring the solar system from the ice / Timothy J. McCoy, Linda C. Welzenbach, Catherine M. Corrigan.
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Subject International Polar Year (2007-2008) (OCoLC)fst01765275
International Polar Year, 2007-2008 -- Congresses.
Polar regions -- Research -- Congresses.
Research -- Polar regions -- Congresses.
Arctic regions -- Research -- Congresses.
Antarctica -- Research -- Congresses.
Polar regions -- Environmental conditions -- Congresses.
Climatic changes -- Detection -- Polar regions -- Congresses.
Régions polaires -- Recherche -- Congrès.
Recherche -- Régions polaires -- Congrès.
Arctique -- Recherche -- Congrès.
Antarctique -- Recherche -- Congrès.
Régions polaires -- Environnement -- Congrès.
Climat -- Changements -- Détection -- Régions polaires -- Congrès.
Regiones polares.
Climatic changes -- Detection. (OCoLC)fst00864234
Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
Research. (OCoLC)fst01095153
Antarctica. (OCoLC)fst01239992
Arctic Regions. (OCoLC)fst01240227
Polar regions. (OCoLC)fst01245645
Região polar.
Mudança climática -- Regiões polares.
Regiones polares.
Chronological Term 2007 - 2008
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings. (OCoLC)fst01423772
Added Author Krupnik, Igor.
Lang, Michael A.
Miller, Scott E. (Scott Everett)
International Council for Science.
World Meteorological Organization.
Added Title Contributions to International Polar Year science
Other Form: Smithsonian at the poles xv, 405 p. (DLC) 2008042055 (OCoLC)259754331
ISBN 9780978846015 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
097884601X
Gpo Item No. 0910-A-14 (online) 0910 (online)
Sudoc No. SI 1.2: P 75

 
    
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