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In the past decade, food (in)security has been recognized as an important public health and human rights issue in Inuit Nunangat, the Inuit homeland in Arctic Canada. Nunavut in particular has been characterized as the epicenter of a Northern food crisis. While a growing number …

A Song of Ilan is the anti-love story of two Americanized Israelis, one of whom, Ilan, once prevented a suicide bombing by shooting a Palestinian woman. Over the course of the novel, Ilan becomes a suicide bomber himself. The other protagonist, Yedit, orphaned by the Arab-Israel…

This thesis proposes that syncretic fusion between Christian iconography and symbols of traditional Inuit spirituality (shamanism) is evident in Inuit art. The potential for syncretism is dependent upon several factors. These include: the attitudes of Arctic missionaries toward …

This dissertation applies a global chemical transport model (GEOS-Chem) together with ground-based, aircraft, and satellite observations to quantify the sources, transport pathways, and chemical processing of tropospheric pollution in the Arctic. Asian anthropogenic emissions ar…

This thesis utilizes UV-visible spectroscopy to develop new datasets, study Arctic and urban atmospheric composition, and validate satellite data products. The primary instruments used here (the Ground-Based Spectrometers, or GBSs) have been taking measurements at the Polar Envi…

Inventing Greenland is a critical and timely assemblage of stories highlighting a shifting landscape—one born from the imagination, projections, and ambitions of a wide range of actors. Today, especially within the design discipline, there is a lack of understanding of Greenland…

Uncertainty in climate predictions arises from three distinct sources: the internal variability of the climate system, which refers to natural fluctuations in climate that occur even in the absence of external forcing, model or structural uncertainty, as different models make di…

Arctic Cod (Boreogadus saida) dominates fish assemblages in the Arctic and provides a valuable food source to upper trophic level predators. Little is known about several important facets of its biology and ecology in the Pacific Arctic, including in the Chukchi and Beaufort sea…

Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) are globally important pests that have strong population responses to environmental change. They are also model organisms for testing theories about the ways that species interactions structure ecological communities, and the mechanisms by which d…

On the surface, this thesis explores a few incidents in the life of an individual Mountie, Harry Stallworthy. However, in depth it examines how Stallworthy’s work intersected with Canadian sovereignty and colonialism in a period of Canadian history when representations of Canadi…

The objectives of this research are to better understand: (1) how Arctic watersheds respond in terms of hydrological processes to deepening active layers, (2) what the short and long-term changes are to surface water chemistry in watersheds impacted by thermal and physical perma…

A great number of studies have identified strong genetic differences between sympatric anadromous and resident populations of Salmonidae. However, Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) migratory phenotypes in the Nettilling Lake and Amadjuak River ecosystem in Nunavut, Canada have no…

In the 1870s and early 1880s, the Austro-Hungarian Empire launched several polar expeditions in an attempt to promote imperial unity while asserting its equality with other imperial nations on the world stage of exploration. In particular, the Austro-Hungarians saw themselves in…

The Arctic Council is a collaborative forum of member states, Permanent Participants, and Observers. It has created many outputs that have attained high levels of global visibility and shaped state agendas. While the Council has evolved since its inception in 1996, the political…

In recent decades, mass loss from glaciers and ice caps (GICs) worldwide has accelerated, contributing significantly to the observed sea–level rise. Their continued melt is also expected to alter local hydrological systems, affecting freshwater availability and quality. Despite …

In 1845, a 129-man crew headed by Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Canadian Arctic while trying to discover and claim the Northwest Passage for Britain. In the aftermath of the Expedition’s disappearance and the recovery of its remnants by rescue parties, British communities…

As high latitude regions continue a decades-long trend of warming at roughly twice the rate of the global average, an understanding of their climatic histories becomes increasing important for predicting their future. Organic molecular proxies preserved in lake sediment archives…

This dissertation considers firewood selectivity at three pre-contact Alaskan sites: Gerstle River, Hungry Fox and Walakpa. These sites differ according to age, environmental setting and cultural affiliation, providing multiple perspectives from which to understand shared and id…