Good-bye

Abstract

... After 14 years as executive director of AINA, I shall be moving on at year's end to become the president and chief executive officer of the Glenbow Institute, Calgary's own museum, archives, library, and art gallery. ... So dear readers of Arctic, our select audience of 1800 individuals and libraries, I leave you with this message: .... The Arctic Institute of North America's future depends on maintaining the growth of its subscriber base, database users, community and corporate clients, undergraduate and graduate students, field station principal investigators and field school instructors, and friends. We can never take this support for granted; we know we have to work hard and well to maintain it. ... In the future I hope that Canada finds the national will to create a polar science policy. In the absence of such a policy, we are destined for more piecemeal solutions to polar research issues, and to incomplete attention to circumpolar and bipolar responsibilities. ... I bid the Arctic readership good-bye. And thank you for your support of AINA during my tenure at the helm. ...