Northern Research Reports

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A report titled "Medical Investigation of Southampton Island" by Malcolm Brown is followed by 28 reports on research projects that were in progress at the end of 1948 and that were funded in part or in whole by the Arctic Institute. The 3 anthropological reports are: "The extension of the tree-ring chronology in Alaska by further excavation so as to date the early phases of Eskimo culture in the Bering Strait region" by J.L. Giddings; "A study of the ethnologic and physical anthropology of Eskimos in the region between Norton Sound and the Alaska Peninsula" by Helge Larsen; and "Cooperative study to determine the developmental sequences in human culture, vegetation, etc., in the Yukon Territory" by H.M. Raup. The 16 biological reports are: "Botanical investigation of portions of the Brooks Range and Arctic Slope of Alaska" by William Cooper and Lloyd Spetzman; "A study of the ecology of Rana sylvatica in relation to permafrost, season, foods, and adaptations" by R.D. Hamilton; "Study of the microfauna of Arctic shore areas, (Coppermine and Hudson Bay)" by Marie Hammer; "A study of the breeding habits of the Canada Goose on the west coast of James Bay" by Harold Hanson; "A biological investigation of the Nueltin Lake area in Keewatin and Manitoba, with special emphasis on the life histories and ecology of mammals, birds and fishes, and on the distribution of plants" by Francis Harper; "An analysis of population structure, gene frequencies and hybridization of Arctic and Subarctic species of Colias" by William Hovanitz; "A forest-botanical study of portions of Ungava Peninsula" by Ilmari Hustich; "A study of certain ornithological problems in the Norton Sound region of Alaska" by Henry Kyllingstad; "An ecological study of the transition zone between tundra and forest in Ungava" by J.W. Marr; "A comparative study of mite fauna of the North American Arctic (Barrow and southward)" by Irwin Newell; "A study of the flora and vegetation of the Canadian Eastern Arctic and Subarctic" by Nicholas Polunin; "A study of the habits and economics of fur animals as factors of management and conservation" by H.F. Quick; "A study of the mammal population of the Canadian Arctic north of Latitude 60° and its value for survival" by A.L. Rand; "A botanical survey of Ungava Peninsula between the head of the Romaine River and Ungava Bay" by Jacques Rousseau; "A study of blood and tissue lipids of Arctic animals in relation to post-hibernation fat depletion" by Charles Wilber; and "Some phases of the relation of selected faunae population (avian and mammalian) to weather at Kluane Lake, Yukon Territory" by L.W. Wing. The 7 geographical/geophysical reports are: "A study of the terrain of the Ungava Peninsula" by G. Vibert Douglas; "A geographical study of the coasts of Hudson Bay and Strait" by T.H. Manning; "A study of the terrain of the Canadian Eastern Arctic (exclusive of the Ungava Peninsula)" by T.T. Paterson; "The use of aerial photographs for predetermining ground conditions influencing engineering structures and construction practices in the arctic and subarctic regions of North America" by Donald Belcher; "To gather and compile all available data on permafrost in the Norman Wells area and to continue a study of permafrost and related soil and snow mechanics with a view to improving the present methods of road building, communications and general construction in the Arctic and Subarctic regions" by R.A. Hemstock; "Project Snow Cornice - the establishment of a glacial research station on the Seward Glacier in the area of the Alaska-Yukon boundary" by Walter Wood; and "A study of the oceanography of the Canadian Eastern Arctic" by M.J. Dunbar. The 2 geological reports are: "Geological study of the East Coast of Hudson Bay" by E.H. Kranck and "A study of the geology of Ungava Peninsula between Ungava Bay and Hudson Bay" by Edgar Aubert de La Rue.