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Showing 1 to 20 of 751 for “"Arctic"”.
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U.S. Arctic National Interests and Arctic Engagement
… of United States' national interests in the Arctic region, as well as examines the factors that influence how the U.S. engages in cooperative endeavors in the region with other Arctic states. Though geographically located on the periphery of broader global politics, the region nevertheless is …
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Arctic habitat
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1958.
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Arctic house
Currently available housing in the Arctic is limited to solutions that have been adapted from designs for less severe climates. This thesis has developed a new manner of residential construction designed specifically for the Arctic climate and culture. The system invented ensures a variety of …
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From Science in the Arctic to Arctic Science: A Transnational Study of Arctic Travel Narratives, 1818-1883
… making and communicating of knowledge about the Arctic from a transnational perspective between 1818 and the First International Polar Year in 1882-83. By examining both well-known and hitherto neglected narratives from Danish, British, and British-Canadian Arctic explorations, I show that …
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Arctic Trucks Experience
Innan Arctic Trucks hefur myndast eftirspurn eftir leigu á breyttum bifreiðum og fjallaferðum. Arctic Trucks hefur sinnt þessu með núverandi starfsmönnum en nú er komið að því að ákveða fyrirkomulag þessarar ferðaþjónustu til framtíðar. Greiningin sýnir að vörumerkja framlenging eins og Arctic …
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The Effect of Arctic River Hydrological Cycles on Arctic Ocean Circulation
<p>Understanding Arctic Ocean circulation may be critical to fully understanding the global oceanic salt and heat cycles and their response to climate variability. This thesis examines how one important aspect of Arctic Ocean circulation, the effect of freshwater inflow, may contribute to the …
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Arctic Char Otolith Records of Recent Limnological Change in High Arctic Lakes
Arctic lakes have been undergoing significant physical and chemical changes in recent years due to climate warming and permafrost thaw. These changes have the potential to impact organisms residing in these environments such as Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus) which represent the top predatory fish …
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Arctic Ocean ambient noise.
Thesis (Ocean E)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1979.
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Underwater acoustics in arctic environments
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 46-47).
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An Arctic Nuclear Weapons Free Zone – In Search of a Security Architecture for the Arctic
This study seeks to determine why proposals for Arctic nuclear-weapon-free zones (ANWFZ) have thus far failed to come to fruition. In reviewing and analyzing the ANWFZ proposals made by Rich and Vinograndov, Newcombe, Wilkes and Axworthy, which span a time frame of 1964 to 2012, three variables are …
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Population ecology of landlocked Arctic charr, <i>Salvelinus alpinus L</i>., in the Canadian High Arctic
… activities. Four landlocked populations of Arctic charr, <i>Salvelinus alpinus</i> L., were surveyed at 81 oN, close to the northerly extreme of the species range. They were single-species populations consisting of two distinct size modes, "Dwarf" and "Normal" charr, but with major …
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Arctic Circles: the Franklin family, networks of knowledge, and early nineteenth century Arctic exploration, 1818-1859
… examines how the women of the family of the Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) engaged with imperial and geographical networks of knowledge from 1818 to 1859. It argues that over this forty year period, the Franklin women (and especially John Franklin’s second wife, Jane Franklin, …
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Winter vertical migration of Arctic zooplankton
… in zooplankton during the Polar Night in the Arctic Ocean. However, the drivers of this behaviour during an apparent lack of illumination and food are poorly understood, as is its spatial extent across the Arctic Ocean. A novel dataset comprising 58 deployments of moored Acoustic Doppler …
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The modification of arctic permafrost coastlines
The arctic region is undergoing the most rapid environmental change experienced on Earth, and the rate of change is expected to increase over the coming decades. Arctic coasts are particularly vulnerable because they lie at the interface between terrestrial systems dominated by permafrost and …
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Transportation economics for Arctic petroleum resources.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. Thesis. 1970. M.S.
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Champions of the Arctic? A comparative analysis of the Arctic policies and practices of China and Japan
The Arctic has entered the world stage, with rapid changes gaining attention from global actors. Climate change is impacting the Arctic much sooner and more dramatically than in other areas of the world, with the Arctic ice-cap melting at a rapid pace. The ‘opening’ of the Arctic is changing its …
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The Palaeogenomics of Arctic and Sub-Arctic Peoples: A Study of Population Genetics, Adaptations, and Pathogen Incidence
… regions of Siberia and the North American Arctic are some of the last regions of the world to be inhabited by humans; there, sophisticated technologies were developed for hunting marine mammals. Continued migration waves of ancient Western Eurasians and ancient East Asians into northeastern …
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An analysis of Atlantic Water in the Arctic Ocean using the Arctic Subpolar Gyre State Estimate and observations
The Atlantic Water (AW) Layer in the Arctic Subpolar gyre sTate Estimate (ASTE), a regional, medium-resolution coupled ocean-sea ice state estimate, is analyzed for the first time using bounding isopycnals. A surge of AW, marked by rapid increases in mean AW Layer potential temperature and AW Layer …
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