2002 All Arctic Visiting Speaker Tours
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2002 Tours
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He covered the following topic, “How you can manage reindeer (Indigenous people science of herding)” with a variety of audiences.
General audience: “Herding reindeer: principles and methods used indigenous peoples in Russian North: managing single animal, small and large groups, leaders of reindeer groups and managing their behavior, reindeer dogs as helpers”.
Scientific audience (students, teachers, scientists): “Behavioral principles of reindeer herding: managing motivation and stimuli of behavior, causes and routes of migrations, basic methods of fattening”.
Ethnographer (students, teachers, scientists) audience: “Herding systems of reindeer indigenous people in Russian North: types of reindeer herding, specificities of management”.
Herders and manager’s audience: “Development of reindeer managing from hunters to herders: routine life of herders through seasons, regulation of sex and age composition of herds, private and state ownership, status of domestic and wild reindeer populations”.
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Dr. McRoy traveled to Cold Bay, Alaska with 5 Barrow High School students, a science teacher, and a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist. The trip was part of a ecological field trip to Izembek National Wildlife Refuge to address eelgrass bed ecology.
At Izembek Lagoon, Dr. McRoy worked with the students and showed them the eelgrass beds. Students learned how to collect eelgrass samples and process them.
A follow up visit by a FWS biologist and Dr. McRoy is currently being planned for a post-journey lesson. This would include Dr. McRoy working with the students to finish up the eelgrass processing. Also the data would be analyzed and the results discussed.
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Presentations
Keynote speaker at the NAME - 2002 Regional Conference regarding the convergence of science and folklore to explain the Arctic climate and environmental changes.
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Co-referent for panel discussion on Politics and Ethics of Research in the Arctic at theInternational PhD School for Studies of Arctic Societies (IPSSAS) 2002 Seminar
Lecture at IPSSAS on Lexical evolution and relationships among Eskimo-Aleut languages
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Possible Cenozoic fossil localities of interest, northeastern Russia
Lunch Seminar, Carneige Museum of Natural History
Tectonics of Kamchatka
Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburg staff
Working in the 'Stans', a geologist's 20 year perspective
Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh
Structural evolution of the Kamchatka - Aleutian arc junction area in the Late Mesozoic and Tertiary
Presentation at the American Geophysical Union conference in Washington, D.C.
Other Activities
Planning and general meetings with Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh staff
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On some problems in recent arctic and Antarctic research
Literatura Borealis: How Far South is North?
The Cultural Lens: Bogoras and the Raven.
Giela ja gova: Nils-Aslak Valkeapää
Authority and Gaze: Who's Writing? Who's Reading? Who's Telling the Stories?
Other Activities
Assist in planning for Anthology of Northern Literature for University of the Arctic.
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Presentations
Bridging the Gap – Documenting History and Culture Across the Bering Strait.
This presentation was held for the general public at the University of Alaska Museum.
Notes: Her presentation was shared with Dr. Igor Krupnik of the Smithsonian’s Arctic Studies Center.