Dear Colleague:
ARCUS is pleased to announce the winners of the Fifth Annual ARCUS Award for
Arctic Research Excellence. In addition to the four winners, we are
announcing three recipients of honorable mentions. The abstracts of the
winning and honorable mention student papers and a listing of all the
2001 participants can be found at http://www.arcus.org.
We thank all of the competition participants for their submissions, which
reflect the excellence of young researchers working in the Arctic and the
diversity of their research.
The winners, by category, are:
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH: Valerie A. Barber, Institute of Marine Science
and Forest Sciences Department, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks,
Alaska, for her paper, "Reduced growth in Alaskan white spruce in the 20th
Century from temperature-induced drought stress."
PHYSICAL SCIENCES: Luke Copland, Department of Earth and Atmospheric
Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, for his paper,
"Mapping thermal and hydrological conditions beneath a polythermal glacier
with radio-echo sounding."
SOCIAL SCIENCES: Dyanna Riedlinger, Natural Resources Institute, University
of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, for her paper, "Contributions of
traditional knowledge to understanding climate change in the Canadian
Arctic."
LIFE SCIENCES: Tim J. Karels, Division of Life Sciences, University of
Toronto at Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, for his paper, "Concurrent density
dependence and independence in populations of arctic ground squirrels."
These winning students have been invited to attend the annual
ARCUS-sponsored Arctic Forum in Washington, D.C. in May 2001 to present their
papers to an audience of arctic researchers, federal agency personnel, and
representatives of government and private organizations involved in arctic
research. Additionally, each winner will receive a $500 honorarium.
The honorable mentions, by category are:
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH: Anna E. Klene, Department of Geography and
Center of Climatic Research, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, for
her paper, "The n-factor in natural landscapes: variability of air and
soil-surface temperatures, Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska."
PHYSICAL SCIENCES: Ted Lewis, Department of Geography, Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario, Canada, for his paper, "Spatial and temporal changes in
sedimentary processes at proglacial Bear Lake, Devon Island, Nunavut."
LIFE SCIENCES: Victoria M. Woshner, Department of Veterinary Biosciences,
University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, for her paper, "Concentrations
and interactions of selected essential and non-essential elements in
marine mammals of Arctic Alaska."
The announcement and entry information for the Sixth Annual ARCUS Award for
Arctic Research Excellence (2002) will be distributed to the community in
late summer 2001. We hope that you will look for it and encourage young
researchers to submit papers to the competition.
Dr. Mark C. Serreze
Committee Chair
ARCUS Award for Arctic Research Excellence