Field Research on Axel Heiberg Island, N.W.T., Canada
Field Research on Axel Heiberg Island, N.W.T., Canada

Author: McGill University. Centre for Northern Studies and Research

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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Includes a brief description of the station on Axel Heiberg Island, a bibliography of research undertaken on Axel Heiberg Island with emphasis on the Expedition Fiord region, a comprehensive listing of field parties which have worked from the station, and a data report on Colour Lake. Appendices include lake ice and permafrost data from the McGill Subarctic Research Station at Schefferville, Quebec.

Glaciers and Environmental Change
Glaciers and Environmental Change

Author: Atle Nesje

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1317836065

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This authoritative new text provides a thorough, updated account of glaciers and ice sheets as monitors and indicators of environmental change. It examines the record of environmental change within glaciers and ice sheets, and that of past environments left by retreating glaciers. These themes are examined within the context of environmental change in general and global climate change in particular. Methods of using palaeoenvironmental records are assessed and the implications for future environmental change are discussed. Evidence from glacier ice left in the landscape or within the geological record, provides one of the most important sources of information on environmental change. 'Glaciers and Environmental Change' is a comprehensive account of glaciers andice sheets as monitors and indictaors of environmental change. Based on the latest research, this book consolidates a diverse range of data and explains their applications. it also assesses methods of using palaeoenvironmental records. This authoritative new text examines not only the records of environmental change within glaciers but also that of past environments left by retreating glaciers. These themes are examined within the context of contemporary debates in environmental change and the volume also seeks to draw conclusions concernign past, present and future climatic change in relation to glaciers.

Arctic and Alpine Environments
Arctic and Alpine Environments

Author: Jack D. Ives

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-10-08

Total Pages: 1134

ISBN-13: 1000698947

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Originally published in 1974, Arctic and Alpine Environments examines, the relatively simple ecosystems of arctic and alpine lands that still occupy extensive areas little disturbed by modern technology. The book argues that there is a necessity for carefully controlled development of the resources of these regions and suggests that there is a risk of irreversible disturbance without full understanding of these regions. This book provides a detailed documentation of cold-stressed arctic and alpine terrestrial environments and systematically deals with the present and past physical environment – climate, hydrology and glaciology; biota – treeline, vegetation, vertebrate zoology, and historical biogeography; abiotic processes – geomorphological and pedological and the role of man – bioclimatology, archaeology and technological impact, including radioecology. The book will appeal to academics and students of environmental and biological science, as well as providing a significant source for conservationists’, government agencies and industrial organizations.