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Baffin Island: Field Research and High Arctic Adventure, 1961-67

Baffin Island: Field Research and High Arctic Adventure, 1961-67

Ives, Jack D.

Paperback

Series: Northern Lights, Book 18

Environmental StudiesGeneral ScienceGeography

Publisher Price: $39.95

ISBN10: 1552388298
ISBN13: 9781552388297
Publisher: Univ Of Calgary Pr
Published: Mar 3 2016
Pages: 248
Weight: 2.02
Height: 0.58 Width: 8.62 Depth: 10.99
Language: English

A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives has written a lively and informative account of several expeditions to Baffin Island during the golden age of federal research.

In the 1960s, scientists from the Geographical Branch of Canada's Department of Energy, Mines, and Resources travelled to Baffin to study glacial geomorphology and glaciology. Their fieldwork resulted in vastly increased knowledge of the Far North-from its ice caps and glaciers to its lichens and microfossils. Drawing from the recollections of his Baffin colleagues as well as from his own memories, Ives takes readers on a remarkable adventure, describing the day-to-day experiences of the field teams in the context of both contemporary Arctic research and bureaucratic decision making. Along the way, his narrative illustrates the role played by the Cold War-era Distant Early Warning Line and other northern infrastructure, the crucial importance of his pioneering aerial photography, the unpredictable nature of planes, helicopters, and radios in Arctic regions, and of course, the vast and breathtaking scenery of the North.

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