Documents

Historical References to Ice Conditions Along The Beaufort Sea Coast of Alaska. Lewis H. Shapiro, Ronald C. Metzner, and Kenneth Toovak. Scientific Report supported by NOAA Contract 03-5-022-55, Task No. 6. Fairbanks, AK: Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1979.

Alaska Shorefast Ice: Interfacing Geophysics With Local Sea Ice Knowledge and Use. Matthew L. Druckenmiller. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Alaska Fairbanks, August 2011.

Alaskan Eskimo Exploitation of the Summer Sea Ice Environment. Richard K. Nelson. Report to the Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory, Contract Number AF 41 (609)-3200. Fort Wainwright, AK: Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory, Aerospace Medical Division, Air Force Systems Command, 1968.

Arctic PASSION is a European-funded circumpolar project aimed at creating an integrated pan-Arctic observing system for scientific and community-based monitoring of environmental change, with the integration of Indigenous and local knowledge. It provides streamlined access to arctic data systems and services. Arctic PASSION is a project of the Alfred-Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany.

Arctic Sea Ice Trafficability: New Strategies for a Changing Icescape. Dyre Oliver Dammann. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Alaska Fairbanks, August 2017.

Arctic Thaw: The People of the Whale in a Changing Climate (http://peterlourie.com/upcomingnorthpole.htm) is a children's book by Peter Lourie who also developed the Arctic Stories website with video storytelling of voices from the Arctic.

“Assessing the Shorefast Ice: Iñupiat Whaling Trails off Barrow, Alaska.” Matthew L. Druckenmiller, Hajo Eicken, John C. George, and Lewis Brower. In SIKU: Knowing Our Ice, Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use, edited by Igor Krupnik, Claudio Aporta, Shari Gearheard, Gita J. Laidler, Lene Kielsen Holm, New York: Springer, 2010, pp. 203-228.

For 54 years, Bob and Carrie Uhl maintained a subsistence lifestyle at Cape Krusenstern near Kotzebue, Alaska. Summers were spent in a tent (and later in a tiny cabin) on the beach at Sisualik, where they were able to fish and hunt marine mammals. In the winter, they moved inland to a more sheltered cabin where trees provided wood for heat, a stream running under the winter ice provided water, and moose and caribou provided food. Bob kept a daily journal of resource observations of the Cape Krusenstern area from 1990 to 2004. These journals provide an important long-term record of things like the timing of freeze-up and break-up of the ice of Kotzebue Sound and Hotham Inlet, the safety of the ice trail between Sisualik and Kotzebue, the changing ice conditions, and daily temperature and winds. Bob generously gave permission for the National Park Service to edit and publish his journals in order to better share this invaluable insight into a vanishing lifestyle. They are available through the Cape Krusenstern National Monument website.

Characteristics of Winds, Currents, and Sea Ice Motion near Barrow, Alaska. A small poster compiled by the Sea Ice Group at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in collaboration with Hokkaido University of Japan summarizing observations from October 2009 to July 2015 of the effects of winds and ocean currents on sea ice motion near the coast of Utqiaġvik, Alaska (formerly known as Barrow). Primary authors are Josh Jones, Andy Mahoney, Hajo Eicken, Yasu Fukamachi, Kay Ohshima, Craig George, and Billy Adams.

"Effects of Changing Sea Ice on Marine Mammals and Subsistence Hunters in Northern Alaska from Traditional Knowledge Interviews." Henry Huntington, Lori Quakenbush, Mark Nelson. Biology Letters. Vol. 12, Issue 8 (August 2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0198, accessed August 30, 2017.

Experts Workshops to Comparatively Evaluate Coastal Currents and Ice Movement in the Northeastern Chukchi Sea; Barrow and Wainwright, Alaska, March 11-15, 2013. Report edited by Mark Johnson, Hajo Eicken, Matthew Druckenmiller, and Richard Glenn. University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, 2014.
With contributions on Iñupiaq knowledge from: Billy Adams, Linda Agnassaga, Ransom Agnasagga, Raymond Aguvluk Jr., Ben Ahmaogak Jr., Mary Ellen Ahmaogak, Roy Ahmaogak, Cora Akpik, Max Akpik Sr., Marjorie Angashuk, Jim Allen Aveoganna Jr., Frank Bester Jr., Lewis Brower, Fred Ekak, Craig George, Charlie Hopson, Nora Itta, Artie Kittick, Joe Mello Leavitt, Alva Nashoalook Jr., Eli Nukapigak, Thomas Nukapigak, Tommy Olemaun, Margaret Opie, Billy Oyagak, Enoch Oktollik, Ronald Oviok, Ida Panik, Jack Panik, Billy Blair Patkotak, Rossman Peetok, Julius Rexford Sr., Bob Shears, Michael Tagarook.

Field Techniques for Sea Ice Research. Edited by Hajo Eicken. Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska Press, 2009.

Harvest of the Sea: Coastal Subsistence in Modern Wainwright. Richard K. Nelson. A Report for the North Slope Borough's Coastal Management Program. Barrow, AK: North Slope Borough, 1981.

Subsistence Hunters and Scientists Working Together to Help Alaskan Coastal Communities Adapt to a Changing Climate is an article by Lisa Sheffield Guy of the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, May 16, 2017. It describes how the Sea Ice For Walrus Outlook (SIWO) project provides weekly reports on spring sea ice and weather conditions that integrate scientific and local knowledge into a tool that is used by both groups, and provides links to the SIWO and other related websites.

"Ice conditions on Alaska’s Beaufort Sea Coast:  Extending the Observations."  Ron Metzner and Lewis Shapiro. Northern Engineer, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 22-27, 35.

Ikaaġvik Sikukun is a research project that couples state-of-the-art geophysical observations from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) with a community-engaged research approach to bridge scientific and indigenous understanding of sea ice change in the Alaska Arctic. The research team is a partnership between academic researchers and the Native Village of Kotzebue. The study plan begins and ends with the involvement of community members to help craft research questions, collect observations and synthesize research findings. The project addresses key questions concerning the mechanisms and impacts of rapid changes taking place in the Arctic while ensuring that answers incorporate traditional ways of knowing and are relevant to local needs. Ultimately, the findings will contribute to predictive assessments of the changing cryosphere of Kotzebue Sound, and the implications of such change for the ecology and the Iñupiaq way of life that is dependent upon it. 

Insights from Coastal Arctic Indigenous Observers: Perspectives from Community-based Observers on the Impacts of Rapid and Unprecedented Arctic Environmental Change. A digital StoryMap put together by Roberta Tuurraq Glenn-Borade as part of her master's thesis at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, January 2023. This StoryMap was designed to communicate impacts on coastal Arctic Indigenous communities from the perspective of Indigenous people. These impacts are documented through routine observations made by a network of local observers who work with the Alaska Arctic Observatory and Knowledge Hub (AAOKH) at the International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Landfast Sea Ice Formation and Deformation near Barrow, Alaska: Variability and Implications for Ice Stability. Joshua M. Jones. Master's Thesis, University of Alaska Fairbanks, December 2013.

Barrow File Library Accessions List, Naval Arctic Research Laboratory (NARL), Barrow, Alaska,  as of 1 April 1970. Bibliograhy of publications related to scientific research conducted at NARL and/or by NARL scientists up to April 1970. Available at Elmer E. Rasmuson Library and the Keith B. Mather Library at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

"Observations of a Changing Ice Environment in Northern Alaska." Poster by Karen Brewster presented at Alaska Marine Science Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska, January 2018. Poster with photos and quotes summarizing results of the Northern Alaska Sea Ice Project Jukebox, which includes oral history recordings made between 1978 and 2017 with local experts discussing observations of changing coastal ice conditions in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, how changes in the sea ice are impacting subsistence and marine resources, and how climate change is affecting the ecosystems and the local people.

Small Pictorial Glossary of Sea Ice Terms and Evolution was created in 1999 by Dr. Hajo Eicken of the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks for a course he was teaching on sea-ice geophysics. It provides a short illustrated overview of some of the most important sea-ice terms and processes he felt it was important for his students to understand.

Qiñiqtuagaksrat Utuqqanaat Iñuuniaġniŋisiqun: The Traditional Land Use Inventory for the Mid-Beaufort Sea, Volume 1. Barrow, AK: North Slope Borough, Commission on History and Culture, 1980.

Time series maps and bar graphs showing how the Arctic Ocean sea ice cover for different years and months compares to averages from 1979 to 2015 on the Satellite Observations of Arctic Change website from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).

A collection of 67 videotapes of Dr. Hajo Eicken’s Sea Ice Field Course in Barrow, Alaska titled: "Field Techniques for Sea Ice Research International Polar Year 2007-2009.” Recorded by Maya Salganek. Available at the Alaska Film Archives, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks as AAF-13001 through AAF-13067. For more information, see the catalog record for the collection in the library's on-line catalog.

The Sea Ice Glossary is a website by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSDIC) that provides definitions and explanations of general and scientific terms related to sea ice.

A database and portal providing access to current scientific information, articles, maps, graphics, and educational material about Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. The site was created and is maintained by: the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research and their Climate Office for Polar Regions and Sea Level Rise based in Bremerhaven, Germany; the Helmholtz Research Initiative REKLIM (Regional Climate Change and Humans) network of nine research centres; and the Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP) at the University of Bremen.

SIKU: Knowing Our Ice, Documenting Inuit Sea-Ice Knowledge and Use, edited by Igor Krupnik, Claudio Aporta, Shari Gearheard, Gita J. Laidler, Lene Kielsen Holm, New York: Springer, 2010.

“The Human Geography of Arctic Sea Ice,” Special Issue of Polar Geography, edited by Amy Lauren Lovecraft, Vol. 36, Nos. 1-2, March-June 2013.

"Toward an Integrated Coastal Sea-Ice Observatory: System Components and a Cast Study at Barrow, Alaska." Matthew Druckenmiller, Hajo Eicken, Mark Johnson, Daniel Pringle, and Christina Williams. Cold Regions Science and Technology, Vol. 56, Issues 2-3 (May 2009), pp. 61-72.

"Traversing Sea Ice - Linking Surface Roughness and Ice Trafficability Through SAR Polarimetry and Interferometry." Dyre Oliver Dammann, Hajo Eicken, Andrew Mahoney, Eyal Saiet, Franz Meyer, and John C. “Craig” George. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Vol.11, No. 2 (February 2018), pp. 416-433.

Whaling Season: A Year in the Life of an Arctic Whale Scientist (http://peterlourie.com/books/WhalingSeason.htm) is a children's book by Peter Lourie who also developed the Arctic Stories website with video storytelling of voices from the Arctic.