Popular energy: A vision of 2030 Nov 16, 2009
(It would be nice if we could add a million wind turbines on Baffin Island to produce hydrogen. . (Kingston Mariner, MA)
Ice addict aims for poles, Everest in one year Nov 15, 2009
He took the polar training in 2009 March with Matty McNair (and myself as an assistant) on Baffin Island. What do you expect will be the toughest part of the South Pole trek this time. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Arctic Lake Sediments Show Warming, Unique Ecological Changes In Recent Decades Oct 28, 2009
The research team reconstructed past climate and environmental changes at the lake on Baffin Island using indicators that included algae, fossil insects and geochemistry preserved in sediment cores that extend back 200,000 years ... The sediment cores were extracted from the bottom of a roughly 100-acre, 30-foot-deep lake near the village of Clyde River on the east coast of Baffin Island, which is several hundred miles west of Greenland ... In addition, a species of diatom, a lake algae that was... (Science Daily)
Elephant stomps to victory Oct 22, 2009
" BREATH TAKING Canadian Paul Nicklen's aerial photograph of a group of narwhals feeding won the Animals in Their Environment category. Breath taking He spotted them while he was flying 30 miles off the Admiralty Inlet ice edge of Northern Baffin Island. Explaining his winning image, Mr Nicklen said: "As with most of my photography the environment is often as important as the subject. "I am constantly trying to get viewers to care as much about the sea ice as the main subject in the photograph."... (BBC News -- Science)
ARCTIC SHIPPING Oct 19, 2009
At Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, development is under way to ship 18 million tons a year of high-grade iron ore through icy waters to steel mills in Europe. Norilsk Nickel, the biggest nickel and palladium producer in the world, operating high in the Russian Arctic, earlier this year completed delivery of its own ice-reinforced fleet. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Artic: Mirror, mirror on the wall Oct 14, 2009
Canada is building new patrol boats and opening a refuelling station on Baffin Island. Still, impressive as it sounds, this build-up is nothing like the old American-Soviet stand-off. (The Economist)
Arctic towns brace for changes Sep 22, 2009
We've had some stormy weather along the Baffin Island coast. We had waves up to 8m high and winds over 40 knots. (CNN)
Residents of tiny Canadian town stand at climate's front line Sep 9, 2009
In Pangnirtung, on Canada's Baffin Island, an unusual rush of meltwater this spring eroded the permafrost holding up two bridges, bringing them down. The mayor hopes Tuk will sit tight for many more winters. (Anchorage Daily News)
Shrinking Bylot Island Glaciers Tell Story Of Climate Change Sep 9, 2009
Most of the other glaciers on Bylot Island, and on nearby Baffin Island, also appear to be melting away. A glacier that shrinks over a period of decades may seem like an overt sign of a warming climate, but other contributors to glacial retreat are less obviously tied to climate change. (Science Daily)
* Canadian PM dives in sub for Arctic Aug 21, 2009
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, left, Defence Minister Peter McKay , center, and Chief of Defence Staff General W.J. Natynczyk sit in a zodiac with the frigate HMCS Toronto in the background on Frobisher Bay off Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic on Wednesday ... On day three of a five-day visit to the far north, Harper took part in a military exercise trumpeting Canadas sovereignty over a large Arctic tract east of Baffin Island, where Russian and US submarines are said to prowl ...... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
PM visits Arctic to back Canada's sovereignty claims Aug 19, 2009
"We know the gaze of other nations is increasingly focused here, in our Arctic. By working to reach this region's full potential, full economic potential, we are strengthening its people and we are strengthening the sovereignty of our country," he said at Iqaluit, at the southern tip of Baffin Island in Canada's northern Nunavut territory. In July, a Russian general announced plans to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first parachute drop at the North Pole by sending paratroopers to the same... (Xinhuanet, China)
FATAL JOURNEY Aug 16, 2009
In June 1611, the arctic sun glittered in the night, its reflection bouncing off the waters between Labrador and Baffin Island. Henry Hudson emerged from his cabin on the Discovery to inspect a commotion -- and found his crew had mutinied. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Baffinland Arranges Facility for Environmental Bonding Aug 1, 2009
The Facility, which matures on December 31, 2012 (the "Maturity Date"), will be used by the Company to cash back current and future environmental bonding requirements under the Company's licences, permits and leases for its Mary River Project on Baffin Island, Nunavut ... Baffinland is a Canadian publicly-traded junior mining company that is focused on its wholly-owned Mary River iron ore deposits located on Baffin Island, Nunavut Territory, Canada. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Another Ice Age? Jul 1, 2009
Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once totally free of any snow in summer; now they are covered year round. Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. (Time.com)
New tracking approach will help protect polar bears Jun 19, 2009
The Queen's team has received up to $500,000 from the federal Ministry of Indian and Northern Affairs to refurbish and upgrade research cabins in the McClintock Channel, west of Baffin Island. Local labourers will be used to haul building materials hundreds of kilometres by skidoo, and set up the cabins. (EurekAlert!)
First Ascent Team #2 Summits Everest! May 27, 2009
Eddie Bauer's mountaineering history: 1953 - K2, Pakistan/China 1953 - Logan & Cook, Yukon 1953 - Inca Highway Expedition, South America 1954 - Makalu, Nepal/Tibet 1955 - Lhotse, Nepal/Tibet *1958 - Gasherbrum I, Pakistan/China 1958 - Antarctica 1958 - Slick-Johnson Snowman Expedition, Nepal 1959 - Eastern Kanjroba Himal, Nepal 1960 - Andes, South America *1960 - Masherbrum, Pakistan/India 1960 - McKinley/Denali, Alaska **1963 - Everest (South Col), Nepal/Tibet *1963 - Everest (West Ridge),... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Leif Ericsson and the Mystery of Vi... May 24, 2009
Some sources will claim that Helluland is the area now known as Baffin Island. Other sources, however, simply state that Helluland could only possibly be Baffin Island. (Suite101.com)
The Great Lakes as a Hydraulic Storage Reservoir May 16, 2009
A study undertaken by Triton Consultants of Vancouver indicated that there might be in excess of 17,000 MW of energy in the westbound tidal current that flows through Hudson Strait in the channels between Salisbury Island and the Foxe Peninsula of Baffin Island. The channel is also a navigation channel. (Energy Pulse, CO)
Bipolar Disorder May 6, 2009
Dexter never really said what motivated him to live for more than 30 years in the extreme north, though he mentioned that living on Baffin Island with the Inuit was more fun than anyone could imagine. Still, I got the sense that despite a sense of humor and calm exterior, Dexter tastes life's flavors only in their extremes, like a Szechuan diner for whom most food has no flavor. (Slate)
Who Decides When To Divert a Commercial Airplane? May 5, 2009
How they decide to divert a plane for medical reasons. - By Brian Palmer - Slate Magazine. (Slate)
Seaglider monitors climate-related ocean circulation in the Arctic Apr 29, 2009
This glider tarried too long became frozen in the ice and was likely subsequently crushed as it was carried with the ice in the Baffin Island Current. . (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Climate change could mean a walk in the Arctic woods Apr 18, 2009
Baffin Island is covered with an austere, Arctic tundra now, but some time later this century it will be capable of sprouting something unusual: a verdant coniferous forest ... Besides Baffin Island, forests will be able to spread to most of the Hudson Bay coastline; Southampton Island, perched at the top of Hudson Bay; much of the Ungava Peninsula in Quebec; and near the northern tip of Labrador, possibly as soon as 2070. (Globe and Mail)
Military scrambled over foreign sub sighting Mar 21, 2009
The vessel was spotted at the northern end of Baffin Island near a hunting camp early on Aug. 9, and the hunters were adamant about what they saw, the military was told. "[They] reported it was very close and [there] does not appear to be any thoughts on the part of the person reporting that it was not a sub," one soldier's e-mail said later that day. (Globe and Mail)
Ce qu'il faut pour vivre (The Necessities of Life): Moving story Feb 23, 2009
Abruptly separated from his wife and two young children on Baffin Island when he's diagnosed with tuberculosis aboard a government ship in 1952, he's sent "down south" to Quebec, arriving after three months at sea, unable to understand or be understood by the nuns and doctors who care for him on the TB ward ... Desperate to have a sense of family, Tivii finds a priest who speaks Inuktitut and expresses a desire to adopt Kaki and bring him home to Baffin Island when he's well again. (Toronto Star)
Inuit, interrupted Feb 20, 2009
On Baffin Island in the summer of 1955, a medical ship is administering tuberculosis tests to Inuit villagers after an outbreak of the disease. Tivli (Ungalaaq), a hunter, tests positive and is immediately separated from his wife and children. (Globe and Mail)
B.C. Premier's crime plan too little, too late Feb 17, 2009
You send them to Baffin Island for 25 years. I'm serious. (Globe and Mail)
Inuit Trails Represent Complex Social Network Spanning Canadian Arctic Feb 16, 2009
(May 17, 2007) When a young graduate student travels this month to Baffin Island in the northeast Canadian Arctic, she not only will be sampling sediments from the bottom of frozen lakes, she also will be educating. (Feb. (Science Daily)
10 glacier getaways Feb 13, 2009
Gazing upon the cliff and glacier-strewn east coast of Canadas Baffin Island, Dr. Garth D. Jackson squints as he locates himself on the tattered map in his hand ... A lot of Baffin Islands valley glaciers are still there, but they dont come as close to the water ... They admired bowhead whales and polar bears from the ships deck, explored the many fjords of Baffin Island and made stops ashore to hike the tundra, look for wildlife and visit local communities. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Crop Connection (5) Feb 8, 2009
Steger and his team will join four Inuit hunters on Feb. 8 on a four-month dogsled expedition across the Canadian Arctic's Baffin Island. Throughout the 1,200-mile journey, the team will upload audio and video images and text to this website, , and communicate findings to online participants around the world. (Agri-View, WI)
