The following web sites contain information directly related to the material in the course. You are to use them to supplement the material in lecture notes.

1 Climate

• Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
• Arctic Climates: A Primer

2 Permafrost and periglacial geomorphology

• Canadian Permafrost site at the Geological Service of Canada
• More permafrost information
• Ice wedges and pingos
• Periglacial landforms

• Museum of Civilization site
• A history of the Native people of Canada
• Inuit history
• Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic

• Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
• History of Nunavut
• Nunavut Planning Commission
• Inuit Knowledge Centre/Inuit Qaujisarvingat

• The Norse and the Thule
• Martin Frobisher
• National Library
• Northwest Passage
• St. Roch
• Injustice of the Inuit resettlement
• Robert Peary
• More explorers

• Environment Canada Arctic information
• Paper from Stefansson Arctic Institute
• National (US) Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Arctic page
• CAFF (Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna)

7 Climate change in the Arctic

• CBC News - Climate Change in the Arctic
• Importance of sea ice change - NASA
• Special Feature in the journal Nature 12 October 2011

8 Arctic Sovereignty

• CBC Documentary "Battle for the Arctic"

• Science
• Nature
• Above and Beyond
• Nunatsiaq News
• Arctic