As a child, I grew up in Alaska. Although I've lived in Florida now for more than twenty years, the Arctic still holds a special fascination for me. In college I did field work in the Canadian Arctic and the ruggedness of the land and the people who live in the far north occasionally finds voice in my fiction.
Inuvik was our home base when I was doing field work in the Mackenzie River Delta for Johns Hopkins. Bart Kreps has some great photographs of the area. Besides trying to stay alive during floods and storms, we studied parasites of snow geese and the beluga. I'll be wriring about it in this section.
Mackenzie River Trip Aug-93 -- Things have changed since I was there.
Polar Pointers -- Many links to Arctic programs.
Today's Canadian Arctic Weather -- Cold!
Arctic Circle -- Natural resources, history and culture
Arctic Archaeology
Arctic Studies Center -- Smithsonian Institution
Frederick A Cook Society -- Polar Exploration
Glacier Research Group
Global Land Ice Monitoring from Space -- Using the world's glaciers to monitor climate change
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
The Tundra Ecosystem Analysis and Mapping Lab
Byrd Polar Research
Office of Polar Programs -- National Science Foundation
The Journey North
Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna
Elisha Kent Kane Historical Society -- history of Arctic Exploration
Arctic Odyssey
Arctic Long Term Ecological Research Site -- Woods Hole
Arctic Environmental Data Directory -- U.S. Geological Survey
Using Satellite RADAR Imagery to Study the Polar Regions
International Permafrost Association -- puts out a newsletter called, oddly enough, Frozen Ground
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Nunavut Directory -- some good images in their touism section
Polar museums -- International listing
Orca
The Beluga Whale
Whale-Watching Web
Terrestrial Mammals of the Arctic
Arctic Animals
Wild Wings -- Track a Snow Goose during migration
Alaska Raptor Rehabilitation Center
The Polar Bear Page
Arctic Wildlife Protfolio from the Smithsonion includes the
Walrus along with
Caribou and Reindeer