Canada's booth at the IPY Conference in Oslo. Credit: Mark Terry. CanadianGeographic.ca
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“You are invited to participate in the 2010 Arctic Aviation Experts International Conference, October 12-13, in Fairbanks, Alaska, organized by the Institute of the North in collaboration with LPS AVIA Consulting.”
“You can expect to join other experts from fields such as Arctic aviation regulation and policy, weather and climate change, as well as airport, airplane and airline industries; academic institutions; Arctic aviation consultants, Northern energy and mineral companies and Arctic communities.”
“We are very excited about the possibility of such a collaborative effort and looking forward to an exciting event, with thorough analysis of the issues, expert opinion and outcomes that reflect the extreme importance of Arctic aviation.”
Even herders riding on reindeer at their winter pastures near Verkhoyansk. Yakutia, Siberia, Russia.
I really love what the UK couple Bryan & Cherry Alexander do. They’ve got a great collection of “cold” pictures on the website ArcticPhoto.co.uk. It’s their stock library. Yeah, they make money on their works, but they are pro photographers. The point is that they are totally devoted to Arctic and Antarctic! That’s what I love in them.
I found their website eight years ago, when I searched pictures from Yakutia’s Arctic. They’ve got amazing photographs of the ordinary people of Verkhoyansk, the 2nd or, maybe, the 1st Pole of Cold in the northern hemisphere. In their Yakutia-related collection you can see hunters, horse herders, reindeer herders, Yakut villagers, Even nomads, etc. I think they were the first international photographers, who managed to visit Verkhoyanks in 90s.
No need to introduce Bryan & Cherry Alexander. They are pretty well-known. Their cold-related works are regular printed in the world’s leading magazines. They’ve got photos from all Arctic regions – Northern Siberia, Greenland, Alaska, Arctic Canada and Arctic Scandinavia. Their power is their ability “to document the lives of the native peoples who live in these remote places.”
If you are interested, what type of people live in the Arctic zone, just check out their collection with photographs of Inuit, Innu, Cree, Dene, Komi, Khanty, Nenets, Dolgan, Nganasan, Even, Evenk, Evenki, Yakut, Chukchi, Sami, Selkup, and Yupik. Even with watermarks they are pretty informative 
And if you wonder how to keep your cameras safe in the extreme cold, read their tips. (more…)
I wish I would be there : ))
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…Or your leg.
This guy was hungry and did not want to share
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Photos from Gambell, Alaska. A Yupik Village on St. Lawrence Island out in the Bering Sea. The tip of the Island is located about 40 miles or so from Siberia.
Birds and animals are in their sets.
This is the preview of Ice Road Truckers TV Show Season 3 by History Channel.
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In Prudhoe Bay, a network of ice roads in the tundra crisscross river systems & open ocean to connect Americas booming North Slope oil fields to dry land. Every winter truckers have less than three months to shuttle critical supplies over the ice. There’s only one way to get to this remote location: 400 miles of ice-covered, mountainous terrain known as The Dalton Highway.
Resource: History
The governments of Canada, Greenland and Nunavut have signed an agreement to protect polar bears in overlapping governmental regions. This is similar to the bilateral deal signed last year between Canada and the U.S. and a separate agreement between Alaska and Russia.
These agreements all set a framework for collaboration on scientific research and monitoring of polar bear population levels.
Renato, I’ve read the following news from The Associated Press on Nov. 22, 2009. Is it true? Confused with all these F/C degrees. Can you give clearification?
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) – It’s been bitter cold in Bettles, a small village 200 miles north of Fairbanks.
The village in the foothills of the Brooks Range recorded a new record low temperature of 47 degrees below zero on Saturday. It was the fifth day in a row a new record low was set in the town, and the sixth day in a row that the temperature was more than 40 below zero. (more…)
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