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Arctic research:
I am working with theoretical, observational, and experimental
approaches to elucidate the mechanisms behind community structure and
function. I
have collected an interesting Arctic food web from Southampton Island to
explore in light of network theory, and am also working on testing Holling's
'world-is-lumpy' (Holling 1992) idea with some community data from throughout
Nunavut.
East Bay, Southampton Island, Summer 2003:
How we got around.
The Biffy Duck on her nest (she's
a King Eider).
A young caribou. The local
talent.
Hairy lousewort. That's the
real name.
The view from my tent, 1:30am.
A herring gull nest in the middle of one of the million
shallow ponds.
A block of ice on the beach. You can barely see
it, but that's my 12 gauge for scale on the front left.
The master tracker leads us to a polar bear carcass.
The master tracker, his Honda, and the results of tundra
scavenging.
East Bay, Southampton Island, early July.
A red-throated loon on its nest; common and beautiful.
Finally doing some research (not my own). A RUTU
in the hand is worth the hour it took to catch it.
RUTU nest.
A 4-hour sunset during our beach
party. This is about 2:30am. 80 belugas swam by 15 minutes after this.
An old Inuit tent ring, about 800m from the coast. There
was a Bowhead whale skull just west of this.
We had to travel 23 kms to get moss,
but we got it. Right there on the ground. Nice view, too.
Team Turnstone (also Team Moss 2003, but Team Turnstone
just sounds better). Me, Deborah Perkins, Jonathan Emiktowt.
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