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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:
                twin

   How we got around.


                 biify1             
                   
    The Biffy Duck on her nest (she's a King Eider).       


                 car1

     A young caribou.  The local talent.


                lousewort

     Hairy lousewort.  That's the real name.


                view

     The view from my tent, 1:30am.


                hegu

   A herring gull nest in the middle of one of the million shallow ponds.


                ice

 A block of ice on the beach.  You can barely see it, but that's my 12 gauge for scale on the front left.


                jon1

   The master tracker leads us to a polar bear carcass.


                jon2

   The master tracker, his Honda, and the results of tundra scavenging.


                aerial

   East Bay, Southampton Island, early July.


                rtlo

    A red-throated loon on its nest; common and beautiful.


                rutu

 Finally doing some research (not my own).  A RUTU in the hand is worth the hour it took to catch it.


                rutu2

   RUTU nest.


                sun

 A 4-hour sunset during our beach party.  This is about 2:30am.  80 belugas swam by 15 minutes after this.  


                tent

 An old Inuit tent ring, about 800m from the coast.  There was a Bowhead whale skull just west of this.


                gorepoint

 We had to travel 23 kms to get moss, but we got it.  Right there on the ground.  Nice view, too.


                the team

 Team Turnstone (also Team Moss 2003, but Team Turnstone just sounds better).  Me, Deborah Perkins, Jonathan Emiktowt.



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