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Northern Granular Resources Bibliographic Database (ASTIS)
References for 2,200 reports on coastal and offshore granular resources (gravel, sand, and crushed stone) in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
Subjects: Crushed rock, Sand, Gravel, Environmental sciences
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- Free - Open Access
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- Reference only
- Open Access
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- Health Sciences
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
Nunavik Bibliography (ASTIS)
Contains 8,000 records of publications dealing with various facets of northern Quebec, including geoscience, life sciences, humanities, and social science.
Subjects: Social sciences, Environmental sciences, Indigenous peoples, Earth sciences, Nunavik, Northern Quebec
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- Free - Open Access
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- Open Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Engineering and Technology
- Natural Sciences
- Health Sciences
Nunavut Database (ASTIS)
Descriptions of nearly 35,000 grey literature publications (reports by government agencies, Inuit organizations, universities, and industry), journal articles, conference proceedings, theses, and books on Nunavut, the Canadian Arctic, and the circumpolar Arctic.
Subjects: Nunavut, Social sciences, Environmental sciences, Inuit, Circumpolar Arctic
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- Free - Reference only
- Free - Open Access
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- Open Access
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- Natural Sciences
- Health Sciences
- Humanities and Social Sciences
Photographs: Antarctica and expeditions of various explorers (BAnQ)
These photographs, which range from 1913 to 1941 and each of which is accompanied by a typed card describing the circumstances surrounding its creation, relate to the Antarctic frenzy that swept the world at the turn of the 20th century. Several photographs show the American expedition led by the United States Antarctic Service and coordinated by Admiral Richard E. Byrd during World War II. It includes photographs of Robert Falcon Scott’s 1910-1913 Southern Expedition, which was carried out for the purposes of scientific research and geographic explorations of the South Pole.
Subjects: Environmental sciences, South Pole, Pack ice, Geosciences, Environmental changes, Exploration, Sea ice
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- Free - Open Access
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- Open Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
Russian Arctic Seas: Navigational conditions and accidents
Bilingual (Russian–English) accounts of activities in the Russian Arctic seas that have resulted in accidents. Specifically, the physical environment and navigation issues in the Kara, Laptev, East Siberian, and Chukchi Seas. Half of the book is devoted to detailed descriptions of nearly 100 accidents caused by heavy ice conditions since 1900. The accidents are categorized according to type and cause, e.g., shipwrecks, forced drift (ice jets in one particular case), overwintering, and various types of vessel damage.
Subjects: Oceanography, Russia, Earth sciences, Environmental sciences
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- Reserved Access
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- Reserved Access
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- Engineering and Technology
Sahtu Settlement Area Database (ASTIS)
Some 2,100 records describing grey literature (reports by government agencies, Indigenous organizations, universities, and industry), journal articles, conference proceedings, theses, and books resulting from research projects in the Sahtu region in the Northwest Territories’ central MacKenzie Valley.
Subjects: Social sciences, Indigenous peoples, Northwest Territories, Sahtu, Environmental sciences
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- Free - Reference only
- Free - Open Access
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- Reference only
- Open Access
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- Engineering and Technology
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
- Health Sciences