When the Weather is Uggianaqtuq Inuit Observations of Environmental Change

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2009
• Subjects: EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > ICE GROWTH/MELT; IN SITU/LABORATORY INSTRUMENTS > PHOTON/OPTICAL DETECTORS > VISUAL OBSERVATIONS; OTHER; UNKNOWN; Arctic; Canada; Clyde River; Nunavut; Baffin; Baker Lake; inuit; inuktitut; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:469f7ada-3dd9-49a3-9b3a-998fe67ee13e

Uggianaqtuq (pronounced OOG-gi-a-nak-took) is a North Baffin Inuktitut word that means to behave unexpectedly, or in an unfamiliar way. From the perspective of many hunters and elders in the Arctic, the weather has been uggianaqtuq in recent years. In this interactive, multi-media CD-ROM, Inuit from...