A Unique International Polar Year Contribution: Lucien Turner, Capelin

• Main Authors: Climatic Change, M. J Dunbar
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Key words; capelin; Mallotus villosus. Ungava Bay; International Polar Year; Koksoak River; Ungava Bay; Arctic; IPY; North Atlantic; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.490.2397; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic36-2-204.pdf

ABSTRACT. Lucien McShann Turner (1847-19O9). one of the most able field naturalists in North America in his day, spent two years (1882-84) at Fort Chimo, Qudbec, as meteorological observer for the U.S. Army Signal Service during the first International Polar Year. Among his many ac-tivities over and...