Physiological Research I in Northern Alaska

• Main Authors: G. Edgar Folk, Jr. L
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1952
• Subjects: Arctic; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.572.9090; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic22-3-315.pdf

Considering field physiology as a whole, long and continued search for informa-tion about the Arctic might be classified informally as: I. The Pemmican and Scurvy Period; 11. The Birdskin and Plantpress Period, and 111. The Experimental Period. In naming the third period I am trying to create a picture of a third wave of workers moving to and over the Arctic Slope with their slide rules and tele-thermometers. One cannot separate the accomplishments of these three periods of work nor limit them in time (Table 1). For instance, the Pemmican and Scurvy Period is still with us today; at the time of writing, this can be illustrated by the British Trans-Arctic Expedition of 1968-69 which is in Class I., yet Wally Herbert and his team also belong in the Experimental Period because they are collecting physiological data.