Alaskan Arctic Tundra.

• Main Author: Britton,Max E.
• Other Authors: ARCTIC INST OF NORTH AMERICA WASHINGTON D C
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1973
• Subjects: Soil Mechanics; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; (*SOILS; ALASKA); (*PERMAFROST; ICE; TERRAIN; DRAINAGE; EROSION; MELTING; FREEZING; SWAMPS; GLACIERS; PLANTS(BOTANY); PHOTOSYNTHESIS; ECOLOGY; MICROMETEOROLOGY; HYDROLOGY; MARINE BIOLOGY; ARCTIC REGIONS; SYMPOSIA; *TUNDRA; SOILS; LIMNOLOGY; Arctic; glaciers; Ice; north slope; permafrost; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0769091; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0769091

Alaskan Arctic Tundra is the proceedings volume of the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory (NARL). There are 15 papers in the proceedings -- 7 speeches, 7 technical papers, and an introduction. Each technical paper focuses on a particular field of arctic terrestrial research supported by NARL. The authors reveal the results of their work at NARL and review the efforts of others in their research area. The papers include reviews of permafrost by J. Brown and P. V. Sellmann; North Slope morphology by H. J. Walker; pedology by J. C. F. Tedrow; micrometeorology by J. J. Kelley; limnology by J. E. Hobbie; tundra vegetation by P. O. Johnson and L. L. Tieszen; and Lemming ecology by F. A. Pitelka. (Modified author abstract) Proceedings volume of the Anniversary Celebration of the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory (25th), Alaska Univ., 14 Aug 72.