Water and Ice-Related Phenomena in the Coastal Region of the Beaufort Sea: Some Parallels between Native Experience and Western Science

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Carmack, Eddy, Macdonald, Robie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2009
• Subjects: Arctic oceanography; Beaufort Shelf; indigenous knowledge; Jimmy Jacobson; northern ecosystems; océanographie de l’Arctique; plateau de Beaufort; connaissances indigènes; écosystèmes du Nord; Arctic; Fleuve Mackenzie; Mackenzie River; Midwinter; Tuktoyaktuk; Beaufort Sea; eskimo*; Mackenzie river
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63094

Information gained through Native experience is combined here with scientific measurements to describe aspects of the wintertime oceanography of the Eskimo Lakes and Mackenzie River delta regions of the Canadian Beaufort Sea. The experiences of Jimmy Jacobson, a Tuktoyaktuk elder who lived in this r...