Limnology in the North American Arctic and Subarctic

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Rawson, D.S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1953
• Subjects: Animal husbandry; Atmospheric temperature; Breakup; Clouds; Coasts; Domestic sheep; Estuaries; Glaciology; Ice islands; Ice shelves; Measurement; Melting; Oceanography; River discharges; River ice; Rivers; Sea ice; Size; Stream flow; Surveying; Temperature; Thickness; Winds; Banks Island; N.W.T; Ward Hunt Ice Shelf; Nunavut; Yelverton Bay; Kennedy Channel; Massey Sound; Melville; Lake; Labrador; Hamilton Inlet; Backway; The; Greenland; Grinnell Glacier; Arctic; Melville Lake; glacier; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Kennedy channel; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66924

Distribution of arctic lakes is noted and the literature reviewed. General problems in arctic limnology include thermal and trophic classifications, water circulation, productivity as compared with arctic marine waters, and comparison of arctic and alpine lakes. Future research programs should comprise a reconnaissance of lakes in the Canadian Arctic, intensive investigation of selected lakes and a river, expansion of Ungava work, and general studies on distribution of fresh-water fish. Cooperation between limnologists, plant ecologists, and geologists is urged.