Program
(Select a title to view an abstract)
Tree Rings and Whale Tales. Gordon Jacoby (Lamont-Doughtery Geological Observatory).
Ice Variability in the Bering Sea. Robert Crane (Pennsylvania State University).
Perspectives on the Environment. Joel James (Gambell).
A Paleogeographic Preface to the Origins of Whaling: The Colder the Better. Owen Mason (University of Alaska, Fairbanks).
Geographic Information Systems Synthesis of Environmental Change in the Western Arctic. John Dixon and David Holt (University of Arkansas).
Bowhead Whales and Their Predation (Howard Braham, moderator)
Some Observations on the Influence of Environmental Conditions on the Success of Hunting Bowhead Whales Off Barrow, Alaska. Craig George (North Slope Borough, Barrow).
Quantifying Subsistence and Cultural Needs for Bowhead Quotas. Stephen Braund (Stephen Braund Associates, Anchorage).
Whaling at Diomede. Orville Ahkinga (Diomede).
Whaling at Wales. Luther Komonaseak (Wales).
Integration of Traditional and Scientific Knowledge About the Bowhead Whale. Lydmila Bogoslavskaya (Institute of Cultural and National Heritage, Moscow)
Cetacean Ecology and Ancient Whaling in the Arctic. Howard Braham (Southern Oregon University).
The Revival of Aboriginal Hunt of Gray Whales in Chukotka. Vladimir Etylyn (Chukotka Science Center).
Prehistoric Whaling Patterns (Roger Harritt, moderator)
Dynamics of Whale Populations and Whaling During the Last Two Millennia in Chukotka. Arkady Savenitsky (Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow).
Ekven: A Prehistoric Whale Hunters' Settlement on the Asian Shore of Bering Strait. Yvon Csonka
(University of Neuchatel, Switzerland).
Re-examining Wales' Role in Bering Strait Prehistory: Some Preliminary Results of Recent Work. Roger Harritt (University of Alaska, Anchorage)
Whaling at Point Hope. Andrew Tooyak, Jr. (Point Hope).
Cetacean Morphometrics in Northwestern Alaska: 1996-2000. Allen McCartney (University of Arkansas).
Bowhead Whale and Gray Whale Selection by Prehistoric and Early Historic Alaskan Whaling Societies.
James Savelle (McGill University, Canada).
Contemporary Whaling Patterns (Maggie Ahmaogak, moderator)
Modern Whaling. Maggie
Ahmaogak (Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, Barrow).
Modern Whaling. Herbert Anungazuk (National Park Service, Anchorage).
The Cost(s) of Sharing? Buying; Sharing; Whaling
- A very Modern Tradition in the Western Arctic. Barbara Bodenhorn
(University of Cambridge).
Inupiat Qalgi: Social Organization, Social Regulation,
and Celebration. Mary Ann Larson (University of Nevada, Reno).
Whaling in Gambell and Ingaliq: Some Perspectives on Whaling Based on
Interviews with Whalers in Two Communities. Carol Jolles (University
of Indiana, Indianapolis).
Synthesis and Discussion of Future Research Directions. Discussants:
John Burns (Burns and Associates) and Henry Huntington (Huntington Consultants).
