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DOI: 10.18739/a2mg7fw5p
title: Lower Keflavík: Excavation, Geophysical Prospection and Coring Reports 2016 & 2017

description: These two reports describe the archaeological investigations at the Viking Age Farmstead of Lower Keflavík. This archaeological work confirms the existence of a Viking Age farmstead that was constructed and occupied very soon after the settlement started. The primary occupation of this farmstead seems to have been between the settlement tephra layer (~ 871 AD) and the falling of a dark tephra at the end of the 10th century (~885 AD). The farmstead appears to be abandoned before the Hekla 1104 AD tephra layer fell, although there is a suggestion of later outbuildings, probably associated with the visible farm mound at Keflavík. The methodological results at Lower Keflavík are also significant. In this field, several of the major modern conductivity meters were employed, including the DualEM, the CMD Explorer, and the CMD Mini (Damiata, et al. 2017). The results of the additional coring and test pit suggest that at Lower Keflavík, the CMD Mini, using a transect spacing of 0.25 meter (m) with an effective sampling rate of 0.06 m and relying on the in-phase component (IP) of the longest dipole (1 m) is the most efficacious for highlighting the structure of the shallowly buried Viking-Age farmstead.
DOI: 10.18739/a2930nw0h
title: Skagafjörður Church and Settlement Survey (SCASS) coring and farmstead datasets 2015-2018.

description: This is a dataset of cores and farmstead sizes at different times, taken as part of an archaeological settlement survey on Hegranes, in Skagafjörður, Northwest Iceland. This work is part of the larger Skagafjörður Church and Settlement Survey (SCASS). Farmsteads were investigated archaeologically with a program of cores. The results of the coring were used to estimate their size at various times by using the ubiquitous tephra layers. The two tephra layers used to measure site size were H1 (AD 1104), and 1300. The Skagafjörður Church and Settlement Survey (SCASS) is a joint archaeological project of the Skagafjörður Heritage Museum and the Fiske Center at UMass Boston. The archaeological work seeks to determine if the settlement pattern of the 9th-century colonization of Iceland affected the development of the religious and economic institutions that dominated the 14th century. Blank cells or cells with N/A indicate that the researcher did not fill in the data or that there was an instrument failure and only partial data was retained. The csv files use UTF-8 encoding.
DOI: 10.18739/a2x35g
title: Babe Creek Side Slope Tree Ring Data [Wolken, J.]

description: Tree ring data from the International Tree Ring Data Bank and World Data Center for Paleoclimatology archives. Data include raw treering measurements of annual ring width for multiple treering samples collected from the Side slope location of the Babe Creek toposequence. Dated series were visually and then statistically crossdated with the program COFECHA.
DOI: 10.18739/a2td2h
title: Babe Creek Toe Slope Tree Ring Data [Wolken, J.]

description: Tree ring data from the International Tree Ring Data Bank and World Data Center for Paleoclimatology archives. Data include raw treering measurements of annual ring width for multiple treering samples collected from the Toe slope location of the Babe Creek toposequence to study the climate-growth relationships of black spruce. Dated series were visually and then statistically crossdated with the program COFECHA.
DOI: 10.18739/a2v65w
title: Babe Creek Summit Tree Ring Data [Wolken, J.]

description: Tree ring data from the International Tree Ring Data Bank and World Data Center for Paleoclimatology archives. Data include raw treering measurements of annual ring width for multiple treering samples collected from the Summit location of the Babe Creek toposequence. Dated series were visually and then statistically crossdated with the program COFECHA.
DOI: 10.18739/a2zw7g
title: Babe Creek Valley Bottom Tree Ring Data [Wolken, J.]

description: Data include raw treering measurements of annual ring width for multiple treering samples collected from the Valley bottom location of the Babe Creek toposequence to study the climate-growth relationships of black spruce. Dated series were visually and then statistically crossdated with the program COFECHA.
DOI: 10.18739/a2pd3n
title: Carbon isotope data from modern and fossil tree rings

description: Bulk carbon isotope measurements made at high-resolution across modern and fossil tree rings are reported. Fossil data are reported as the average of 3 replicate measurements. More details on the methods and samples can be found in these publications. Modern data were published in: Schubert, B. A., and Jahren, A. H., 2011, Quantifying seasonal precipitation using high-resolution carbon isotope analyses in evergreen wood: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 75, no. 22, p. 7291-7303; doi:7210.1016/j.gca.2011.7208.7002. Fossil data were published in: Schubert, B. A., Jahren, A. H., Eberle, J. J., Sternberg, L. S. L., and Eberth, D. A., 2012, A summertime rainy season in the Arctic forests of the Eocene: Geology, v. 40, no. 6, p. 523-526.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12950913
title: Trend of COVID-19 spreads and status of household handwashing practice and its determinants in Bangladesh – situation analysis using national representative data

description: The objective of the study was to assess the prevalence and factors associated with household (HH) handwashing practice in Bangladesh and draw a trend of COVID-19 spreads and compare that with the countrywide HH handwashing practice. The study is based on the two national representative publicly available datasets (MICS 2019, and confirmed cases of COVID-19). Of 61,209 (weighted) HH, the overall prevalence of HH handwashing was found 56.3%, and the prevalence was significantly varied across the socio-economic status of the HH. Map comparison suggested that the gradual increasing trend of COVID-19 cases in areas where HH handwashing practice is low. The northern part of Bangladesh had the highest handwashing practice, whereas it had less effected by COVID-19 cases. However, central Bangladesh had the hardest hit by COVID-19 cases, and it had around 50% handwashing practice coverage. Large-scale observational study is necessary to establish the causality.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12950913.v2
title: Trend of COVID-19 spreads and status of household handwashing practice and its determinants in Bangladesh – situation analysis using national representative data

description: The objective of the study was to assess the prevalence and factors associated with household (HH) handwashing practice in Bangladesh and draw a trend of COVID-19 spreads and compare that with the countrywide HH handwashing practice. The study is based on the two national representative publicly available datasets (MICS 2019, and confirmed cases of COVID-19). Of 61,209 (weighted) HH, the overall prevalence of HH handwashing was found 56.3%, and the prevalence was significantly varied across the socio-economic status of the HH. Map comparison suggested that the gradual increasing trend of COVID-19 cases in areas where HH handwashing practice is low. The northern part of Bangladesh had the highest handwashing practice, whereas it had less effected by COVID-19 cases. However, central Bangladesh had the hardest hit by COVID-19 cases, and it had around 50% handwashing practice coverage. Large-scale observational study is necessary to establish the causality.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6407308
title: A taxonomic revision and a review of the biology of the North American seed-harvester ant genus Veromessor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae)

description: Detailed collection and locality information for all material examined in the manuscript for "A taxonomic revision and a review of the biology of the North American seed-harvester ant genus <em>Veromessor </em>(Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae)". File "Robert_A_Johnson_collection.xlsx" contains records in the senior author's collection and "Veromessor_specimens_examined.xlsx" include records from all other collections. The two files differ in headers, format.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6407307
title: A taxonomic revision and a review of the biology of the North American seed-harvester ant genus Veromessor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae)

description: Detailed collection and locality information for all material examined in the manuscript for "A taxonomic revision and a review of the biology of the North American seed-harvester ant genus <em>Veromessor </em>(Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae)". File "Robert_A_Johnson_collection.xlsx" contains records in the senior author's collection and "Veromessor_specimens_examined.xlsx" include records from all other collections. The two files differ in headers, format.
DOI: 10.18739/a2ft8dk9f
title: Alaska regional population

description: Stata dataset of population for Alaska boroughs and other regions, 1969 to 2014 (with gaps).
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6326353
title: VISIONS-1 rocket experiment: Sounding rocket observations in the auroral zone at night following a substorm.

description: These data files support the Frontiers in Astrophysics and Space Sciences article by Rowland, D. E., et al. (2022) entitled “Imaging Low-Energy Ion Outflow in the Auroral Zone”.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6326352
title: VISIONS-1 rocket experiment: Sounding rocket observations in the auroral zone at night following a substorm.

description: These data files support the Frontiers in Astrophysics and Space Sciences article by Rowland, D. E., et al. (2022) entitled “Imaging Low-Energy Ion Outflow in the Auroral Zone”.
DOI: 10.18739/a26970018
title: Arctic Alaska population, electricity & climate

description: Data used for modeling and analysis in Hamilton, White, Lammers & Myerchin (2011) Population & Environment DOI 10.1007/s11111-011-0145-1
DOI: 10.18739/a2xw47x6x
title: Arctic Alaska: A Reference Library for 43 Towns and Villages

description: Compilation of original graphs showing demographic, temperature and precipitation trends in 43 Arctic Alaska communities, together with qualitative information from other sources on their vulnerability to erosion. Citation: Kei Saito, Lawrence Hamilton, Richard Lammers, Stanley Glidden (2015): Arctic Alaska: A Reference Library for 43 Towns and Villages. UCAR/NCAR - CISL - ACADIS. Dataset. http://dx.doi.org/10.5065/D6930R6J
DOI: 10.18739/a2pc2t98r
title: Bering Strait socio-economic organization, ca.2000 to 200 BP: A view from Port Clarence, Alaska, 2013-2017

description: The goals of the Port Clarence project were to investigate changing subsistence practices and related settlement patterns in the Bering Strait region over the last 1000 years, during a period of significant socio-economic and environmental change. To achieve these goals we conducted two years of fieldwork at Point Spencer, excavating one previously reported village site (TEL-8) and surveying to identify and investigate several other sites in the surrounding area. We collected and analyzed animal bones, tools, and radiocarbon data to reconstruct past diet, season of site occupation, and settlement patterns at TEL-8 and across the local area. We also conducted a geoarchaeological study focused primarily on establishing local coastal landscape evolution. Prior research conducted in the 1940s suggested that we would encounter pre-1000 year old occupations at TEL-8, but excavation at the site did not locate any cultural materials dating before the Thule period (ca. 1000-250 years ago). The other sites in the surrounding area all date to the Thule period. Despite these challenges, our work makes several important contributions to Arctic archaeological research and to research on maritime hunter-gatherers. Specifically, this project contributes new data on hunting and fishing activities over an approximately 1000 year period; zooarchaeological research in this region is limited so our new analysis provides important insights into past subsistence activities. Settlement data suggests that local occupation intensified during the late pre-contact period, over the last 500 years, although additional research is needed to further evaluate the patterns we identified. These findings differ from what is currently known about late pre-contact settlement patterns in northwest Alaska. Lastly, geoarchaeological research established the potential of other regional landforms for archaeological sites dating both before and after the Neoeskimo transition beginning around 1000 years ago.
DOI: 10.18739/a2jm23h3h
title: BEST Nelson Island History Presentation at 2009 PI Meeting

description: The 2009 Bering Sea Project Principal Investigators Meeting was held in Girdwood, Alaska from October 13 to 15, 2009. This presentation, co-authored by Mark John and Ann Fienup-Riordan, is an update of The Nelson Island Natural and Cultural History Project and was presented at the meeting.
DOI: 10.18739/a2dv1cp88
title: Collaborative Research: Gender, Environment, and Change: Exploring Shifiting Roles in an Inupiat Community

description: This collaborative environmental anthropology study provides a detailed ethnographic picture of the ways in which Alaska Native communities are responding to global challenges while at the same time retaining and practicing their core indigenous values in the face of many uncertainties. This project uses a participatory and critical feminist framework to explore the gendered and generational facets of change and specifically focuses on the pathways that women, men, and families forge to live well in Barrow. By focusing on the agentive ways in which Iñupiaq women and men contribute to maintaining healthy communities and environments as well as the constraints impeding this process, we avoid a top-down analysis of global political, environmental, economic, and cultural change. Our approach recognizes women and men as contributors to strategies for healing and strength and as empowered individuals enhancing community-life by following a variety of different pathways. Thus, this research also provides an important opportunity to explore applied concerns in anthropology and resource management by valuing women’s and men’s knowledge and community roles during a time of intense environmental shifts, market fluxes, and cultural heritage revival. This study also contributes to literature on decolonizing methodologies for research within the field of anthropology and the social sciences more generally. By focusing on community strength and well-being, this project also demonstrates the way in which participatory and collaborative social science research designs are critical to understanding strategies to cope with uncertainty. A number of digital recordings and transcripts from project participants will be archived at the Iñupiat Heritage Center, part of the Department of Iñupiat History, Language, and Culture.
DOI: 10.18739/a2930nw5x
title: Collaborative Research: Using Visual Methods to Engage Indigenous Youth and Community Members in Cross-Site, International Analysis: A Methodological Study

description: The proposed five-site data analysis meeting will actively engage community members in international and cross-site analysis of data generated through the National Science Foundation Circumpolar Indigenous Pathways to Adulthood (CIPA) study. Approximately 150 Indigenous people from Siberia, Norway, Canada and Alaska have been actively guiding this International Polar Year study. The current project will further involve some of these youth and elders in cross-site analysis and knowledge production. More specifically, Yupik, Inupiaq, Inuit, Sami and Eveny young people from each participating community will produce digital montages that represent key cross-site findings. Sharing these productions at the cross-site meeting will invite dialogue across communities about key aspects of daily life that are evident (or noticeably absent from) the images. The adult and elder community co-researchers will be able to draw on and reflect upon their own life experiences in relation to the youth montages (and in relation to historic perspectives from older community members) from other communities. Because of the variant pace of social change across the participating communities, this project has an unprecedented opportunity for insight into mechanisms impacting everyday youth resilience?the processes by which they get through difficulties--through the reflections of Sami, Inuit, Yupik, Inupiaq and Eveny elders, adults and youth. We believe this method provides a unique opportunity to engage local people in cross-cultural, cross-national meaning-making. The interdisciplinary research team assembled here brings together investigators from social and medical anthropology, psychology, public health, and education. These diverse perspectives, including those of the indigenous community members?should provide insights into the effect of diverse educational, social, and political policies on the experiences of Indigenous youth as they become adults, and, specifically, into the ways human systems are responding to social transformation in the Arctic. To our knowledge, this study is the first of its kind to utilize visual elicitation techniques to facilitate international, interdisciplinary and community-engaged data analysis.
DOI: 10.18739/a21n7xp0t
title: Collaborative Research: Water, Energy, and Food Security in the North: Synergies, tradeoffs, and building community capacity for sustainable futures (Sustainable Futures North)

description: The Sustainable Futures North project addresses the question of whether synergies can be found among the related goals of food security, water security, energy security, and resource development in the North American Arctic. Historically, development in one or more of these areas has presented trade-offs in others; for example, petroleum exploration and development is often associated with negative impacts on traditional subsistence species and practices. Similarly, residents of the Bristol Bay region of Alaska are currently embroiled in a debate over the risks and benefits of developing of a copper and gold mine, which would ostensibly provide jobs and economic development opportunities, at the headwaters of a watershed that supports the world?s largest sockeye salmon run. With an eye toward eliciting best practices for community development and resource management that target synergies rather than trade-offs, we plan to combine integrated regional assessments of water, food, and energy systems in three regions of the North: Bristol Bay (Alaska), Baffin Island (Canada), and Kotzebue Sound (Alaska), where people and communities share a variety of challenges relating to climate change, socioeconomic change, and industrial development. The research methods that make up our interdisciplinary toolkit include key informant interviews, integration and analysis of secondary datasets, climate change downscaling, engineering best practice and gap analysis, and rural-urban network analysis. We will link these qualitative and quantitative research methods to explore cause-and-effect relationships between development activities and societal and environmental changes, and will integrate social and ecological datasets with climate change scenarios to project future community responses to climatic and environmental change. The findings of this research will inform a collaborative education and outreach program designed to build capacity through workforce development, STEM internships, and post-secondary curricula and programs in environmental management and engineering.
DOI: 10.18739/a2s46h71s
title: Doctoral Dissertation Research: Centennial Scale Human Ecodynamics at Skutustadir Iceland

description: This research project, will support the PhD research of doctoral student M. Hicks under the supervision of Dr. T. McGovern. The project Centennial Scale Human Ecodynamics at Skútustaðir will contribute to the understanding of long-term economic and ecological practices in N. Iceland by examining the archaeological record of a district-center farm, Skútustaðir, first settled during Iceland's initial settlement period (871-950 CE) and occupied through to the present. During this farm's long history, inhabitants experienced economic consolidation, colonialism, changes in land tenure and land use in addition to fluctuations in their natural environment including climactic change and soil depletion. These factors interacted directly with subsistence practices (McGovern et al. 2007, McGovern et al. 2006). Long term sites such as Skútustaðir would have been the social and economic backbone of their regions. Their study is crucial to generating the long term picture of settlement history, ecological history and social history in this region though time. Theoretical foundations of this research include Historical Ecology in archaeology as laid out by Carole Crumley (1994) with its concern for historical context and emphasis on long term investigations of landscapes changing through time while dialectically influenced by human activity. The project's main method is zooarchaeology which is particularly relevant in Iceland as the vast majority of dietary subsistence and economic transactions were based on animal products. The proposed field research includes the excavation of additional zooarchaeological material (animal bones) as evidence of subsistence practices from the middle ages to complete the chronology of this long term site. The research proposed includes the analysis of dated samples of eggshell already excavated- evidence of a sustainable long term tradition of egg harvesting at Skútustaðir a tradition with social and ecological dimensions in the most diverse waterfowl habitat on earth (Lake Mývatn). Archival work proposed will provide a rich social context for archaeological remains.
DOI: 10.18739/a2ww7715m
title: Demographic, migration, and climate data from Arctic towns and villages in Alaska, 1990-2016

description: Arctic demography is commonly viewed on a large scale, across entire regions such as states, counties or boroughs. The data archived here contain annual time series for each of 43 Arctic Alaska towns and villages. Variables include annual estimates of population, natural increase (births minus deaths), and net migration (inmigration minus outmigration) for each place. Graphics depicting community population dynamics from 1990 to 2016 have been published online in connection with this research, and show that seemingly comparable places even within one borough can take widely divergent paths. Birth rates generally exceed death rates, although both are high. Year-to-year and place-to-place variations are dominated not by natural increase, but by differences in net migration. Population changes influence demand for resources such as water, electricity, fuel, and capital improvements, and probably for subsistence resources as well. Migration rates provide sensitive indicators that integrate diverse internal and external pressures. Recent analyses used these data to test for evidence of "climigration," or enhanced outmigration from places facing serious threats from climate-linked erosion. The data also provide information for comparative studies involving other far Northern regions; and for detecting possible impacts from economic events such as the 2008 recession. Example publications showing use of these data, with more background and sources, include: Hamilton, L.C., K. Saito, P.A. Loring, R.B. Lammers &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; H.P. Huntington. 2016. “Climigration? Population and climate change in Arctic Alaska.” Population and Environment 38(2):115–133. doi: 10.1007/s11111-016-0259-6 Hamilton, L.C., D.M. White, R.B. Lammers &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; G. Myerchin. 2012. “Population, climate and electricity use in the Arctic: Integrated analysis of Alaska community data.” Population and Environment 33(4):269–283. doi: 10.1007/s11111-011-0145-1