A three-year PhD studentship is available to investigate the influence of forage quantity and quality, and risk of parasitism on caribou migrating between calving grounds on Victoria Island, Nunavut, Canada and wintering on the mainland, in the vicinity of Bathurst Inlet. NATO allies has enraged local residents who use the area for reindeer grazing. This is an online article from the New York Times describing the toll that caribou migration is taking on Eskimos living in the Seward Peninsula.
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Osherenko, a senior researcher at the Institute of Arctic Studies at Dartmouth College, and her colleagues have documented the unique lifestyle of an indigenous people who call themselves Nenets in a display of photos, books, and artifacts that opened this week. For a preview, see the Hood' web site . It is on display through Fall, 2001. The organization will fund the project on preservation of the population of wild reindeer on Taimyr, the biggest population in Eurasia. The administration of Taimyr autonomus okrug intends to participate in the project.