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In this article, we uptake the call for equipping researchers in practicing socially just CER in Indigenous communities through developing a framework for cultural humility in CER. Sparked by our research team’s experience considering the potential of CER to transform and contribute to the needs of both tribal and academic communities, we present cultural humility as a personal precondition for socially just, decolonial CER practice. We use the Inuit cultural practice of nalukataq as a key metaphor to present our framework for cultural humility: listening to the caller, setting your feet, pulling equally, staying in sync.

This work was conducted by the UArctic Thematic Network on Research Analytics and Bibliometrics. It was supported by Global Affairs Canada through the Global Arctic Leadership Initiative.

This work was conducted by the UArctic Thematic Network on Research Analytics and Bibliometrics. It was supported by Global Affairs Canada through the Global Arctic Leadership Initiative.

This work was conducted by the UArctic Thematic Network on Research Analytics and Bibliometrics. It was supported by Global Affairs Canada through the Global Arctic Leadership Initiative.

This work was conducted by the UArctic Thematic Network on Research Analytics and Bibliometrics. It was supported by Global Affairs Canada through the Global Arctic Leadership Initiative.

Spring flood and rain events are pivotal periods to capture mineral element-organic carbon stabilisation in permafrost soils, highlights Catherine Hirst, Earth and Life Institute, UCLouvain, Belgium in this Arctic rivers focus

This chapter considers the current state of change within the Nordic Arctic and some of the challenges it presently confronts. It then moves on to examine the particular vision of the region that has developed within the Nordic community. It discusses some of the forces that have helped to create this Nordic vision of the Arctic and the ways in which many of these same forces continue to a fashion a distinctive Nordic attitude and approach to the area. The essay then addresses some of the leading concerns of the Nordic community regarding the future of the Arctic region. It also considers some of that community’s efforts to collectively plan for the responsible development of its most northern areas. Special attention is given to the role played by the Joint Nordic Initiative on Arctic Research. It takes note of its overall guiding concerns and objectives and considers how the four Nordic Centers of Excellence in Arctic Research may help to build new pathways for scientific investigation in the region and needed policy development. The essay concludes with a brief summary of some of the research initiatives that have been part of the efforts of the Centers and which are explored in greater detail within the subsequent chapters of this volume.

The synoptic and mesoscale meteorological conditions were analyzed for Phase I of the Coordinated Eastern Arctic Experiment (CEAREX) from 17 September 1988 to 7 January 1989. Meteorological observations from a research ship (R/V Polarbjoern), an array of drifting buoys and satellite imagery from DMSP and NOAA satellites were the primary tools for analysis. Several short periods of high cyclone activity followed by long periods of high pressure dominated the weather pattern in the eastern Arctic Ocean from Greenland to Novaya Zemlya for this period. Two case studies are presented. An infrequent cyclogenesis event that formed within a strong baroclinic zone over Arctic pack ice was observed in a "baroclinic leaf on satellite imagery. Ship and drifting buoy observations provided critical insight to the location and intensity of the "leafs" subsequent vertical development to the surface. In the second study, a boundary layer front was observed in the East Greenland Sea by satellite imagery. The front then moved northeast into Fram Strait and a polar low formed at the northern end of the front. The event lasted less than 24 h and would not have been observed except through satellite imagery., http://archive.org/details/meteorologicalfe1094526627, Lieutenant, United States Navy

Presented at the Symposium on the Impacts of an Ice-Diminishing Arctic on Naval & Maritime Operations (4th), June 20-22, 2011, Washington, DC.