Nutarniq: Uniting the arctic community with a wireless arctic network for circumpolar communications

Polar Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 43-78

  Beck, Richard A ^a   Eisner, Wendy ^b   Hinkel, Kenneth ^b   Pesanti, Hillary ^c   Ellis, Ben ^c   Beiswenger, Elizabeth ^c   Parker, Walter ^c   Treadwell, Mead ^c   Smith, Steve ^d   Krogh, Lars ^e   Hansen, Klaus Georg ^f   Peskov, Vladislav ^g  

^a CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c ALASKA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^f Sisimiut Museum   (Greenland)

^g Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLAR REGION; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 24344469716     PISSN: 1088937X     EISSN: 19390513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/789610165     Document Type: Article

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