The joint Arctic weather stations : : science and sovereignty in the high Arctic, 1946-1972 / / Daniel Heidt, P. Whitney Lackenbauer.
This is the first systematic account of the Joint Arctic Weather Stations (JAWS), a collaborative science program between Canada and the United States that created a distinctive state presence in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago from 1946-1972. These five meteorological stations, constructed at Eurek...
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Place / Publishing House: | Calgary, Alberta : : University of Calgary Press,, [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half Title Page
- Series Page
- Full Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Acronyms
- Introduction
- The State: Looking Down on JAWS
- Experiencing JAWS: Views from Below
- Overview of the Book
- 1 | Background: The Long Build-Up
- Meteorology as Science in Nineteenth-Century North America
- Meteorology and Arctic Stations
- Weather, the Great War, and the Air Age
- The Second World War, Meteorology, and a New Northern Focus
- 2 | Negotiating JAWS, 1945-47
- Finding Funding
- Canadian Concerns
- Sovereignty, Security, and Science
- Operation Nanook (1946)
- Compromise and Cooperation
- Reaching an Agreement
- 3 | Situating the First Stations, 1947-48
- Slidre Fiord (Eureka Sound), Ellesmere Island, 80 15'N., 86 11'W.
- Task Force 68 Ventures North
- Resolute, Cornwallis Island, 74 70'N., 94 54'W.
- 4 | Finishing the Network, 1948-50
- Isachsen, Ellef Ringnes Island, 78 46'40' N., 103 31'40' W.
- Mould Bay, Prince Patrick Island, 76 14'16'N., 119 20'28'W.
- Resupplying the Stations: The Trials of Task Force 80
- Early Life at the Stations
- Adapting to the Environment
- Canadian Capabilities, Sovereignty, and the Resupply Missions of 1949-50
- Alert, Ellesmere Island, 82 30'06'N., 62 19'47'W.
- 5 | Who Did the Stations Need… and Who Did TheyGet?
- Incentives, Positions, and Recruitment
- Training
- Sovereignty Concerns
- Who had the "Right Stuff"?
- Getting There
- 6 | Science at the Stations
- The Meteorological Program
- Surface Observations
- Upper Air Observations
- Additional Scientific Observations at the Joint Arctic Weather Stations
- Science Hubs
- Scientific Cultures
- 7 | The Seasonal Cycle
- Emerging from Winter
- Spring
- Summer
- Autumn
- Winter
- 8 | Getting Along at the Top of the World
- Keeping Busy.
- Breaking Up the Monotony
- Animals
- Food
- Alcohol and Drugs
- Sexuality
- Coping with Isolation
- Leadership
- Shared Command and Canadian Sovereignty
- 9 | Canadianization: Getting Out of Joint?
- Conceptualizing Canadianization: Breaking the Ice
- The Stations, the DEW Line, and the 'Delicate Balance of Manpowerin the Northern Arctic'
- The High Arctic Relocations of Inuit: A Form of Canadianization?
- Last Call for Canadianization
- The End of a Bilateral Partnership
- Conclusions
- JAWS and Cold War Imperialism, Sovereignty, and Militarization
- Scientific Colonies?
- Stations as Spaces and Places of Everyday Scientific Life
- From JAWS to HAWS
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Archival Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Index
- Back Cover.