Polar Data Catalogue Keywords Library

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Geographic Locations

Akimiski Island
Alaska
Alexandra Fiord
Amundsen Gulf
Anaktalak Bay
Antarctic
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Asia
Aulavik
Auyuittuq
Axel Heiberg Island
Ayles Fiord
Ayles Ice Shelf
Aylmer Lake
Baffin Bay
Baffin Island
Barents Sea
Barrow Strait
Bathurst Island
Beaufort Sea
Bylot Island
Canada
Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Canadian High Arctic
Cape Bounty
Cape Churchill
Char Lake
Chukchi Sea
Circumpolar region
Coral Harbour
Cornwallis Island
Creswell Bay
Daneborg
Daring Lake
Davis Strait
Devon Island
Disraeli Fiord
Drayton Island
East Bay
Eastwind Lake
Eclipse Sound
Ellef Ringnes Island
Ellesmere Island
Eureka Sound
Europe
Fosheim Peninsula
Foxe Basin
Franklin Bay
Fungal endophytes
Gladstone Lakes
Global
Greenland
Griffith Island
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Herschel Island
Himalaya
Horanaday River
Hudson Bay
Hudson Strait
Iceland
Inuvialuit
Ivvavik
James Bay
Jones Sound
Kangirsualujjuaq
Kangirsujuaq
Kara Sea
Kent Peninsula
Kivalliq
Kluane
Kluane national park
Komakuk Beach
Kosoak
La Grande Basin
La Perouse Bay
Labrador
Lake A
Lake Amituk
Lake Hazen
Lake Resolute
Laptev Sea
Lena River
Lowther Island
Mackenzie Mountains
Mackenzie River
Mackenzie Shelf
Manitoba
Markham Fiord
Markham Ice Shelf
Melville Island
Melville Peninsula
Milne Ice Shelf
Nachvak Fiord
Nahanni
Naires Strait
Nepihjee River
North America
North Pole
North Water Polynya
Northern Canada
Northern Hemisphere
Northwest Passage
Northwest Territories
Norway
Nunatsiavut
Nunavik
Nunavut
Nuuk
Okak Bay
Old Factory River
Oliver Sound
Pechora River
Pechora Sea
Pingualuit
Postglacial Tyrrell Sea
Prince of Wales Icefield
Queen Elizabeth Islands
Quttinirpaaq
Quttinirpaaq national park
Qu�bec
Rambow Bay
Resolute Bay
Russia
Russian Federation
Saglek Bay
Sewage treatment
Siberian Arctic
Sirmilik
Southampton Island
St. Helena Island
Subantarctic
Subarctic
Taimyr Peninsula
Tanquary Fiord
Tatshenshini-Alsek Park
Torngat Mountains
Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula
Tuktut Nogait
Ukkusuksalik
Ungava Bay
Ungava Peninsula
Victoria Island
Viscount Melville Sound
Voisey s Bay
Vuntut
Walker Bay
Wapusk
Ward Hunt Ice Shelf
Ward Hunt Island
Ward Hunt Lake
White Sea
Yukon

Health Sciences and Contaminants

Altitude
Anions
Anisakidae
Antibodies
Atmospheric elemental mercury
Bio-accumulation
Blizzards
Blood lipids
Blood pressure
Blood samples
Blowing snow
Brominated diphenyl ethers
Brucella
Brucellosis
Cadmium
Campylobacter
Cardiovascular risk factors
Cerebellum
Chronology
Clostridium
Community Health
Coxiella
Cryptosporidium
Cushion plants
DDT
Database (contaminants)
Database (health)
Desulfovibrio
Development
Diagenesis
Diagnostic methods
Diet
Dimethylmercury
Disease
Dissolved gaseous mercury
Distribution
E. coli
Echinicoccus
Echinococcosis
Ecophysiology
Enterococcus
Enzyme
F-specific coliphages
Food consumption
Francisella
Freshwater availability
Freshwater quality
Gastroenteritis
Giardia
Greenhouse gases
HPCs
Halogenated phenolics
Health
Health communication
Health risk
Health status
Health survey
Heavy metal
Herbicides
Hospital archives
Hydatid disease
Hydrocarbon
Hydroxylated metabolites
Hypothermia
Ice trails
Inuit Health Survey
Inuit lifestyles
Junk food
Lake varve
Leptospira
Leptospirosis
Lifestyle
Light
Lipid
MDE
Maternity care
Medical authorities
Mental health
Mercury
Mercury depletion events
Mercury speciation
Methylmercury
Microbial community
Midwife
Mollusc
Multiple chronologies
Neurotoxin
Norovirus
Nunavik Public Health Direction
Nutrition
Obesity
Oxygen isotopic analysis
PCBs
PH
Parasite
Past climate reconstitution
Pathogen
Perfluorinated acids
Perfluoro contaminant
Perfluorooctanesulfonate
Perfluorooctanoate
Perinatal exposure
Persistent organic pollutants
Photochemistry
Photodegradation
Pregnancy
Productivity
Propylthiouracil
Public health
Q fever
Questionnaire
Reactive bromide oxide
Reproduction
Risk factor
Safety
Salmonella
Sanitation
Seal meat
Serology
Seroprevalence
Shelter
Shigella
Streptococcus
Subsistence
Total gaseous mercury
Toxocara
Toxocariasis
Toxoplasma gondii
Toxoplasmosis
Trace elements
Traditional diet
Traditional food
Trail
Trends
Trichinella
Tularemia
Water quality
Wind chill
Yersina
Zoonose

Inuktitut Keywords

Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit
Isumagijaksaq
Qaujisarvik
Sila
Unikkaaqatigiit

Natural Sciences

137-Cs
210-Pb
Abundance
Acoustic
Active layer
Activity
Aerial photographs
Aerial surveys
Ahiak caribou herd
Air
Air gas exchange
Air temperature
Akia-Maniitsoq caribou herd
Algae
American crow
Amphibians
Anadromous
Archaea
Arctic Oscillation
Arctic char
Arctic cod
Arctic fox
Arctic gull
Arctic wolf
Arthropods
Atmosphere
Atmospheric composition
Atmospheric profiler
Backscatter
Bacteria
Bacterial production
Bacterivory
Barometric pressure
Bathurst caribou herd
Bathymetry
Beavers
Bedrock
Bees
Beetles
Beluga
Benthic surveys
Benthos
Berries
Berry productivity
Beverly caribou herd
Biodiversity
Biogeochemistry
Biological productivity
Biological sciences
Biomarkers
Biomass
Biota
Bird banding
Bird colonies
Birds
Bivalves
Bluenose East caribou herd
Bluenose West caribou herd
Body condition
Bottom sediments
Bowhead whale
Breeding colonies
Brightness Temperature
Brine
Bromine oxide
Brown lemming
Buoys
CAT Scan
CTD
CTD profiles
Canada goose
Cape Bathurst caribou herd
Carbon
Carbon dioxide
Carbon fluxes
Carbon, nitrogen and sulfur analysis (CNS)
Carbonate
Caribou
Caribou demography
Carnivores
Central Arctic caribou herd
Char
Chart
Chironomids
Chlorophyll
Chokotka caribou herd
Circulation
Cladocera
Clay
Climate
Climate change
Climate hazards
Climate history
Climatic models
Climatology
Clone library
Cloudbase height
Clouds
Coastal dynamics
Coastal erosion
Coastal hazards
Coastal ice
Coastline
Cod
Collared lemming
Collembola
Colored dissolved organic material (CDOM)
Common eider
Common murre
Common raven
Community-based monitoring
Conductivity
Contaminants
Convection
Copepods
Crab
Crustaceans
Cryosphere
Cyanobacteria
DNA
Daphnia
Database
Deep water
Deers
Deglaciation
Dendrochronology
Density
Diatoms
Dielectric
Dimethylsulfide (DMS)
Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP)
Dinoflagellate cyst
Dinoflagellates
Diptera
Direction finder
Discontinuous permafrost
Dissolved gaseous mercury (see Health sciences)
Dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC)
Dissolved organic carbon (DOC)
Dissolved organic matter (DOM)
Diversity
Drainage basin
Drinking water
Dry upland heath
ENVISAT
Earth Sciences
Eastern High Arctic Brant
Eddy covariance
Eiders
El Ni�o
Emissions
Empetrum nigrum
Energy balance
Environmental impacts
Epishelf lakes
Erosion
Estuary
Eukaryotes
Experimental warming
Export production
Extracellular Polymeric Substances
Extracellular enzymes
Extreme habitats
Extreme weather
Extremophiles
Fatty acids
Fauna
Fecundity
Feeding
Feeding experiment
Feeding success
Femtoplankton
Fiords
Fish larvae
Fisheries
Fishes
Fitness
Flies
Flood
Flora
Flowers
Fluorescence
Fluorinated contaminants
Fluvial
Flux
Fluxes
Food
Food web
Foraminifers
Forecast
Forest-tundra
Fossils
Foxes
Freeze-up
Frequency
Freshwater flows
Freshwater fluxes
Freshwaters
Frogs
Frost flowers
Fulmars
Fungi
GIS
GPS
Gases
Geese
General Circulation Model
Genetic analysis
Geology
Geomorphology
Geophysical surveys
George River caribou herd
Geospatial data
Glacial runoffs
Glaciers
Glaciology
Glaucous gull
Goose
Gradients
Grain size
Graminoids
Grazing
Grazing impacts
Greater snow geese
Greenhouse gas
Grizzly bear
Ground ice
Ground penetrating radar
Groundwater
Growth rate
Guillemots
Gull
Gulls
Gut content analyses
Habitat use
Habitats
Halibuts
Hardangaarvida caribou herd
Heat
Heat budget
Heat fluxes
Herbivores
Herbivory
Herring gull
Heterotrophy
Holocene
Horizontal Gene Transfer
Humidity
Hydro Qu�bec
Hydrochemistry
Hydroelectric reservoir
Hydroelectricity
Hydrography
Hydrology
ITRAX
Ice
Ice Patch
Ice algae
Ice break-up
Ice chart
Ice cores
Ice margin
Ice microstructure
Ice shelf
Ice thickness
Ice wedges
Iceland caribou herd
Ikonos
Image analysis
Images
Infrared
Infrastructures
Ingestion rates
Insects
Integrated Regional Impact Studies
Inter-specific relationships
Interflow
Invertebrates
Ions concentration
JPEG
Jaegers
Kangerlussuaq-Sisimiut caribou herd
Kemmerer water sampler
Lake
Lake ice
Lake sediments
Lake trout
Lake water turbidity
Lakes
Land Surface Temperature
Land cover
Land-water interface
Landfast ice
Landform
Landsat image
Landscape
Landslide
Lapland longspur
Laser
Leads
Leaf River caribou herd
Least weasel
Lemmings
Lena-Olenyk caribou herd
Lepidoptera
Lesser snow geese
Lichens
Life history
Lignin
Limnology
Liquid chromatography
Litter size
Long-tailed jaeger
Loss on ignition (LOI)
MOBS
MODIS
Macrophytes
Macrozoobenthos
Malaise traps
Mammals
Manitoba Hydro
Map layers
Mapping
Maps
Marine birds
Marine ecology
Marine mammals
Marine productivity
Marine sediments
Mass movements
Mass spectrometry
Meadow vole
Megazoobenthos
Mercury fluxes
Mesic tundra
Metadata
Metals
Meteorological
Meteorology
Methane
Methanesulphonate
Microarray
Microbial food webs
Microbial methylation
Microfossils
Microorganisms
Microwave
Microzooplankton
Migration
Migratory routes
Mines
Modeling
Models
Molecular biogeochemistry
Momentum fluxes
Monitoring
Moose
Morphology
Mosquitos
Moss
Motion
Motionpack
Multibeam
Murres
Mussels
Nanoflagellates
Narwhals
Natural radionuclides
Nepheloid layer
Nesting
New production
Nitrates
Nitrogen
Nitrous Oxide (N2O)
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Nutrient cycling
Nutrient inputs
Nutrients
Observatory
Ocean Mapping Group
Ocean circulation
Oceanic water masses
Oceanography
Oceans
Omnitrax
Optical
Optics
Organic carbon
Organic matter
Organic microfossils
Organohalogens
Ostracods
Otolith
Otoliths
Ouranos
Overflow
Oxygen
Oxygen isotopes
Ozone
Paleo-indicators
Paleoceanography
Paleoclimate
Paleoclimatic reconstruction
Paleolimnology
Paleomagnetism
Palsa
Parasites
Parasitic jaeger
Particles
Particulate inorganic carbon
Particulate organic carbon
Passerines
Passive microwave
Pathfinder
Peary caribou
Peat
Peat cover
Peatland
Peregrine falcon
Perennial ice
Periphyton
Permafrost
Pesticides
Phenology
Phosphorus
Photo-oxidation
Photoprotection
Photosynthesis
Photosynthetically available radiation (PAR)
Physical forcing
Physical-biological coupling
Phytoplankton
Phytoplankton viability
Picocyanobacteria
Picoeukaryotes
Picoplankton
Pictures
Pigments
Pipelines
Plant biomass
Plant colonization
Plant succession
Plants
Plovers
Polar bear
Polar desert
Polarization
Polarized light
Pollen
Polygonal terrain
Polymers
Ponds
Population dynamics
Porcupine caribou herd
Post-glacial uplift
Precipitations
Predation
Predation impacts
Predator-prey interactions
Pressure
Primary production
Profiler
Protists
Qamanirjuaq caribou herd
Quaternary
RADARSAT
RNA
RSF function
Radiation
Radio scattering
Radio telemetry
Radiochronology
Radiometer
Radiometric dating
Red fox
Regional variations
Reindeer
Relative humidity
Remote sensing data
Reproductive ecology
Reproductive phenology
Reproductive success
Reptiles
Resistivity
Resolution
Resources
Respiration
Retrogressive thaw slump
Ringed seal
River
River Ice
River water turbidity
Rivers
Rough-legged hawk
Roughness
SAR
Salinity
Salmons
Sandpipers
Satellite imagery
Satellite validation
Scanning electron microscope (SEM)
Scatterometer
Scenarios
Sculpins
Sea birds
Sea ice
Sea level
Seabed
Seals
Secondary production
Sedge meadow
Sediment accumulation rate
Sediment cores
Sediment fluxes
Sedimentation rates
Sediments
Seeds
Shorebirds
Shoreline
Short-eared owl
Short-tailed weasel
Shrimps
Shrub competition
Significant wave height
Silica
Slope
Small mammals
Snow
Snow Pit
Snow accumulation rates
Snow cover
Snow density
Snow depth
Snow fence
Snow geese
Snow manipulation
Snow melt
Snow profile
Snow temperature
Snow water equivalent (SWE)
Snowy owl
Social-ecological systems
Soil chemistry
Soil microbial biomass
Soil microbiology
Soil pH
Soil temperature
Soils
Solar radiation
Southampton caribou herd
Southern Oscillation
Spatial data
Species composition
Spiders
Spores
Stable isotope analyses
Stable isotope tracers
Stamukhi
Statistics
Storm surge
Storms
Stratification
Stratigraphy
Stream enhancement
Streams
Sulfur
Sulphate reduction
Summer melt
Surface
Surface ozone depletion
Surface sediments
Surficial deposit
Suspended sediments
Sustainability
Svalbard caribou herd
Sympagic meiofauna
Taimyr caribou herd
Taxonomy
Telemetry
Temperature
Territories
Teshekpuk Lake caribou herd
Thaw lakes
Thawing
Thermo-erosion gullies
Thermodynamics
Thermokarsts
Thick-billed murre
Thin section
Threshold
Tides
Topogram
Topographic Map
Topographical surveys
Topography
Transducer
Transect
Transmittance
Transpolar Drift
Treeline
Trophic dynamics
Tropopause
Tropospheric mercury
Tundra
Turbidity
Turbulence
Turbulent fluxes
Ultraviolet radiation
Underflow
Ungulates
Upwelling
Vaccinium uliginosum
Varve
Vegetation
Velocity
Virus
Walrus
Water
Water balance
Water budget
Water chemistry
Water column
Water density
Water supply
Water temperature
Water vapour flux
Water-air gas exchange
Watershed
Wave parameters
Wave spectrum
Waves
Weasels
Weather
Webcam
Western Arctic caribou herd
Wetland
Whales
White-rumped sandpiper
Wildlife
Wildlife management
Wind Speed
Wind direction
Winds
X-radiography
Zoobenthos
Zooplankton

Northern Communities

Aklavik
Akulivik
Alert
Arctic Bay
Arviat
Aupaluk
Baker Lake
Bathurst Inlet
Bay Chimo
Cambridge Bay
Cape Dorset
Chesterfield Inlet
Clyde River
Colville Lake
Coral Harbour (see Geographic category)
Davis Inlet
Deline
Eureka
Fort Good Hope
Gjoa Haven
Grise Fiord
Hall Beach
Holman
Hopedale
Igloolik
Inukjuak
Inuvik
Iqaluit
Ivujivik
Kangiqsualujjuaq
Kangiqsujuaq
Kangirsuk
Kawawachikamach
Kimmirut
Kugaaruk
Kugluktuk
Kuujjuaq
Kuujjuaraapik
Mittimatalik
Nain
Nanisivik
Norman Wells
Old Crow
Pangnirtung
Paulatuk
Paulatuuq
Pelly Bay
Pond Inlet
Puvirnituq
Qausuittuq
Qikiqtarjuaq
Qiqiktarjuaq
Quaqtaq
Radisson
Rankin Inlet
Repulse Bay
Resolute
Rigolet
Sachs Harbour
Salluit
Sanikiluaq
Southern Tutchone
Taloyoak
Tasiujaq
Tlingit
Tuktoyaktuk
Tulita
Ulukhaktok
Umiujaq
Whale Cove

Social Sciences, Economics and Policy

Aboriginal land claim
Aboriginal organizations
Adaptation
Airports
Archaeology
Berry picking
Capacity building
Clam gathering
Community freezer
Community infrastructure
Community mobilization
Community vulnerability
Conservation
Cooperation
Cultural development
Cultural preservation
Cultural values
Database (socioeconomic)
Decision makers
Demography
Diabetes
Diplomacy
Doctrines
Economics
Education
Elders
Entrepreneurship
Environment surveillance
Environmental health
Ethic
Ethnography
Exposure
Financial resources
Fishing
Foreign policy
Funding
Future exposure
Globalization
Government
Governmental policies
Habitat vulnerability
Harvesting site
Healing
Health promotion
Homelessness
Housing
Human adaptation
Human health
Human occupation
Human perception
Human resources
Human rights
Human-made hazards
Human-wildlife relationships
Hunting
Hunting location
Impact assessments
Indigenous peoples
Industries
Information sharing
International law
International relations
Interview
Inuit Knowledge
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK)
Inuit Tuttarvingat (of NAHO)
Inuit entrepreneurship
Inuit population
James Bay and Northern Qu�bec Agreement
Knowledge transfer
Kw�dāy D�n Ts��nchį
Kyoto Protocol
Land claims
Law
Law of the Sea Convention
Legacy
Legal research
Legal strategies
Livelihood
Makivik Corporation
Management
Marine transport
Maritime navigation
Meteorological hazards
Model
Modernization
Municipal authorities
Northerners
Nunatsiavut Government
Nunavut Government
Open-dialogue
Organizations
Parks
Partnerships
Pilot projects
Policy
Politics
Poverty
Practical legislations
Raglan Agreement
Rail
Recreational hunting
Regional development
Regional scale modeling
Regulation
Resilience
Resource development
Resource management strategies
Roads
Sanarrutik Agreement
Scenario
Schools
Self-determination
Shipping
Social benefits
Social change
Social cost
Social impacts
Social integration
Social sciences
Socio-economic impacts
Sovereignty
Sport hunting
Stakeholders
Strategies
Suicide
Technological resources
Thule
Tourism
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
Traditional Knowledge
Training
Transportation
Trappers
Villages
Vocational education
Vulnerability
Wellness
Whaling
Wooden artifacts
Youth Perspectives
Youth education

Transdisciplinary

Archive
Bibliography
Book
CRYSYS
Construction
Data centre
Data portal
Database (transdiscplinary)
Library
Mining
Multidisciplinary
Network
Petroleum Industry
Publication
Report
Statistics (transdisciplinary)
Study