Still North Papers brings together 104 evidence essays, reviews, methods notes, and practice essays about the Arctic and the choices connected to it. Sixty papers adapt our field journal; 44 develop distinct questions in more depth. Each entry includes an abstract, sources, and a downloadable PDF.
Demonstration archive, not peer reviewed. Still North Arctic Institute and its staff are fictional. These educational syntheses report no original research, affiliations, or institutional achievements. Worked examples are illustrative, not measured results. Paper identifiers are local archive references, not DOIs. Cover images are generated illustrations, not expedition records.
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Showing 1–12 of 104 papers.
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At the ice edge north of Svalbard
Using an explicitly illustrative scene north of Svalbard, this essay examines how an ice-edge observation becomes evidence without becoming a claim about the whole Arctic. Pressure ridges expose the sampling problem of unusually thick features, while melt ponds show why date, drainage, weather, and…
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Listening for narwhals in Baffin Bay
An illustrative hydrophone deployment in Baffin Bay provides a practical account of the information needed to interpret underwater recordings. The essay follows calibration, clocks, depth, geometry, vessel activity, and handling noise from preparation through classification. It explains why a plausible narwhal signal can remain…
Download PDF: Listening for narwhals in Baffin Bay · 2 pages
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When an Arctic river turns orange
An orange stream is treated as a sampling question rather than a chemical diagnosis. This illustrative field note traces possible connections among permafrost thaw, newly accessible minerals, oxidation, water pathways, acidity, and metals, while retaining geology and seasonal flow as local controls. It uses…
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Rain on snow across the tundra
Rain-on-snow is examined as a sequence of precipitation, refreezing, and changing access to forage, not as a uniform Arctic event. The essay distinguishes a weather-station total from the hardness, position, extent, and persistence of the crust encountered by reindeer or caribou. Animal consequences depend…
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Measuring a glacier in footsteps
Ablation stakes provide the focus for an illustrative explanation of repeated glacier measurement and its limits. The essay follows stake placement, installation, exposed-length readings, surface conditions, density assumptions, and the records needed when a marker moves, tilts, disappears, or is replaced. A point measurement…
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A midnight-sun tundra plot
An illustrative tundra monitoring day links the detail inside a small sampling frame with the broader view of satellite greenness. The essay explains how fixed photographs, observer training, access routes, species records, moisture, and disturbance affect comparisons through time. It places the published regional…
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Choose the journeys that matter
The avoid, shift, and improve sequence is applied to the purpose of a journey rather than to a competition between transport identities. Drawing on the cited IPCC demand-side assessment, this practice essay considers when remote participation, combined errands, rail, public transport, walking, cycling, or…
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Keep the heat you already paid for
Comfort, health, and indoor air quality frame this practice essay on reducing avoidable household heat loss. It distinguishes safe checks of controls, blocked radiators, and failed seals from work requiring qualified advice, and warns against obstructing designed ventilation or combustion-air routes. Temporary draught measures…
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A week of plant-rich dinners
Seven flexible dinners illustrate how plant-rich eating can begin with familiar foods, available equipment, and a realistic household schedule. The essay follows cupboard checks, adaptable staples, leftovers, storage, and food-safety decisions rather than prescribing a perfect diet or estimating a measured climate benefit. It…
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Buy less, repair more
Keeping a product useful begins with identifying the function required, not assuming that every fault demands a purchase. This practice essay compares care, repair, borrowing, sharing, and justified replacement through a checklist covering safety, warranty, recalls, parts, skills, time, and likely continued service. Textile…
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Move your money and your voice
Financial choices and public participation are examined through the decision rights of pensions, banks, employers, suppliers, and public authorities. Rather than ranking institutions with simple climate labels, the essay asks who sets policy, which evidence is public, how exceptions operate, and what follows missed…
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Seven days to a lighter routine
A seven-day household experiment is offered as a way to discover practical friction, not calculate a footprint or rank personal virtue. The sequence maps existing constraints, changes one journey, checks useful heat, plans a plant-rich meal, maintains a low-risk item, contacts an institution, and…
