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Figure 1.15
(a) Dog team at Pond Inlet with Bylot Island in the background in 1978 by N. K. Sinha and (b) dogs
simply ignoring author's commands at Qaanaaq in 1994 (photo by the master of the dog team).
Corporation (CBC). In the early days of his research,
based at Pond Inlet, the author (Sinha) found it impos-
sible to get anyone to assist him on the ice during the days
of hockey nights. In fact, they would invite him to spend
time with them, share their food, hear their stories, and
learn the intricacies of handling pucks on the ice. Frankly,
until then the author did not pay much attention to chas-
ing the pucks on ice with sticks; he was a soccer player.
Little did he know in those days that he would end up
spending lots of time on ice arenas for optimization of
structure, texture, and temperatures suitable for speed
skating versus figure skating or hockey. Although lifestyle
has changed significantly in the last 50 years, day‐to‐day
life among the Inuit communities are still intertwined
with sea ice. For most of the year Inuit life is still tied
closely to ice on the ocean. It is extremely important,
therefore, for sea ice scientists and engineers, to work
together with the local people of the north, and share
information and experience. A child in Qaanaaq showed
the author a symbolic gesture of working together in
Figure 1.16, and the children of that place collectively
provided another example of sharing in Figure 1.4.
Figure 1.16
Qaanaaq child proudly proving practical use of a
core hole and a sense of sharing as the author was making
notes on the ice core for structural details (photographed by
N. K. Sinha, March 1994).
1.5. sea ice and remote sensing
communications systems, television signals reached the
people of the north during the middle of the 1970s.
Saturdays became the days of the “Hockey night of
Canada” popularized by the Canadian Broadcasting
Due to the remote locations and the extreme climate
conditions where sea ice exits, the only tool that can be
used to study this ice is by space‐borne remote sensing.
This potential was realized more than 40 years ago. In the
