Being There: Scientists Enlist Inuit for Long-Term Observations of Arctic Wildlife [Slide Show]
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 17:00
in Earth & Climate
During the summer in Qaanaaq, Greenland , an Inuit hunter paddling next to a resting narwhal observed a thin gauzelike layer coming off the narwhal's body and dissipating into the water. The event lasted only a few seconds, but Connecticut-based dentist Martin Nweeia, a Harvard University and Smithsonian Institution researcher who studies narwhal tusks as his passion, immediately saw the scientific significance of the hunter's observation. [More]