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Demonstration archive, not peer reviewed.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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- At the ice edge north of Svalbard (PDF)
- Listening for narwhals in Baffin Bay (PDF)
- When an Arctic river turns orange (PDF)
- Rain on snow across the tundra (PDF)
- Measuring a glacier in footsteps (PDF)
- A midnight-sun tundra plot (PDF)
- Choose the journeys that matter (PDF)
- Keep the heat you already paid for (PDF)
- A week of plant-rich dinners (PDF)
- Buy less, repair more (PDF)
- Move your money and your voice (PDF)
- Seven days to a lighter routine (PDF)
- Extent and volume tell different ice stories (PDF)
- How old is that sea ice? (PDF)
- Snow on sea ice has two seasons (PDF)
- A drifting instrument is not a fixed station (PDF)
- The bloom can begin before open water (PDF)
- The warmth beneath the Arctic surface (PDF)
- A quiet recording is not an empty sea (PDF)
- Counting the seals you cannot see (PDF)
- Distance is part of wildlife observation (PDF)
- A sea-ice pixel is not a habitat map (PDF)
- What an ice chart cannot promise (PDF)
- Testing a changing Arctic food web (PDF)
- The active layer is not the permafrost (PDF)
- A carbon store is not an annual emission (PDF)
- How much water is in that snow? (PDF)
- A cracked road needs more than a thaw map (PDF)
- A glacier front is not a balance sheet (PDF)
- What taller shrubs do to winter (PDF)
- The first flower needs a previous visit (PDF)
- The lake with no visible outlet (PDF)
- The muddiest water may not carry the most sediment (PDF)
- When the ground moves beneath the ruler (PDF)
- A permafrost map cannot inspect a building plot (PDF)
- Greenland's dark ice has more than one cause (PDF)
- Before you replace the fridge (PDF)
- A library of things needs a return desk (PDF)
- What the food bin can tell you (PDF)
- The office chair before the order form (PDF)
- Asking for a warmer building together (PDF)
- Plan the last mile before the invitation (PDF)
- Read the care label before laundry day (PDF)
- A carbon label is a question, not a verdict (PDF)
- Enough food for the room (PDF)
- Why the default is not a personal choice (PDF)
- Keep the question small when you disagree (PDF)
- A consultation response someone can act on (PDF)
- Metadata that outlives an instrument (PDF)
- Missing observations are not zeroes (PDF)
- The calibration record behind a trusted number (PDF)
- Maintenance is the next observation (PDF)
- A reproducible chart starts before the chart (PDF)
- Consent is a conversation, not a form (PDF)
- Open data, whose authority? (PDF)
- When results make the journey home (PDF)
- A research question before a sensor (PDF)
- Say what is uncertain, precisely (PDF)
- Read the Arctic Report Card beyond the headlines (PDF)
- An evidence session with room for a better question (PDF)
- Comparing passive-microwave ice algorithms without a false winner (PDF)
- How many independent comparisons cross an ice margin? (PDF)
- From ocean heat flux to a conditional melt bound (PDF)
- When conductivity does not mean saltier water (PDF)
- What a decibel number needs beside it (PDF)
- Designing duty cycles for acoustic time budgets (PDF)
- From vessel exposure to biological consequence (PDF)
- Counting prey is not counting available energy (PDF)
- Reading species models beyond sampled ocean conditions (PDF)
- Sea-ice forecast skill starts with a baseline (PDF)
- Look for a common driver before linking ocean series (PDF)
- Comparing ground-temperature records across depth and siting (PDF)
- When dissolved-carbon concentration and export diverge (PDF)
- What an unclosed catchment water budget can tell us (PDF)
- Designing an area-weighted tundra snow survey (PDF)
- Designing event sampling for annual suspended-sediment load (PDF)
- Estimating shrub area from a vegetation confusion matrix (PDF)
- How cloud screening changes a seasonal greenness comparison (PDF)
- Converting glacier mass change without changing the claim (PDF)
- Choosing a reference catchment for the flow that matters (PDF)
- Calibrating soil-moisture probes for organic tundra horizons (PDF)
- What counts as an independent tundra plot? (PDF)
- Publishing community maps without exposing lives (PDF)
- Cite the release, not the latest link (PDF)
- A rank is a distribution (PDF)
- When a second sensor is not a second network (PDF)
- Designing the overlap between instruments (PDF)
- A data licence cannot grant consent (PDF)
- What sentinel sites can and cannot represent (PDF)
- The missing peak: a worked missing-not-at-random example (PDF)
- Rare events and the denominator of a flag (PDF)
- Translating results without translating away uncertainty (PDF)
- After permission changes in a shared dataset (PDF)
- The service inside the package: defining a fair comparison (PDF)
- When sharing changes demand: a rebound audit for community services (PDF)
- A break-even point with blanks left in (PDF)
- Repair when remaining life is a range (PDF)
- Who keeps the benefit of a warmer rented home? (PDF)
- A seat is not a journey: comparing transport on the same unit (PDF)
- Substitute the meal, not just the ingredient (PDF)
- A cleaner portfolio is not yet a financing effect (PDF)
- What would have happened without the campaign? (PDF)
- What a policy pilot can earn permission to scale (PDF)
- After the click: testing whether evidence was understood (PDF)
Field guides
- Acoustic Observation Listening and Data Worksheet (PDF)
- Arctic Change in 2025 (PDF)
- Arctic Classroom Inquiry Pack (PDF)
- Community Research Questions and Governance (PDF)
- Low-Impact Home Field Guide (PDF)
- Observation Metadata Workbook (PDF)
- Reading an Arctic Evidence Chart (PDF)
- Repair and Procurement Decision Workbook (PDF)