The Northern Community: A Search for a Quality Environment

Specialty Conference on Cold Region Engineering

Seattle, Washington

April, 1981

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Community Development in the Circumpolar North

Edwin M. Rhoads

Urban Design Lessons from Alaska

Richard K. Morehouse and Edwin B. Crittenden

A New Generation of Northern Communities

Kaien M. Shimizu

The Technical Development Work in Greenland-An Overview

Gunnar P. Rosendahl

Community Planning Considerations in Cold Regions

William L. Ryan

Home Rule and Resource Policy in Greenland

Mark B. Lapping

THE PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT

Building the Northern Urban Environment

Roy H. Fletcher

A Design. Process for Northern Accommodation

Kevin Beingessner, Stephen Feist, Beate Jansson, and Robert McManus

Design of the Built Environment in Cold Regions

Edwin B. Crittenden

Accommodation Design for Remote Settlements

Colin Bent

Space-Time Environment-Man. Architecture, Climate and Technology

Guy Gerin-Lajoie

The Log School: A Case for Appropriate Design

Patrick Dubbs and Ray Barnhardt

The Single Worker, Housing and Communal Problems in an Isolated Resource Based Community

Peter L. E. Goering and Robert B. Bechtel

The Prudhoe Bay Enclave

Edwin B. Crittenden

Tribal Governments and Federal Environmental Policy

Richard A. Du Bey and Steven S. Anderson

Environmental Impacts of Energy Conservation

Theodore L. Smith and Larry S. Lau

Environmental Constraints on Technology

J. Thomas Atkins

TRANSPORTATION, PORTS AND HARBORS

Some Transportation Options for the Yukon River

Derek Sherman

Port Feasibility Study, Nome, Alaska

Peter E. Gadd, Guido Z. Zemgals, and Frank Chmelik

Lightening with Air Cushion Vehicles in Alaska

Bob C. Thomas

Lake Overflow-A Hazard to Winter Travel in Northern Regions

William G. Nelson

The Principle of Railway Line Selection in Alpine Permafrost Regions

Qui Guoqing, Zhang Changqing, Zhu Changsheng, and Wang Duo

ARCHITECTURE, STRUCTURES AND CONSTRUCTION

A New U.S. Station for Antarctica

Alan C. Esser

Energy Efficient Modular Dwellings for Cold Regions

L. Missala

Modular Heliportable Shelter System for Small Camps

Jozsef M. Kovacs

Stack wall-Small Log Buildings for Remote Areas

A. B. Sparling and A. M. Lansdown

Construction in an Arctic Environment Without Adequate Inspection

Charles L. Hoar

Eskimo Self-Determination Comes of Age With a Quality Construction Program in the Alaskan Arctic

E.G. Brown

Acoustics and Noise Control

Ewart A. Wetherill

Air-to-Air Heat Recovery Devices for Small Buildings

John P. Zarling

Window Performance in Extreme Cold

Stephen N. Flanders, James S. Buska, and Stephen Barrett

Single Wire Ground Return Transmission for Rural Alaska

F. J. Bettine and R. W. Retherford

An Advanced Northern Utility Piping System

T. Fiala, E. T. O'Brien, and A. D. Whyman

Parking Deck Deterioration from Chlorides

Norman G. Jacobson and Kenneth A. Kvalheim

WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

Mixing and Microorganism Survival in the Slave River, N. W. T.

D. W. Smith and R. Gerard

Greywater Management for Isolated Northern Communities

S. E. Hrudey and S. Raniga

Aquaculture for Wastewater Treatment in Cold Climates

Sherwood C. Reed and John Bouzoun

Dry Ash Handling System in Cold Climatic Conditions

Tariq Rafay and Robin Wesley

Methane Productions in Sanitary Landfills in Cold Regions

O. E. Dickason and W. G. Nelson

Winter Air Pollution at Fairbanks. Alaska

H. J. Coutts and T. F. Jenkins

WATER RESOURCES

Water Conservation for Northern Communities

Bryan C. Armstrong and James J. Cameron

Dawson City Water and Sewerage Program-An Overview

E. I. Shillington, W. H. Kiefer, and N. J. Nuttall

Evaluation of Alternative Water Bleeder Controls

A. Yee and D. W. Smith

Water Chemistry in a Permafrost Environment. Alaska

N. C. Krothe

Subarctic Snowmelt Runoff Generation

Douglas L. Kane, Stephen R. Bredthauer, and Jean Stein

Small Hydropower Potential in Remote Alaska

Ellen S. Cunningham and Robert A. Zylman

Data Acquisition Utilizing Meteor Burst Telemetry

Henry S. Santeford, Stephen R. Bredthauer, and Eric A. Marchegiani

Alaskan Beaufort Sea Coast Mesoscale Meteorology

Thomas L. Kozo

THE FREEZING, FROZEN, THAWING GROUND ENVIRONMENT

Ground Temperature Studies at an Arctic Drained Lake Site

A. Judge, M. Burgess, A. Taylor, and V. Allen

Divisional Indexes and Marks of Horizontal Distribution of Permafrost in China

Ding Dewen and Xu Xiaozu

Shallow Foundations in Continuous Permafrost

Arvind Phukan

Present Condition (1980) of the Taps Gravel Workpad

Thomas G. Krzewinski, Edwin S. Clarke, and Michael C. Metz

Construction and Performance of Frozen Gravel Fills

R. G. Tart and U. Luscher

Chilled Gas Pipeline-Frost-Heave Design

Otto J. Svec

Frost Depth Prediction for Highway Subgrade Soils

Wilbur M. Haas and Gregory C. Bovid

A Survey of Preventing Cold Region Engineering Constructions from Frost Damages in China

Chen Xiaobai

Relationship Between Normal Frost-Heaving Forces and Areas of Bearing Plates

Tong Changjiang and Yu Chongyun

Ice Force Measurement on the Yukon River Bridge

Terry McFadden, Donald Haynes, John Burdick and John Zarling