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Sami Mattis Sara helps Nicholas Tyler, reindeer biologist, take blood sample Karasjok. Sapmi. Norway. 2000

Biologist checks teeth of a Polar Wolf. Ellesmere Island. NWT. Canada. 1994

An Inuit technician cleans a sunlight recorder at Igloolik Research Centre. Nunavut, Canada. 1990

Eiscat Svalbard Radar dishes just above Mine 7 in Adventdalen. Spitsbergen.

Reindeer scientist takes a sample of blood from a reindeer at research station near Inari. North Finland. 1996

A Peary Caribou is satellite tagged & then released. Ellesmere National Park Reseserve. Nunavut, Canada. 1994

Nick Tyler, Reindeer biologist and David Dyson, vet, study a dead reindeer bull in Adventdalen. Spitsbergen

Eiscat Radio Telescope in Adventdalen, Svalbard, used to study the Aurora.

A young Inuit man undergoes fitness testing at the Science Institute's Research Laboratory in Igloolik. Nunavut. Canada. 1990

Scientists with a drugged Polar bear. Churchill. Canada.

Monitoring a patients sleep at the Sleep Research Centre. Asgard Hosp. Tromso. Norway. 1990

Dishes at Eiscat Auroral Research Centre in the Polar night. Tromso. Norway. 1990

A woman having computer diagnostics of her lung functions at the hospital in Norilsk. W.Siberia, Russia. 2000

Prof. Jon Lien releasing a Humpback Whale trapped in a fishing net, off the coast of Labrador. Canada. 1983

Woman biologist studying Goose behaviour with goslings. Science in the slow lane, Ny �lesund

In Ny Alesund a group of biologists prepare to go out in a rubber boat. Spitsbergen

A Peary Caribou is satellite tagged by scientists & Inuit warden in Ellesmere Island National Park. Nunavut, Canada. 1994

Arctic Fox in summer pelage, this one has very prominent ear markers as it is being studied. Svalbard

Julie Grettye repairs a weather monitoring unit at Lake El'gygytgyn, Chukotka, Siberia.Photo: O.Gogoleva. 2002

Inuit hunter, Putdlak Uvdloriak, measures the tusks of a dead walrus. N.W.Greenland. 1989

Skull of a bull Svalbard reindeer that died with his antlers entangled in stock fence. Svalbard

Arctic Fox sitting on a doorstep in Ny �lesund, where there is an active research project on them. Svalbard

British tourists pose on the steps of the Chinese research station in Ny Alesund. Spitsbergen. Norway.