Acknowledging our Past Editor

Patricia J. Wells

doi:10.14430/arctic4736

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Acknowledging our Past Editor

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I approach my first issue as editor of the journal Arctic with great trepidation, because this venerable publication has, for almost 80 years, published the works of some of the greatest Arctic scientists and social scientists, and because I am following in the footsteps of Karen McCullough, an extraordinarily competent editor, whose example is simultaneously an inspiration and the source of my apprehension
Many of the journal’s authors and readers are familiar with Karen’s editorial work, but few know how Karen’s background prepared her for working on this multidisciplinary Arctic publication. As she departs from the front of house at the Arctic Institute of North America, I would like to share a little about how Karen became such a brilliant editor
In the Bache Peninsula region of Ellesmere Island, she discovered some of the earliest pre-contact Inuit (Thule) settlements, and she went on to spend 15 seasons in the region surveying and excavating sites

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I approach my first issue as editor of the journal Arctic with great trepidation, because this venerable publication has, for almost 80 years, published the works of some of the greatest Arctic scientists and social scientists, and because I am following in the footsteps of Karen McCullough, an extraordinarily competent editor, whose example is simultaneously an inspiration and the source of my apprehension. As she departs from the front of house at the Arctic Institute of North America, I would like to share a little about how Karen became such a brilliant editor.

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