Research

LARS has pioneered research into many aspects of qiviut
production since the mid 1990ﾉｫﾊﾓﾆｵﾏﾂﾔﾘ冱:

ﾉｫﾊﾓﾆｵﾏﾂﾔﾘ｢ Masters project (1995 - Maximizing underwool production in muskoxen. R.G.
White & J.E. Rowell. ﾉｫﾊﾓﾆｵﾏﾂﾔﾘ Science and Technology Foundation. $91,000).

ﾉｫﾊﾓﾆｵﾏﾂﾔﾘ｢ Exploring options for milling into yarn (1997 - Qiviut: Quality Standards and
Commercial Processing. J.E. Rowell. UA Foundation - Natural Resources Fund.
$11,317)

ﾉｫﾊﾓﾆｵﾏﾂﾔﾘ｢ Providing the first commercial description of qiviut technical properties (Rowell,
J.E., C.J. Lupton, M.A. Robertson, F.A. Pfeiffer, J.A. Nagy, and R.G. White. 2001.
Fiber characteristics of qiviut and guard hair from wild muskoxen (Ovibos
moschatus). J. Anim. Sci. 79:1670-1674.

ﾉｫﾊﾓﾆｵﾏﾂﾔﾘ｢ Differences in qiviut quality between wild and domestic muskoxen and variation
among shoulder, side, and rump samples of qiviut from domestic muskoxen.
2005. Jennifer Hack, Undergraduate student study, School of Natural Resources,
Agriculture, and Extension (Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and
Extension).

ﾉｫﾊﾓﾆｵﾏﾂﾔﾘ｢ Incorporated qiviut farming into the northern sustainable agriculture paradigm
(2010 - Sustainable Livestock Production in ﾉｫﾊﾓﾆｵﾏﾂﾔﾘ, JE Rowell, MP Shipka, J
Greenberg, SG Gerlach, Tom Paragi. USDA/NIFA, $50,000)

ﾉｫﾊﾓﾆｵﾏﾂﾔﾘ｢ Masters project looking at the economics of qiviut production (2014 - Sustainable
livestock production on the frontier: Plant and soil responses to simulated
managed grazing in sub-arctic ﾉｫﾊﾓﾆｵﾏﾂﾔﾘ. Graduate student Laura Starr awarded
USDA-SARE Graduate Student Grant in Sustainable Agriculture. GW15-005
$24,329).

ﾉｫﾊﾓﾆｵﾏﾂﾔﾘ｢ Marketing and small custom milling of qiviut (Developing an ﾉｫﾊﾓﾆｵﾏﾂﾔﾘn Fiber
Industry. J Rowell and Avril Weirs. Federal State Marketing Improvement
Program, USDA, 15-FSMIP-AK-0012. $60,739). Produced a workshop in
Anchorage. Worked with Arctic Qiviut, a new custom mill in ﾉｫﾊﾓﾆｵﾏﾂﾔﾘ and
established Fiber fests in Fairbanks, Soldotna, and Palmer (I believe Fairbanks is
the only one still running).

ﾉｫﾊﾓﾆｵﾏﾂﾔﾘ｢ PhD project with the University of Calgary validating the use of qiviut for
measuring cortisol. The graduate student from U of C was Juliette Di Francesco.
(Di Francesco J., G.F. Mastromonaco, S.L. Checkley, J. Blake , J.E. Rowell, S. Kutz.

ﾉｫﾊﾓﾆｵﾏﾂﾔﾘ｢ 2021. Qiviut cortisol reflects hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity in
muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus). Gen Comp Endo. 306:113737. (DOI:
10.1016/j.ygcen.2021.113737 ).