Susan Vickers and Lisa Willemse, Communication, Education & Outreach co-editors Summer usually means short or long breaks from work, and can be a great time to get out and travel both locally and internationally. But do we ever really take a break from blogging? Heck, no – for us, summer merely opens up great new […]
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Twelve days of solstice
Lisa Willemse and Raymond Nakamura, Multimedia co-editors ‘Tis the season to recognize the end of one year and the start of another. Whether you see this as an astronomical phenomenon, religious holiday, secular break, or something in between, light is often part of the celebration: an earlier dawn, candles, or strings of colourful LEDs. All […]
Polar Week 6: Profiles from the Arctic – the making of a web documentary
GUEST POST by Katriina O’Kane APECS member and independent documentary-maker Last summer, my colleague Evan Hall and I travelled to the Polar Continental Shelf Program (PCSP) base in Resolute Bay, Nunavut. Located in one of the northernmost villages in Canada, PCSP is the main research logistics centre in the Canadian high Arctic. The PCSP coordinates […]