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 […]
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Polar Week 5: Science and community – connecting the dots
GUEST POST by Samantha Darling APECS member and Coordinator for First Nations Initiatives, Yukon College As an academic researcher, it can be easy to get caught up in the politics, numbers and deadlines that make up a typical academic setting. In doing so, there is the ongoing danger of forgetting to make the results of […]
Polar Week 4: Antarctica – Early explorers, terrestrial magnetism and investigating climate change
GUEST POST by Carol Devine APECS member and co-author of The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning Antarctica, like the Arctic, is a harbinger. It holds the majority of the world’s water and ice, and is crucial to the global ecosystem. People first began exploring this ‘last continent’ at the turn of the 20th century, […]
Polar Week 3: Arctic seabirds, canaries of global change
GUEST POST by Jennifer Provencher PhD candidate, Biology Department, Carleton University, Ottawa When most people think of the animals that live in polar regions, they think of polar bears or penguins. And although penguins are pretty cool, they are only a part of the amazing diversity of marine birds that make their home at the […]
Polar Week 1: Why do science at the poles?
GUEST POST by Katriina O’Kane, Jordan Grigor and Jennifer Provencher Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) Last summer, it cost more than $6,000 to travel to the Polar Continental Shelf Program’s Resolute base on Cornwallis Island, Nunavut: the largest research facility in the Canadian high Arctic. That was just the flight – add on […]