Date/Time
Date(s) - Tue Jan 26 2021
7:30 pm
Notes:
Bow Valley Naturalists – first program of 2021 winter speaker series.
presented by Dr. Shari Fox, a research scientist and geographer with the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
Sea ice, the frozen ocean, is home to many Arctic Indigenous peoples. With climate change, the sea ice has been profoundly changing, resulting in a range of interconnected and often compounding impacts on the environment, wildlife, and livelihoods of many communities. If you were born by the sea ice, played as a child on the sea ice, raised a family on the sea ice, depend on it, work with it, think and dream about it, day in and day out—how do you describe such an integral part of your life, something exotic to most people, but so familiar to you? How to you express the impacts of the changes you are experiencing?
This talk will look at the relationships between Arctic sea ice and the people who call it home. It will look at the great depth of knowledge that Arctic Indigenous peoples have about sea ice and how visiting scientists and Indigenous peoples are working together to study sea ice and its changes. Most importantly, we will go beyond what sea ice is to what sea ice means to those who live with and from it.
Make sure you register beforehand to see it live. Because of copyright issues, this program will not be recorded.