Episode 12 - Arctic Connection: Community Collaborations in Research
Arctic inhabitants are taking research into their own hands. Rather than letting scientists determine what needs to be studied, Inuit communities in Canada are determining what questions they need ans...
6 Joulu 20168min
Episode 11 - Vulnerable Coasts
Coastlines everywhere are hit by waves and storms from rising seas that can eat away at the shoreline, but Arctic coasts once frozen in place by permafrost are especially susceptible to coastal erosio...
6 Joulu 20169min
Episode 10 - The Disappearing Frozen Ocean
Sea ice is rapidly decreasing due to accelerated warming in the Arctic. Animals, subsistence hunters, and researchers who rely on the frozen surface are adapting to less ice while trying to preserve t...
6 Joulu 201610min
Episode 9 - How Yukon glaciers are responding to climate change
Many glaciers in the Kluane Region are fed by a massive reservoir of snow and ice that sits on top of the St. Elias Mountains. Glaciologists are studying how global warming is affecting the physical c...
3 Loka 20169min
Episode 8 - Warm, thaw, repeat: how the degradation of permafrost will amplify climate change
Frozen soils (or permafrost) in the Arctic are thawing, destabilizing the ground surface and damaging buildings and roads. Although infrastructure is crumbling, scientists are more concerned with the ...
3 Loka 20169min
Episode 7- Upwards and northwards: tree line advancement in the alpine, subarctic and Arctic
As the Arctic warms, the limits of where trees can grow are slowly shifting up mountains and further north. Researchers at the Kluane Lake Research Station in Yukon, Canada are trying to determine the...
3 Loka 20168min
Per6.- HSwanson
Dr. Heidi Swanson is an assistant professor and university research chair at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. She studies the response of aquatic food webs to climate change and the accu...
15 Huhti 201616min
Per6.- SCGerlach
Dr. Craig Gerlach is the Academic Coordinator for Sustainability at the University of Calgary and a professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology. Prior to joining the University of Calg...
15 Huhti 201613min
