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Arrival in Iqaluit
Clouds mostly obscured the three-hour flight, but as the plane began its descent, the terrain becam...
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Iqaluit Fire Department
Abby, Elizabeth, base-camp manager John Huston and webmaster Jim Paulson went for a walk around Iqa...
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In Memory of Chester
The Global Warming 101 Expedition Team knows all too well about the bond they develop with their c...
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Matty McNair
Last night the expedition team visited Matty McNair and her twenty-year-old daughter, Sarah. Matty ...
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A Walk Around Iqaluit
Abby stands on the sea ice as night falls. The lights of Iqaluit glimmer in the background.
Every...
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Down by the Shore
Abby, Elizabeth, John H, and Jerry walked along the edge of the bay in Iqaluit as the sun sank low ...
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The Tent on Ice
Abby and Elizabeth went down to the sea ice today to set up their tent, check its guylines, and add...
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Inuksuk High School
High on a hill overlooking Iqaluit and Frobisher Bay sits Inuksuk High School. The big blue buildin...
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Life Skills Class
Patches arrived yesterday from two more sponsors. We knew that without help we wouldn’t have time t...
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Mushing in the Street
The winds whipped snow and sand around the town as John Stetson and Nancy Moundalexis emerged from...
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Arctic Tide Surge
The snowmobile road is flooded.
Over the last few days we’ve noticed that at high tide the ocean ...
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Gear Preparation
John S. and Nancy cut poly rope for dog necklines.
The team is working full-time to finish the ge...
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Expedition Team United
Theo Ikummaq
After months of anticipation, all seven expedition members are finally united in Iqa...
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Frozen Raw Caribou for Dinner
Simon Qamanirq carving caribou meat
The rich aroma of raw caribou and walrus came wafting down Na...
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Meeka Mike
Yesterday the team met Meeka Mike, an Inuit woman dog-musher and guide, who was born in Pangnirtun...
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Making traditional Inuit clothing...
Local dogteamer Meeka Mike invited Elizabeth and Marie, the wife of expedition member Luki Airut, ...
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Frostbite gives insight into harsh climate...
Elizabeth’s fingers, which she frostbit on Saturday night while setting up tents, are recovering w...
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Interview with Richard Weber...
For the last thirty years, world-renowned polar explorer Richard Weber has traveled and lived in t...
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Interview with Simon Awa...
Simon Awa, Deputy Minister of the Environment for the territory of Nunavut, talked with Global War...
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Images of Iqaluit
As the base camp says goodbye to Iqaluit and moves to Pangnirtung, we want to share some images fro...
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Hudson’s Bay Company - Pangnirtung
For over a thousand years before the arrival of Europeans, Inuit people lived around Pangnirtung Fi...
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Interview with Davidee Kooneeliusie
For thirty-four years Davidee Kooneeliusie has worked for Parks Canada. He regularly explores Auy...
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Country Food
For many Pangnirtung community members, more than ninety percent of their diet comes from “country ...
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Turbot Fishing
A worker in a blue overcoat, yellow rubber gloves, hairnet and white hardhat places turbot fish on...
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Simon's Dog Team
"These dogs to me are kind of interesting because they could obey me, they could love me...if I eve...
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Lukie's Dog Team
"Four of my dogs were born in the summer...the gray ones. They are not quite a year old. I have one...
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Noah Maniapik - Printmaker
Noah Maniapik started drawing when he was a young boy. In 2001 he turned his artistic talents to pr...
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Cumberland Sound
Jamesie Mike
The Global Warming 101 Expedition Team arrived in Pangnirtung on March 10 after skir...
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Fork Beard Glacier
The team at the Fork Beard Glacier
The Global Warming 101 expedition team is mushing through Auyu...
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Polar Bears
A serious expression will come over the faces of hunters and elders when they speak with us about o...
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Permafrost
Anytime you return to a place you lived many years before, you will likely be surprised by changes...
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The Floe Edge
If you’re looking for wildlife around Baffin Island, the ice floe edge is the place to go. The floe...
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UV Radiation
Inuit elders often tell the Global Warming 101 team that they get sunburned much more than in the o...
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Baffin Ice Cap Retreat
After leaving the Inuit village of Pangnirtung, the Global Warming 101team mushed along the edge of...
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Arctic Char
Back at Steger’s Minnesota homestead when we were packing our expedition food, we wondered, “Will ...
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Under the Ice
Charlie Alikatuktuk, a professional clam-diver from Qikiqtarjuaq, prepares to submerge beneath the...
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Clyde River Research
How do people from different communities use sea ice? How is sea ice changing in different parts o...
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The Foxe Basin
The Global Warming 101 Expedition Team will mush along the edge of the Foxe Basin on o...
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Snow on ice
Local people tell us that when the snow comes right after the sea begins to freeze, it can keep the...
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Traditional Knowledge
“The sun rises in a different place than it used to,” the elder told the Global Warming 101 Expedit...
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Expedition Technology
How do you get audio, text, images, and video from the frozen Arctic to connected people everywher...
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Interview with Simon Nattaq
In February of 2001, skilled and respected Inuit hunter Simon Nattaq plunged through the sea ice int...
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Sheila Watt-Cloutier testimony
Inuit activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Shelia Watt-Cloutier testified before the Inter-Americ...
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Quotes from Baffin Island Inuit
Inuit people from across Alaska and Canada delivered a petition to the Inter American Commission on...
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