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Learn more about the work that Andrew Arreak and Katherine Wilson are doing with Sikumiut in Mittimatalik, Nunavut.

Gita Ljubicic was announced as the new Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Community-Engaged Research for Northern Sustainability.  Read the full story “Four McMaster researchers named Canada Research Chairs“. Gita would like to express her thanks for all the kinds words of support received in response to this announcement. “This CRC position is a reflection… Read More

Congratulations to Jason Carpenter on his award-winning Arctic Change 2020 poster!  Jason’s poster on Iqalungmiut Uses and Needs of Weather, Water, Ice and Climate (WWIC) Information and Services – Preliminary Results won second place for the Social and Health Science Graduate Poster Award and received the Indigenous Science Poster to Publication Award in Arctic Science…. Read More

Congratulations to Katherine Wilson and co-authors on the first publication to come from her PhD research working with Sikumiut in Mittimattalik (Pond Inlet, Nunavut)! Natalie Carter and Gita Ljubicic were also involved in recent papers led by Dominique Henri (on co-management of light geese in Nunavut), Sean Robertson (on Inuit values and homelands in Gjoa… Read More

On October 1, 2020 we had our first SUN team meeting of the new academic year, and welcomed the largest group of SUN team students to date! This includes 15 graduate and undergraduate students, including new this fall: MA students Alexis Polidoro, Regena Sinclair and Kraig Matthews Undergraduate thesis student Jared Chestnut Undergraduate independent study… Read More

Regena Sinclair joined the SUN Team as a Research Assistant this summer working on our project to understand Inuit community uses and needs for weather, water, ice and climate information and services. She brings extensive geomatics experience and has worked with First Nations communities in British Columbia on a range of treaty, lands, archaeology, and… Read More

Congratulations Emmelie Paquette on defending your MSc thesis “Potential impacts of sea ice and ship traffic change to caribou sea ice crossing areas surrounding King William Island, Nunavut, Canada“! Many thanks to everyone involved, especially Cheryl Johnson (ECCC) and Derek Mueller (Carleton) for your collaborative supervision, Jackie Dawson and Melissa Weber (UOttawa) for shipping data,… Read More

Congratulations to Elder Nellie Winters on the release of her new book! Winters is a plant mentor who worked with Erica Oberndorfer on the People and Plants project in Makkovik, Nunatsiavut. This book is one of the many creative efforts inspired by their work together. Published by Inhabit Education: https://inhabiteducation.com/2020/05/14/reflections-from-them-days-a-residential-school-memoir-from-nunatsiavut/ For more on the book… Read More

The School of Geography & Earth Sciences at McMaster has been renamed the School of Earth, Environment & Society effective July 6th, 2020.