As the coastline changes rapidly reshaping the marine landscape and jeopardizing the hunt Inuit youth are charting ways to preserve the hunt, and their identity.
A gene variant present in as many as 1 in 1,500 Inuit is connected to potentially fatal infections from viruses, including those in a select few childhood vaccines.
Blaire Gould, executive director for Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey, is not surprised Nova Scotia's Indigenous education authority is among a group of high-tech innovators set to receive an award from the Governor General's Rideau Hall Foundation.
(Dr. Jackie Dawson, Dr. Natalie Carter, Ms. Natasha Simonee, Ms. Shirley Tagalik)
The team led by Dr. Jackie Dawson and including Dr. Natalie Carter, Ms. Natasha Simonee, and Ms. Shirley Tagalik, receives a Governor General s Innovation Award for their innovative integration of traditional Inuit knowledge and western science. Their work is leading to the creation of new routes for Arctic shipping that better protect culturally significant marine areas. The project supports national and international ocean policy and has made the region a global leader in self-determined science.
Nominated by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
(Dr. Xiaoyi Bao)
Dr. Xiaoyi Bao transformed the field of structural monitoring with her invention of Distributed Acoustic Sensor (DAS), an ultra-sensitive and precise optical fiber-based technology installed in civil structures, and capable of detecting dynamic stress and high and low frequency vibrations indicative of crack for
Seafood has an important role in order to achieve the United Nation’s sustainability goal to eradicate hunger by 2030. Seafood from the Arctic should be on the agenda.
2021 marks the start of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, while we are half way through the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025). Safe and healthy seafood for all is important, and to achieve this, sustainable harvesting and sourcing novel resources are vital.
The ocean is a pillar of life, as well as an under-recognized provider of nutritious food and livelihoods. One of many important roles of the Arctic is to contribute to sustainable food production from land and sea. Increased global availability and consumption of aquatic food may prevent hidden hunger, malnutrition and help combat non-communicable diseases. The potential of an increased seafood harvest may include lower trophic level, aquaculture and new marine resources to enhance the marine biomass in fish feed.Thus, it is