4 Adults (18 years and over)

 Apea Sowdluapik from Pangnirtung speaks about environmental health problems linked to climate change.

Apea Sowdluapik from Pangnirtung speaks about the impacts of climate change.

"These days the wind changes direction quickly.  Weather would be good and then bad all of a sudden.  That's how it is today.

In the past, spring would have good and long weather.  It didn't change suddenly.  Now the wind changes suddenly.

English Transcript:

We were out boating and egg picking and we saw a strange bird. It had long legs, it was grey, and we thought it came from the south.

She saw something round with wings, it was very small, she didn't know what it was. It was the first time she had seen it.

Alukie Metuq from Pangnirtung speaks about changes in the weather. "In February, last year, they had bad weather, and the land melted and the temperature was even plus five. Last year, I really noticed, it was different. The ice went early. It was really hot. When the summer came, it was even hotter.… Uqalimakkanirit

 Alukie Metuq from Pangnirtung speaks about climate change.

Resolute Bay Meteorological Observer, Wayne Davidson explains how images of the sun appear differently because of atmospheric refraction. 

Meteorological Observer Wayne Davidson shows a simple but effective example of refraction occurring in water.

Meteorological Observer Wayne Davidson talks about the dangers of dirty energy and the effects on the North.

Meteorological Observer Wayne Davidson and his team demonstrate how the thinkness of the ice is tested. He also discusses normal cloud formation and weather prediction.

Pangnirtung Meteorological Observer Wayne Davidson shows how weather balloons work and discusses the standard weather prediction methods.

Siila Watt-Cloutier, Officer of the Order of Canada and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee is an International Inuit leader and activist.  In Iqaluit in 2009, she addresses the 9th Annual Lafontaine-Baldwin Symposium on Canada's North, Inuit wisdom, and Inuit resiliency in the face of climate change and a rapidly changing cultural landscape.  In English with a preface in Inuktitut. <… Uqalimakkanirit

Elisapee Ishulutak, Pangnirtung's oldest resident, discusses climate change.  

It use to be steaming fog from the shore and the dog teams would be coming. You could hear their breathing. You could hear them coming in the fog. It was cold. That was wonderful.

English Transcript: Back then, nobody hardly got sick because we were the only family out there. Nowadays, everyone is mingling amongst communities, and we get sick. It was not like that before. Sometimes we would get sick and use things from the land to heal us, like mushrooms and their powder and longs from a rabbit we'd use as band-aids, and tissue from ujuk fat.… Uqalimakkanirit

English Transcript: The weather was not like this. It used to be good. Now it's different. We hunted for clothing in that area while the fur was thin. We used to row and portage. That's how it was.

Dominique Berteaux, PhD, is a Conservation Biologist at the University of Quebec at Rimouski.  He discusses at length his studies with fox species, among other things, and the effects of climate change on wildlife in the Canada's North.