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  5m 9s

  Wayne Davidson on Atmospheric Refraction

  uploaded by: John Hodgins

  channel: More Voices on Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change

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

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  Wayne Davidson on Refraction

  uploaded by: John Hodgins

  channel: More Voices on Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change

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

   

   

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  1m 32s

  Wayne Davidson on Dirty Energy

  uploaded by: John Hodgins

  channel: More Voices on Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change

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

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  12m 57s

  Wayne Davidson - Testing Ice Thickness and Cloud Patterns

  uploaded by: John Hodgins

  channel: More Voices on Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change

  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.

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  3m 59s

  Wayne Davidson and The Weather Balloon

  uploaded by: John Hodgins

  channel: More Voices on Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change

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

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  Siila Watt-Cloutier's Address at The Lafontaine-Baldwin Symposium, Iqaluit 2009

  uploaded by: John Hodgins

  channel: Siila

  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

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  Full Interview with Public Health Nurse, Marcus Wilcke in Pangnirtung, NU

  uploaded by: John Hodgins

  channel: More Voices on Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change

  Marcus Wilcke has been a Public Health Nurse in Pangnirtung, Nunavut for over 20 years.  He discusses the various changes in the health of the community over the years and the possible connections to climate change. 

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  4m 47s

  Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change: Elisapee Ishulutak

  uploaded by: John Hodgins

  channel: More Voices on Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change

  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.

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  3m 37s

  Elisapee Ishulutak on Traditional Medicine, White Ravens and Animal Health

  uploaded by: John Hodgins

  channel: More Voices on Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change

  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

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  Elisapee Ishulutak on Polar Bears

  uploaded by: John Hodgins

  channel: More Voices on Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change

  English Transcript: We never had bears. Sometimes we would go polar bear hunting way out there and we'd come back with nothing. Not very often someone would get a bear because there was none in our area...They say there are bears around, a lot of them, that's what I hear. There were no bear in this area.

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  2m 16s

  Elisapee Ishulutak on how it used to be

  uploaded by: John Hodgins

  channel: More Voices on Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change

  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.

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  40m 55s

  Full Interview with Conservation Biologist Dominique Berteaux, PhD

  uploaded by: John Hodgins

  channel: More Voices on Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change

  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. 

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