Meet the North in Antarctica
It’s time to take the northern perspective south and check out the other pole. Jennifer Kingsley joins the National Geographic Explorer in Ushuaia this week, and she’ll be on board until the end of January 2016.
Author: Jennifer Kingsley
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Inuit science
“Inuit are the original Arctic scientists. We experiment by testing the sea ice thickness. We observe the environment by checking the weather. And we repeat it to make sure it won’t kill us. Our survival has relied on these techniques for a long time.” This is Justin Milton, a teenager, communicator and emerging scientist from Pond…
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Arctic Deeply: Launch!
Arctic Deeply is dedicated to the north, and it officially joined the media landscape this week. We’ll be working with this site in the coming months, and here’s what it’s all about: The rapid retreat of Arctic sea ice is creating economic, social and environmental challenges that call for global discussion and new policies. But…
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Overplanning kills the magic
Visiting Vancouver and here it is, right in front of me, Meet the North spirit. Listening is the key.
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Nunavut mayor talks climate
A couple of the smiling faces who showed up to for Ottawa’s Climate March this weekend and listened to Clyde River Mayor Jerry Natanine speak on changing ice conditions and life in the Arctic. “I’ve never spoken to this many people,” Natanine said, but he was eloquent and clear for this audience of 25,000. These…
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Everybody should have a photographer
Photographers. #meetthenorth has been very fortunate in this department. Look at this face! (And how much he can eat.) Tips for working with Eric Guth. He needs (1) enough coffee (2) enough sleep (3) enough food – in that order. (I might be projecting on #3.) It starts with the outstanding photography rooted in story,…
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Embrace the unexpected
Well, maybe think twice before you actually embrace it. Depends on what it is. “Murder at the Coal Mine?” Longyearbyen, Svalbard. June 2015. Photo Eric Guth
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Jennifer Kingsley becomes RCGS Fellow
On November 18th, 2015, Jennifer Kingsley became a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. The Society’s annual dinner at the Canadian Museum of History had a few unforgettable moments with very cool Canadians: listening to James Keelaghan live, hearing Wade Davis speak about Survival, and experiencing a musical performance by Margaret Atwood. (Yes, that Margaret Atwood.) She sang a hit by the Arrogant…
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Giving thanks
It’s been six months since I boarded the first of many airplanes to explore the first of many communities for #meetthenorth. I’d recently been sponsored by Lindblad-Expeditions-National Geographic and joined their community of curious, engaged travelers. I was given a mission: travel the north, listen to its stories, and share. The work has just begun,…
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Meet the North, we’ve only just begun
Meet the North is a project about the lives of northerners from Svalbard to Greenland, Iceland, the Canadian Arctic, and beyond. We listen and learn from the four million people who call the top of the world their home; we believe that their stories are an essential and often forgotten part of a land that is…
