Learn more about the Government of Canada's International
Polar Year Education and Outreach Initiative
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
The People of a Feather and The Arctic Sea Ice project is an interdisciplinary education and outreach initiative that combines Inuit,
scientific and filmmaking approaches to document and broadly disseminate knowledge about sea ice ecosystems and environmental
change in the Arctic.
The outreach project evolved from the use of multi-media techniques (video and timelapse photography) to quantify sea ice dynamics
and associated wildlife winter ecology. Our objective under funding from International Polar Year is to use existing materials,
field infrastructure and high definition production capacity to complete and broadly distribute a feature documentary (People of
a Feather) and a multi-media educational package (The Arctic Sea Ice) for schools, interpretation centers and independent study.
Due to an interdisciplinary approach, the project also includes training and capacity for a multi-scale community-based research and
monitoring program.
Project Leader: Dr. Joel Heath, University of British Columbia
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