Sea-Ice Monitoring

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, February 15, 2010 at 23:52
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Weather: -21c and sunny

Clyde River (Kanngiqtugaapik), Nunavut – What a fantastic day! Luc, our cameraman, Jean, our soundman and myself went off this morning to interview Teema Qillaq for my story on Siku-Inuit-Hila. That’s a sea ice project that’s brought together hunters and elders from Alaska, Canada and Greenland so they can talk to each other about how climate change is affecting the sea ice in their respective communities.

Part of that project includes setting up low-tech, but highly-effective sea ice monitoring stations in each community.

Teema is the hunter who mans the sea ice stations in Clyde River. And he was kind enough to take us out today to show us around.

He obviously loves taking care of the stations and he was more than patient with our many… MANY … questions about how the stations worked. It was a real pleasure to spend the morning with him.

Video: Teema Qillaq describes his work measuring the ice.
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Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic

Eilís Quinn is an award-winning journalist and manages Radio Canada International’s Eye on the Arctic news cooperation project. Eilís has reported from the Arctic regions of all eight circumpolar countries and has produced numerous documentary and multimedia series about climate change and the issues facing Indigenous peoples in the North.

Her investigative report "Death in the Arctic: A community grieves, a father fights for change," about the murder of Robert Adams, a 19-year-old Inuk man from Arctic Quebec, received the silver medal for “Best Investigative Article or Series” at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards. The project also received an honourable mention for excellence in reporting on trauma at the 2019 Dart Awards in New York City.

Her report “The Arctic Railway: Building a future or destroying a culture?” on the impact a multi-billion euro infrastructure project would have on Indigenous communities in Arctic Europe was a finalist at the 2019 Canadian Association of Journalists award in the online investigative category.

Her multimedia project on the health challenges in the Canadian Arctic, "Bridging the Divide," was a finalist at the 2012 Webby Awards.

Her work on climate change in the Arctic has also been featured on the TV science program Découverte, as well as Le Téléjournal, the French-Language CBC’s flagship news cast.

Eilís has worked for media organizations in Canada and the United States and as a TV host for the Discovery/BBC Worldwide series "Best in China."

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