International Polar Conference – Webcast

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, April 23, 2012 at 15:55
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Over 2,000 scientists from around the world are gathered in Montreal, Canada this week for the International Polar Year 2012 Conference.

Topics at the week-long conference range from environment, to health, to polar science and climate adaptation.

Speakers include everyone from Aqqaluk Lynge, Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) and President of ICC-Greenland to Mary Simon, President of Canada’s national Inuit organization, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.

If you’re not in Montreal, you can still catch webcasts from the conference.

To sign in and watch, click here.

The conference runs from April 22 to April 27.

Eye on the Arctic will bring you updates from the conference throughout the week.

Related Links:

International Polar Year 2012 Conference

Feature Interview: Canada hosts international Polar conference, The Link, Radio Canada International

International conference to discuss ‘dramatic’ Arctic changes, CBC.ca

Write to Eilís Quinn at eilis.quinn(at)cbc.ca

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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