Policy-makers are connecting with indigenous peoples through the Snowchange Cooperative to develop Arctic climate change policies. Tero Mustonen, founder of the Snowchange Co-op, describes the... Read more
Episode 2 - Signs of the Land
Rivers are the highways of interior Alaska, but climate change is making travel treacherous. Alaska Native Elders come together at the Signs of the Land camp to discuss the past and plan for the... Read more
Episode 3 - Repeat Photography
You could spend your days in a lab analyzing samples…or you could trek across the Arctic, re-taking images from over 100 years ago. Follow the adventures of ecologist Ken Tape as he captures the... Read more
Arctic communities in North America are subjected to more fires every year, which have impacted the local wildlife. University of Alberta professor Mike Flannigan describes how rapid warming in the... Read more
Episode 5 - Locked in the Permafrost
Frozen soils, or permafrost, can perfectly preserve animals and plants for thousands of years. But some of these ancient soils are also storing huge volumes of greenhouse gases that will be released... Read more
Episode 6 - Finding Food in a Warming Climate
Food insecurity is an issue that Arctic communities are facing as a result of climate change. Landscape changes are altering the migration patterns of some Arctic animals, making it difficult to... Read more
Perspectives on Episode 1- Dr. Tero Mustonen, part 1
Dr. Tero Mustonen is the Chief of the village of Selkie, Finland, and an Arctic scholar specializing in Arctic biodiversity, climate change and Indigenous issues. He is the co-founder of the... Read more
Perspectives on Episode 1- Dr. Tero Mustonen, part 2
Dr. Tero Mustonen is the Chief of the village of Selkie, Finland, and an Arctic scholar specializing in Arctic biodiversity, climate change and Indigenous issues. He is the co-founder of the... Read more
Perspectives on Episode 1- Dr. Tero Mustonen, part 3
Dr. Tero Mustonen is the Chief of the village of Selkie, Finland, and an Arctic scholar specializing in Arctic biodiversity, climate change and Indigenous issues. He is the co-founder of the... Read more
Perspectives on Episode 2- Sam Demientieff
Sam Demientieff was born near the Yukon River in the Deg Xit'an village of Holy Cross. He spent his childhood navigating Interior Alaska by riverboat. He has lived in Fairbanks since childhood and... Read more
Perspectives on Episode 3- Ken Tape, part 1
Dr. Ken Tape is an ecologist and research assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Northern Engineering Water and Environmental Research Center. He studies the impact of... Read more
Perspectives on Episode 3- Ken Tape, part 2
Dr. Ken Tape is an ecologist and research assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Northern Engineering Water and Environmental Research Center. He studies the impact of... Read more
Perspectives on Episode 3- Ken Tape, part 2
Dr. Ken Tape is an ecologist and research assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Northern Engineering Water and Environmental Research Center. He studies the impact of... Read more
Perspectives on Episode 4- Roy David, Sr.
Roy David, Sr. is an elder from Tetlin, Alaska. He grew up living a traditional subsistence lifestyle of hunting, trapping, fishing, and gardening. Roy David worked on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, as... Read more
Perspectives on Episode 4- Mike Flannigan, part 1
Dr. Mike Flannigan is a professor with the Department of Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta and the Director of the Western Partnership for Wildland Fire Science located at the... Read more
Perspectives on Episode 4- Mike Flannigan, part 2
Dr. Mike Flannigan is a professor with the Department of Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta and the Director of the Western Partnership for Wildland Fire Science located at the... Read more
Perspectives on Episode 4- Mike Flannigan, part 3
Dr. Mike Flannigan is a professor with the Department of Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta and the Director of the Western Partnership for Wildland Fire Science located at the... Read more
Perspectives on Episode 5- Margareta Johansson
Dr. Margareta Johansson is a researcher in the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystems Science at Lund University as well as executive secretary at INTERACT—a consortium of circum-Arctic... Read more
Perspectives on Episode 5- Ted Schuur lab, part 1
Dr. Ted Schuur is currently a professor of ecosystem ecology at Northern Arizona University and oversees the Ecosystem Dynamics Research Lab. While Polar Voices was conducting interviews, the Schuur... Read more
Perspectives on Episode 5- Ted Schuur lab, part 2
Dr. Ted Schuur is currently a professor of ecosystem ecology at Northern Arizona University and oversees the Ecosystem Dynamics Research Lab. While Polar Voices was conducting interviews, the Schuur... Read more
Perspectives on Episode 5- Ted Schuur lab, part 3
Dr. Ted Schuur is currently a professor of ecosystem ecology at Northern Arizona University and oversees the Ecosystem Dynamics Research Lab. While Polar Voices was conducting interviews, the Schuur... Read more
Perspectives on Episode 6- Norma Kassi, part 1
Norma Kassi is co-founder and Director of Indigenous Collaboration at the Arctic Institute of Community-Based Research. Over the last 30 years, she has worked on issues related to contaminants, food... Read more
Perspectives on Episode 6- Norma Kassi, part 2
Norma Kassi is co-founder and Director of Indigenous Collaboration at the Arctic Institute of Community-Based Research. Over the last 30 years, she has worked on issues related to contaminants, food... Read more
Perspectives on Episode 6- Craig Gerlach
Dr. Craig Gerlach is the Academic Coordinator for Sustainability at the University of Calgary and a professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology. Prior to joining the University of... Read more
Perspectives on Episode 6- Heidi Swanson
Dr. Heidi Swanson is an assistant professor and university research chair at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. She studies the response of aquatic food webs to climate change and the... Read more
Episode 7- Upwards and northwards: tree line advancement in the alpine, subarctic and Arctic.
As the Arctic warms, the limits of where trees can grow are slowly shifting up mountains and further north. Researchers at the Kluane Lake Research Station in Yukon, Canada are trying to determine... Read more
Epidsode 8 - Warm, thaw, repeat: how the degradation of permafrost will amplify climate change
Frozen soils (or permafrost) in the Arctic are thawing, destabilizing the ground surface and damaging buildings and roads. Although infrastructure is crumbling, scientists are more concerned with the... Read more
Episode 9 - How Yukon glaciers are responding to climate change
Many glaciers in the Kluane Region are fed by a massive reservoir of snow and ice that sits on top of the St. Elias Mountains. Glaciologists are studying how global warming is affecting the physical... Read more
Episode 10 - The Disappearing Frozen Ocean
Sea ice is rapidly decreasing due to accelerated warming in the Arctic. Animals, subsistence hunters, and researchers who rely on the frozen surface are adapting to less ice while trying to preserve... Read more
Episode 11 - Vulnerable Coasts
Coastlines everywhere are hit by waves and storms from rising seas that can eat away at the shoreline, but Arctic coasts once frozen in place by permafrost are especially susceptible to coastal... Read more
Episode 12 - Arctic Connection: Community Collaborations in Research
Arctic inhabitants are taking research into their own hands. Rather than letting scientists determine what needs to be studied, Inuit communities in Canada are determining what questions they need... Read more
