The Living North

As an early-career scientist, Kayla has spent multiple summers working with researchers on all kinds of exciting projects, like caribou habitat use and muskox ecology. But, she also grew up in this landscape with her family. Join us as she shares her unique perspective on the Yukon North Slope.

In this episode, developing a management framework for muskox on Yukon's North Slope.

A podcast discussing the ways that the Wildlife Management Conservation Plan includes Traditional Knowledge to enhance important land use documents.

Online information is key for sharing information in today's world. Jen Parrot is one of the people using technologies like online mapping to document traditional knowledge. Parrot is the Spatial Project Coordinator for the Invialuit Regional Corporation.

At the 2015 North Slope Conference, she talked about best practices for using online tools to document traditional knowledge. Here's her presentation.

As a lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law's Aboriginal and Natural Resources law team, Hannah Askew works on issues that affect land, resources, and wildlife management. Askew is a lawyer, but she also holds a Masters' degrees in history and in anthropology.

Evelyn Storr speaks about how youth contribute to the work of transmitting traditional knowledge

James Pokiak is a harvester from Tuktoyaktuk, and Brenda Parlee teaches and researches at the University of Alberta. These two have worked together closely to bring together traditional knowledge (TK) and western scientific method of understanding the environment when it comes to wildlife management across the North.

For too long, Inuvialuit Traditional Knowledge has not been included in scientific research about polar bears in the North. Traditional knowledge holders across the Inuvialuit Settlement Region took part in changing that with a groundbreaking report. In this episode of The Living North, traditional knowledge holders and scientists talk about what the report brings to understanding Northern polar bear populations.

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This episode, we're talking TK: traditional knowledge, that is. Peter Armitage is an Anthropologist based in St. John's, Newfoundland. He has worked with the Innu Nation in Labrador for more than 30 years. In this lecture he shares his thoughts on how to bring together science and traditional knowledge for the benefit of all.