LOCATION: CanadaIan Mauro is a Canada Research Chair in "human dimensions of environmental change" at Mount Allison University, in New Brunswick.
He is both a researcher and filmmaker, with a PhD in environmental science, and his work focuses on hunter, farmer and fisher knowledge regarding environmental change, specifically issues related to food security and global warming.
As part of his doctorate, he co-directed "Seeds of Change" (www.seedsofchangefilm.org), a highly controversial film that focused on farmer experience regarding agbiotechnology in Canada. The film has been viewed over 1.5 million times online and is used by universities around the world.
For his postdoctorate, Mauro teamed up with Zacharias Kunuk and Igloolik Isuma Productions to develop "Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change", the world's first Inuktitut language film on the topic. The film is available for free on our website (www.isuma.tv/ikcc).
Mauro continues his collaboration with IsumaTV and is leading a large-scale video project focused on climate change adaptation in Atlantic Canada. He can be contacted through email at imauro@mta.ca
Uploads by Ian Mauro
Inuit are telling us their climate change stories in their mother tongue - the Inuktitut language. It's important that the elders and hunters are speaking in their own language, given that their...
Inuit Knowledge & Climate Change Video Invited to COP-15 in Copenhagen
Interact with
filmmakers Zacharias Kunuk and Ian Mauro during live weekly webcasts from
Igloolik every Thursday from 8-10...
We've been hearing from Inuit about the Arctic getting warmer. Today's post includes a video upload featuring Alukie Metuq from Pangnirtung. In it, Alukie talks about the intense heat of the past...
We've gone through an interview with Lukie Airut, an Igloolik-based
carver and hunter, and he has great stories to share. In particular, he
told us that he had recently seen a grizzly bear near town...
Inuit
we've spoken with believe that nanuuit - polar bears - are increasing in
abundance. The
stories of elders clearly indicate that in the past this great animal was not
seen often, but when it was...
