This morning on the show we heard a special report from Briyan Grimwood entitled ‘Soundscapes of the North’. Bryan has been part of an SSHRC funded research project, travelling to Gjoa Haven, Nunavut as part of a research initiative for the International Polar Year. This segment documents some of the diverse soundscapes of the north experienced during his trip, and some conversations with some of the people he has been working with.
Later, Carol Hunsberger spoke with Laura Tucker, an environmental studies major who worked with Transport Canada on a research project on Arctic shipping routes. She presented the report’s findings at a meeting of hundreds of polar researchers in Whitehorse. They talked about some of her experiences, as well as Canada’s political strategies for dealing with Northern issues.
It was fun listening to the sounds of the North, and Prof. Laidler’s recent inclusions. I, too, liken the wind in the south with Arctic breezes. Even if it is the wind in the top of palm trees, or northern pines; like smell, something essential in the brain is triggered. The snow scrunching brought me back to many winter days spent ice fishing on Lake Nipissing…somethings never change.