GAPS Newsletter #3
Our third newsletter has now been released. It features:
Evolution of GAPS: Community consultations change the course of the project
Team Workshop: What exactly is Human Security?
Sub-project Updates: Find out what the GAPS researchers have been doing in NWT
Interdisciplinary Research: Using human security to manage invasive nonindigenous plants
Conferences: Researchers have attended many conferences – get the scoop [...]
Yellowknife Conferences Rendezvous
This past summer, Gunhild Hoogensen gave a keynote presentation to the 14th International Congress on Circumpolar Health in Yellowknife, NT. Affiliated student researchers Julia Christensen and Alana Kronstal also presented their GAPS research at the congress while GAPS and IRIS web coordinator Rajiv Rawat served on the organizing committee and secretariat. An audio podcast of [...]
Conference: Strengthening the Ecojustice Movement
Strengthening the Ecojustice Movement:
How Will Disenfranchised Peoples Adapt to Climate Change?
Two-Day Conference
April 16-17, 2009
April 16th – Founders Assembly Hall
April 17th – The Underground
Community activists and activist scientists from Brazil, India, South Africa, and Arctic Canada will share stories of local vulnerabilities to climate change, and discuss strategies for addressing inequities in climate change causation, mitigation, [...]
Newsletter No. 2 now available
Check out our second newsletter covering April 2007 until April 2008.
Update from Julia
2008 has been a very busy year so far. I have spent the last five months in Inuvik and Yellowknife, conducting fieldwork for my doctoral research which forms part of the GAPS project. My research looks at the relationship between housing insecurity and homelessness in the Northwest Territories and how this relationship is affected by [...]
Snapshots from Fort Simpson
Julia wins Trudeau Scholarship
Yellowknife native and GAPS co-investigator, Julia Christensen, just won the prestigious Trudeau Scholarship for 2008. Her PhD and IPY research is entitled Homeless in a Homeland: Housing (in)Security and Resource Development in the NWT. Julia was also profiled in a full page spread of the Yellowknifer.
The Trudeau Scholarship is Canada’s most [...]
First Newsletter Published
Our first GAPS Initiative newsletter has just been released. You can download it (PDF format) in its entirely here.
CBC: Investigators in the News
One of our investigators, Julia Christensen, was on CBC North News recently. Check out the story!
Northern youth art, writing to join International Polar Year snapshot
Last Updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2008
CBC News
Young people from across Canada’s North will be invited to write, photograph, draw and paint their way into International Polar Year research by taking part [...]
Welcome!
Welcome to the GAPS webpage! GAPS is a fully endorsed International Polar Year (IPY) project and is funded through the Norwegian and Canadian IPY programs.
GAPS is a multi-national, multi-disciplinary initiative that aims to examine the scope and range of human security in the Arctic. GAPS specifically focuses on the impacts of oil and [...]
Circumpolar News- Indigenous peoples in Brussels
- "Petrozavodsk" has split in two
- 70th anniversary of the end of the Winter War
- Rent-a-forest scheme promises to save Russia's taiga
- Increased seismic activity near south Iceland volcano
- To Arctic animals, time of day really doesn't matter
- Gender equity in Indian Registration Act
- Arctic 'doomsday vault' growing
- Coast Guard: Icebreaker to be reactivated by 2013
- Warmest, driest winter in Canadian record books, Environment Canada says
