IHE11-Tools and Adaptations for Safe Travel in Inuit Nunangat

Community members across Inuit Nunangat travel extensively on land, water, and sea ice. Climate change, including changing sea ice and increasingly unpredictable weather patterns, has made it riskier and harder for people to travel and hunt safely. Inuit knowledge supporting safe travel is also changing and is shared less between generations. Inuit increasingly use online weather, marine, and ice products to develop locally relevant forecasts. This helps to make decisions according to wind, waves, precipitation, visibility, sea ice conditions, and floe edge location. Knowledgeable land users, community organizations, and research partnerships are developing new tools, monitoring programs, and ways of sharing knowledge and information to support travel safety. In this session we encourage presentations to share examples and experiences in developing new tools and adaptation strategies from community perspectives.  This may include, but is not limited to:

•             Hunting and harvesting

•             Fisheries

•             Shipping

Co-Chairs:

Natasha Simonee, Independent Researcher
Natalie Carter, McMaster University