Since the 1980s, Greg Henry, a tundra ecologist from the University of British Columbia, has been leading research focused on understanding the effects of warming temperatures on High Arctic tundra ecosystems. This research, based out of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, has been critical in forming the understanding we have today of how global warming – which is three times greater in high northern latitudes than the global average – is affecting Arctic ecosystems, and by extension the global climate.
Now, after more than 40 summers and 10 cumulative years of research and adventures under the High Arctic midnight sun, he’s retiring. And with no one to take over his research, he is shutting it all down this summer, 2023, after one final field season. It’s the end of an era.
Amplis Foto is joining Greg and his research crew this summer to document it all – in the hopes that we can help tell a story that will educate and inspire viewers about the science, history, and importance of this remote and beautiful part of the world.
Sofie
Jakob
Thank you for the amazing photos & raising awareness of the warming of our North & the effect climate change is real, like today, an emergency almost. I worry about my 2 young grandchildren’s future!
Maintaining this research in the North is very important work.
Hi Beth, Thanks and we appreciate your comment!