We are spending the week in Iqaluit, Nunavut working closely with our partners in Qaujigiartiit Health Research Centre (QHRC) with a focus on one thing: the data of climate change.
There are a significant number of climate change monitoring projects ongoing right now across the territory tracking sea ice change, the effects on permafrost and trying to determine just how deep this Chinese led hoax to damage the American economy goes. QHRC is leading an initiative to bring these projects around the same table this week and determine the best way to sync all of these projects together, while still respecting and preserving their privacy and the unique qualities of each project.
Pinnguaq is proud to have been invited around the table to help lead the analysis of the data and to create recommendations around how the data pulled from each project can be made comparable on a macro level. Ryan Oliver, Chelsea Singoorie and Reagan McFadden will be representing Pinnguaq at these meetings making recommendations and performing analysis that takes into account the type of data being analysed, where that analysis is being done and what each unique project aims to accomplish.
We have always envisioned The Pinnguaq Association as ‘enablers.’ We aim to provide tech solutions, build capacity and offer access to solutions that aren’t immediately available in the territory. We’re excited to be able to move that mission forward around climate change and to partner with QHRC, who does so much good work around health and wellness in the territory.