The community of Sanikiluaq in Nunavut, Canada has long been involved in collecting local and traditional knowledge of the environment and environmental change. In 1997, much of this work was published in the seminal book Voices from the Bay. ELOKA will help the community augment the material presented in Voices from the Bay in order to update it and link it to other research.
The Municipality of Sanikiluaq's Community-based Monitoring Network and System is a regional network that will manage and catalog a combination of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), community-based monitoring data, and other western scientific data sets that are relevant to the Hudson Bay region. The Municipality of Sanikiluaq will manage and catalog data sets locally and assist communities and sub-regional groups to manage their own data sets, while providing mechanisms to share data between groups and with national and international organizations. Individual monitoring programs designed to monitor changes in the Hudson Bay region will be incorporated into the system to facilitate data sharing and standardization.
| Leads | Lucassie Arragutainaq, Miriam Fleming | |
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| Country | Canada | |
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Belcher Islands and Hudson Bay | |
| Communities | Inuit | |
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Participants at an ELOKA meeting in Sanikiluaq. From left to right, first row: Peter Kattuk, MLA; Lucassie Arragutainaq, Environmental Committee, Mun. of Sanikiluaq; Miriam Fleming, NTK Coordinator; second row: Johnny Kudluarok, Hunter; Chris McNeave, ELOKA; Louisa Meeko, Environmental Committee, Mun. of Sanikiluaq. (Photo courtesy of Chris McNeave)
Rankin
Inlet is an Inuit hamlet situated along the west coast of Hudson
Bay. Read more about Rankin Inlet at the
Pulaarvik
Kablu Friendship Centre Web site.
The Qikiqtani
Inuit Association (QIA) aims to represent the interests
of Inuit of the Baffin Region, Belcher Islands, and the High
Arctic. Visit their Web site for community profiles of these
regions, and to learn about current QIA programs and projects.