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Jennings is founder of Arctic ICCE (Indigenous Climate Change
Ethnographies), an initiative to create an ethnographic, videotaped record
of traditional Inuit knowledge about Arctic climate change. Jennings will
circumnavigate the Arctic in 2006, visiting six Inuit communities and
recording residents' stories about changes to Arctic climate, wildlife and
related systems and how those changes are affecting Inuit lives and culture.
The project's goals are to gather information that may be of use now in
understanding the effects of Global Warming on the far north and to provide
a record for the future of life in the Arctic during this period of dramatic
change. The project has been endorsed by the Inuit Circumpolar Conference,
a United Nations NGO.
Ms. Jennings
has covered the Arctic
as a journalist since 1978. She is a former documentary producer for the
Alaska Public Television Network and a former correspondent for CONUS, a
national television consortium. She has provided freelance coverage of
Arctic issues for NBC News, BBC Radio and Radio Australia. In 2004, she
documented the last full-time Thule Inuit subsistence hunters in Siorapaluk,
Greenland which is the most northerly community on earth.
Jennings
is currently a senior vice president with the international communications
firm of Fleishman-Hillard, providing strategic communications counsel to
major corporations and institutions. She has a degree in biology from
Plymouth State University in New Hampshire and studied environmental science
at the University of Maine.
Email:
m.jennings@conservationinstitute.org
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