Editing Fall 2022 Gjoa Haven (section)

=Beyond the Cut=

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Over the course of 7 years, the BearWatch project has- among others:

a) optimized SNP and genetic sex profiling of polar bear feces - allowing non-invasive identification and sexing of individual polar bears, b) optimized meta-barcoding assays that allow the identification of vertebrate prey and plant diet identification from polar bear faeces - allowing non-invasive monitoring of diet switching of genetically tagged individual bears, c) determined the relationship between heavy metal contaminants in a polar bears faeces and it’s muscle, liver and fat profile-  allowing for noninvasive monitoring of spatial and temporal contaminant loads across the Arctic and , d) optimized the species level detection of micro plastic in polar bear faeces - allowing for the real time monitoring of these contaminants in the arctic ecosystem. 

Such non-invasive methods will be most valuable, however, when employed as part of sustainable collaborative efforts between biologists and Inuit communities. 

The insights coming from my wayfaring method and prospective aesthetic action within the BearWatch project, have materialized in insights and spaces that may allow for continued work in Gjoa Haven on renewed terms of engagement. 

Instead of participation and integration of Inuit Knowledge, follow-up research between BearWatch PI's and Gjoa Haven has now been formulated in terms of co-leadership and is preceded by a "setting of the table", which will include the negotiation of knowledge weaving methods and decision-making protocols under guidance of the ICC EEE protocols, and in according with the principles of Ethical Engagement.

No follow-up project has, so far, materialized with-in Coral Harbour.




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