Education through expedition...

In August 2010, a team of 9 University students and graduates from a wide range of disciplines (including Earth Science, Geology, Geography, Zoology, Linguistics and Film Studies), trainee teachers and mountain guides will depart from the UK on an expedition in the Auyuittuq National Park, Baffin Island, Arctic Canada.

Ironically, ‘Auyuittuq’ is Inuktituk for “the land that never melts”. However climate change is having a significant impact on our polar regions. Our team aims to assess the effect of climate change on the landscape of Baffin Island and also on the Inuit people and wildlife.

Our team leader Antony Jinman runs his own school outreach programme in which he introduces students to our fragile arctic environment, the wildlife and the Inuit people. Primary and secondary school students will be able to follow the expedition through our online blog and can ask questions free of charge to the satellite phone which we will carry out in the field. These questions will then be answered by sending text and photographs to the online blog.

We will be making a series of films and educational resources which will be made available free of charge to schools, to make the classroom come alive, making it a fun and inspiring environment to learn in.

We would like to ask for your support in this venture. Any support you may be able to give, financial or otherwise, would be extremely gratefully received and would help us to conduct potentially life-changing research, reporting credible eye witness accounts of the frontline of climate change.
In return, we can offer numerous opportunities for the promotion of your company, including branding opportunities on equipment and clothing against a stunning backdrop and branding and advertising in the resulting film and the media coverage of the expedition in publications all over the country.