Media

2024

• CBC Radio: Missing Russian data in the Arctic is causing gaps in research

2023

• La Presse: Le réchauffement de l’Arctique comme si vous y étiez (Arctic warming as if you were there)
• Globe and Mail: Ottawa’s research ‘superchairs’ aim to delve deep into Arctic warming, biosensors and more
• UBC Faculty of Forestry News: Isla Myers-Smith, UBC team and Northern collaborators awarded CERC funding
• UBC News: World-leading scientists named Canada Excellence Research Chairs at UBC
• Coverage of AWE VR Prize: National Geographic Explorers win award for visualizing Arctic climate change: APTN, CBC Radio, CabinRadio.ca, Radio Canada, CBC News, Globe and Mail, CTV, National Post, etc.
• The Guardian: Svalbard: the Arctic islands where we can see the future of global heating
• Scotsman: Climate change: Arctic ‘greening’ is accelerating global warming in more ways than one – Professor Isla Myers-Smith

2022

• National Geographic Creative Works: The greening of the Arctic tundra
• WIRED: Why the Arctic Is Warming 4 Times as Fast as the Rest of Earth
• Radio Canada: Cinq faits à savoir sur le réchauffement du climat en Arctique, selon une écologue

2021

• National Geographic: 26 changemakers fighting for the planet
• WIRED: The UN Climate Report: All Is Not Well—but All Is Not Lost
• WIRED: More Lightning in the Arctic Is Bad News for the Planet

2020

• WIRED25: Meet This Year’s WIRED25, Climate Change and Saving Our Earth
• Coverage of Assmann et al. ERL 2020 in WIRED: Beautiful Yet Unnerving Photos of the Arctic Getting Greener, STV: https://news.stv.tv/video/edinburgh-scientists-use-drones-to-study-arctic-tundra
• Washington Post: Winter camping is not for the faint of heart. Here’s how to do it.
• Coverage of Cunliffe et al. ERL 2020: EOS Magazine of the American Geophysical Union: Drones Help Bridge the Gaps in Assessing Global Change
• WIRED: Why the Arctic Is Warming So Fast, and Why That’s So Alarming
• Coverage of Daskalova et al. NComms 2020: Common species mirror rare animals’ response to global change
• Coverage of Daskalova et al. Science 2020: Forest loss escalates biodiversity change, How forest loss has changed biodiversity across the globe over the last 150 years
• Arctic Canada – The Culture Cure Podcast: – podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/arctic-canada-the-culture-cure/id1446659881
• Coverage of Thomas et al. NComms 2020: Plant life on the edge
• Coverage of García Criado et al. GEB 2020: Climate shifts prompt shrubs and trees to take root in open areas: Daily Mail, The Herald, The Scotsman, etc.
• Outside/In Podcast: 10X10: Kettle Bog
• WIRED: The Arctic Is Getting Greener
• Coverage of Myers-Smith et al. NCC 2020: Global Science Team on Red Alert as Arctic Lands Grow Greener: WIRED, Daily Mail, etc.

2019

• Coverage of Blowes et al. Science 2019: Washington Post
• CTV: Researchers find Canadian Arctic island coast collapsing up to a metre a day
• New Scientist: How teabags became a secret weapon in the fight against climate change
• Coverage of Cunliffe et al. The Cryosphere 2019: Gizmodo
• Coverage of Assmann et al. GCB 2019: Early melting of winter snowfall advances the Arctic springtime: BBC Radio Scotland (minute 16), physics.org, ScienceDaily
• Science News: Climate change made the Arctic greener. Now parts of it are turning brown.
• Coverage of Myers-Smith et al. Ecol. Mono. 2019: Eighteen years of ecological monitoring reveals multiple lines of evidence for tundra vegetation change

2018

• Royal Geographical Society Walters Kundert Fellowship Press Release: Is the Arctic getting greener?
• Coverage of Bjorkman et al. Nature 2019: Taller plants moving into Arctic because of climate change: BBC, Science Daily, phys.org, Newsweek, etc.
• New Scientist Live!, Public talk at the New Scientist Science Festival – Watch the trailer for Isla’s talk below!
• Fieldwork in the Arctic is surprisingly costly, limiting the research done there, Science News
• Arctic Secrets, Documentary series featuring Team Shrub on Qikiqtaruk, White Pine Pictures

2017

• The Great Global Species Shakeup, Torronto Star
• Capturing change in the Arctic, Vizzuality Blog
• Brewing Big Data: The Tea-Bag Index, BioScience
• Rapid rate of coastal erosion on Herschel Island, CBC News
• Interview clip on the daily morning programme “A New Day”, CBC Radio North

2015

• Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome – Press Releases: Tundra study uncovers impact of climate warming in the Arctic, European Commission JRC, University of Alberta, Woods Hole Research Center, Université de Sherbrooke; English: BBC Science Hour, BBC Science in Action, CBC, Globe and Mail, Yahoo News, Physics Org, Reporting Climate Science, CTV News, Daily Mail; French: Science Presse, La Tribun; German: Die Welt, Stern, Der Standard, Science APA, Science Orf; Swedish: forskning.se
• Invasion of the Shrubs – Up Here Magazine
• Plants Duke It Out in a Warming Arctic – BioScience

2014

• The Polar Sea – Episode 8 Melting Lands, Documentary series featuring Team Shrub on Qikiqtaruk

2013

• Tundra in Turmoil and Repeat Photography Reveals a Changing Climate – Science
• Vegetation May Speed Warming of Arctic – Scientific American

2012

• Telling changes on the tundra – University of Alberta News
• Edmonton biologist on international team monitoring disappearance of Arctic tundra in Canada’s Yukon – Edmonton Journal
• Shrub Hub assesses growth in tundra ecosystems – Environmental Research Web

2009

• Team Shrub is featured in Air North’s inflight magazine article: Young Einsteins: How groundbreaking work at Kluane Lake Research Station is drawing in talented young minds from all over the world – North of Ordinary Magazine
• Interview clip on the daily morning programme “A New Day ” –  CBC Radio North

2004

• Myers-Smith IH. Sound Off Column “Global change crystal clear, if not glamorous” Vancouver Sun: Friday, December 31, 2004.

Last moments of reflection by the lake before heading back to Whitehorse.

Some say they inspired a nation

Team Drone

Team Kluane