Online Environmental Science Education Resources

We are working to produce content available on YouTube that explores a wide range of topics in environmental science education. Check back regularly for new material. We are excited to begin working on a special series over the summer of 2021 called "Learning Limnology", dedicated to all things inland water. 
Helicopter flight over a large retrogressive thaw slump in the Mackenzie Delta uplands in the summer of 2017
This massive thaw slump is growing along a valley in the Richardson Mountains foothills. The lake drained in the summer of 2015
Sediment coring through the winter ice on Long Lake, near Yellowknife, NWT
As part of my volunteer work with the research committee of the Scugog Lake Stewards, I've been involved with the development of an outreach video series on a range of topics dedicated to understanding Lake Scugog. Check the videos out on this separate page.
The photo gallery below includes a few interesting pictures collected in field locations over the last 12 years!
"The thing the ecologically illiterate don’t realize about an ecosystem is that it’s a system. A system!
A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.
A system has order, a flowing from point to point. If something dams the flow, order collapses.
The untrained might miss that collapse until it was too late.
That’s why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.”
​- Frank Herbert’s Dune
Joshua Thienpont, PhD, FRCGS
Sessional Assistant Professor
York University
​jthienpo (at) yorku.ca

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