The Arctic Circle is non-profit, volunteer organization made up of people who enjoy learning, talking and sharing information about the North. The annual cost of membership is….
New members may join and
memberships may be renewed in person at the
meetings, on-line
here, or by mailing this
form. Note that on-line membership
dues are slightly higher to cover costs. The Executive Kathleen
Tipton (President) graduated from
Ryerson’s School of Interior Design in Toronto in
1985. Her thesis centred on a proposal for the
design and construction of a Scientific Resource
Centre situated near Radstock Bay on Devon Island,
Nunavut. The Government of Canada produced a White
Paper on the subject of a resource centre for
Maxwell Bay one month following the publication of
her thesis. She moved to Finland in 1986 to work
with various architectural firms, and in 1995
co-founded Arkos Arkkitehdit, a multidisciplinary
design cooperative. During this period she also
studied architecture at Helsinki University of
Technology as well as Finnish, philology, film and
Russian architectural history at the University of
Helsinki. After returning to Canada, she embarked
on aircrew training in 2005 with the Royal
Canadian Air Force at the Canadian Forces Schools
of Aerospace Control Operations (Cornwall) and Air
Navigation (Winnipeg), finishing a course of study
in Borden at the CF School of Administration and
Logistics as an Air Logistics Officer in
Transportation and Air Movements in 2010. She
returned north of the 60th parallel in
2015, serving as Liaison Officer for CJOC’s Joint
Task Force North, Detachment Yukon. In 2018, she
received the Commissioner’s Commendation Award
from the Honourable Doug Phillips, Commissioner of
Yukon, for her excellence while serving as the
Commissioner’s military aide-de-camp. Currently in
Ottawa with Canadian Armed Forces Transition Group
J4 in charge of infrastructure for CAF TG
Transition Units and Transition Centres across
Canada. John Gilbert (Vice-President) received his early education at King Alfred School under the headmaster Frederick Spencer Chapman, a member of the 1930-31 British Arctic Air-Route Expedition and a subsequent Greenland Expedition in 1932–33. Immigrating to Canada in 1953, John developed an interest in radio communications and from 1956 to 1958 served as a Radio Operator at Resolute Bay and Eureka, Nunavut. He travelled to Eureka on the icebreaker D’Iberville. He then followed a career in telecommunications and information technology. He was the Executive Secretary of the 1984 Worldwide Commission on Telecommunications under the auspices of the International Telecommunication Union, a UN specialized agency. He has been associated for many years with UNESCO. John has maintained a life-long interest in the High Arctic and has compiled a collection of photographs, documents and stories on the Joint Arctic Weather Stations: 1947-72. He curated the 2014 exhibit "The Polar Adventures of Andrew Taylor" assisted by a Northern Studies Award and Research Grant Program from the University of Manitoba. Peter Morse (Past-President) is a Natural Resources Canada research scientist at the Geological Survey of Canada specializing in permafrost and periglacial geomorphology, and he is the current Secretary of the Canadian Permafrost Association (https://canadianpermafrostassociation.ca/). His relationship with Arctic began in 2004 with graduate research in the western Canadian Arctic where he investigated near-surface permafrost conditions at the Kendall Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary. After receiving his PhD in Geography from Carleton University he was awarded a postdoctoral position as an NSERC Visiting Research Fellow in a Government Lab, which he held at the Survey within the Climate Change Geoscience Program. His involvement with the Circle began shortly after the start of his graduate research. He has been on the Committee and has been the Circle's webmaster since 2009. Thomas Frisch (Secretary) is a geologist (BSc Hons, Queen’s University, 1962, PhD, University of California Santa Barbara, 1967) who spent his entire professional career with the Geological Survey of Canada. His first experience of the Arctic was as a student assistant on a GSC field party in central Ellesmere Island in 1962. Tom subsequently spent some 23 summers in the North, working in the Precambrian Shield of the Eastern Arctic, northern mainland and Greenland. Although he retired in 1996, Tom continued his association with the GSC on a volunteer basis until 2011. Besides geology, Tom’s interests extend to book collecting (geology and Arctica) and Arctic history. David Terroux (Treasurer) (Biography to follow) The Committee Guy
R. Brassard is a
retired
Science
Advisor
(Canadian
Forest
Service,
Natural
Resources
Canada,
1989-2005) and
Biology
Professor at
Memorial
University of
Newfoundland
(1970-89). His
first arctic
work was in
1964
(Operation
Tanquary,
northern
Ellesmere
Island) as a
botany
student. This
was followed
by two more
summers (1967;
1969) of
botanical
field work,
also on
northern
Ellesmere.
His special
interest was
in arctic
mosses, and
his Ph.D. in
1970 was on
the mosses of
northern
Ellesmere
Island, with
an overview
for the Queen
Elizabeth
Islands. While
at Memorial
University,
his botanical
research (and
that of his
graduate
students)
continued on
arctic mosses,
mainly
analysing
large scale
distribution
patterns. This
involved more
field work in
several arctic
areas:
Ellesmere and
Baffin Is.,
Greenland, and
arctic
Alaska.
In addition,
he and his
students
carried out
considerable
bryological
(moss-related)
research in
Labrador and
on the island
of
Newfoundland.
Member of the
Arctic Circle
since the
mid-1960s, and
Fellow of the
Arctic
Institute of
North America,
he lives in
Ottawa. His
personal
interests
include
gardening,
square
dancing, and
high arctic
exploration
(esp.
collecting old
expedition
reports). Luke
Copland
is a Professor
and holder of
the University
Research Chair
in Glaciology
at the
University of
Ottawa, where
he directs the
Laboratory for
Cryospheric
Research (https://cryospheric.org). His
research
focuses on the
dynamics and
recent changes
of glaciers
and ice
shelves,
primarily in
northern
Canada. This
research
combines
remote sensing
with field
measurements,
and is
primarily
aimed at
understanding
the controls
on ice motion
and glacier
mass balance,
and how these
may change
under a
changing
climate. Lynn Gillespie is a research
scientist at the Canadian Museum of
Nature specializing in Arctic flora
and the systematics and evolution of
flowering plants. She studied
biology at Carleton University and
obtained her PhD in Botany from the
University of California, Davis. She
has been involved in Arctic research
since 1994 and has spent many
summers conducting fieldwork across
the Canadian Arctic, from Baffin to
the McKenzie Delta, and Ellesmere to
southernmost Nunavut. Her current
Arctic research is focused on
understanding the distribution and
evolution of flowering plants in the
Arctic ecozone of Canada. She served
on the Conservation of Arctic Flora
and Fauna (CAFF) Circumpolar Flora
Group, and contributed to the Arctic
Biodiversity Assessment report. Kathy
M. Haycock,
originally
from Ottawa,
grew up in a
world filled
with stories
and landscape
paintings of
the Arctic.
Her Dad was
Maurice
Haycock,
northern
Geologist and
Arctic
painter. Kathy
completed
undergraduate
work in
Psychology at
Carleton
University.
She continued
to work there
as a research
assistant and
in England at
Cambridge
University
before joining
the “back to
the land”
movement in
the Upper
Ottawa Valley
near Eganville
in 1973. She
began weaving
tapestries of
the landscape,
and with her
husband
started a
handcrafted
log home
building
company. Early
trips north
with her Dad
on his
painting trips
further
instilled her
early love for
the profound
beauty,
fragility and
powerful
influence of
the Arctic. In
1998 Kathy
began oil
painting. She
has returned
North numerous
times, though
not as often
as her Dad, on
extensive
painting trips
in Greenland,
Nunavut, the
Northwest
Territories,
the Yukon and
Alaska. Kathy
is a
professional
artist, an
elected member
of the Society
of Canadian
Artists,
Artists for
Conservation,
the Ontario
Society of
Artists, the
Federation of
Canadian
Artists, and a
Fellow of the
Royal Canadian
Geographic
Society. Her
art is
collected
worldwide. She
continues to
travel to the
North and to
the American
Southwest to
paint. Caroline
Forcier
Holloway, is
an Arctic
researcher and
a retired
Senior
Audiovisual
Archivist from
Library and
Archives
Canada (LAC),
who holds an
undergraduate
degree in
history from
the University
of Ottawa. Her
interest in
the Arctic
evolved as a
Reference
Archivist and
expanded when
she became the
archivist for
Indigenous and
Northern
Content, and
Oral History.
During her
career,
Caroline
conducted
professional
interviews for
the Workers’
History
Museum, LAC,
and academic
journals. In
particular,
she
co-produced
the video Lure
of the Lens: A
father and
son’s
experience of
the North,
mixing an
interview she
conducted with
silent home
movies of an
RCMP
constable’s
activities in
the Yukon in
the 1930s.
Caroline also
interviewed
filmmaker
Roger Racine,
a young
National Film
Board recruit,
about his
extreme cold
weather
filming during
the Canadian
military’s
Exercise
Musk-Ox in
1946. In 2009,
at a Nunavut
10th
anniversary
celebration in
Ottawa,
Caroline first
publicly
screened Inuit
Scenes at
Avvajja,
Igloolik,
a rediscovered
archival film
made in 1937
by
archaeologist
Graham Rowley,
documenting
Inuit and
places
encountered
while
excavating
with the
British-Canadian
Arctic
Expedition.
The
rediscovery
inspired
Caroline to
survey LAC’s
film
collection for
footage of
northern
content
revealing
sizable
amounts of
footage on
Arctic
expeditions,
contributing
towards the
Arctic’s
narratives of
the
relationship
between Inuit
and explorers,
and eventually
aligning with
the Truth and
Reconciliation
Commission’s
Calls to
Action, LAC’s
digitization
initiative,
and the
decolonization
of archival
descriptions.
Currently, as
an archivist
with the
Nunavut
Archives
Program,
Government of
Nunavut,
Caroline is
processing the
Thomas H.
Manning papers
and collection
of rare
literature on
Arctic
exploration,
which the
Arctic
explorer and
zoologist
willed to the
people of
Nunavut. She
is also
working on a
biography of
Thomas H.
Manning and a
bibliography
of his
scientific
publications
and
collections. J.
Edward Johnson
(Biography to
follow) Janice
Lang
(Biography to
follow) Peter
MacKinnon
(Biography to
follow) R.I.
Guy Morrison
(Biography to
follow) Doreen Riedel (Biography to follow) Anne
Adams Simpson was
born and
raised in
British
Columbia, but
she moved to
Ottawa to
study and
first became a
member of the
Arctic Circle
in 2018 after
attending
several
meetings with
her
grandfather,
Peter Adams,
who was a
glaciologist
and
politician. In
2017, she had
the
opportunity to
live in
Yellowknife as
part of her
Master’s
degree in
International
Affairs,
experiencing
the North for
the first
time.
Beginning her
career in
negotiations
with
Crown-Indigenous
Relations
Canada, Anne
is now a
Senior Advisor
for Northern
Affairs
Canada.
Personally and
professionally,
Anne has a
passion for
the North. John M. R.
Stone is
an Adjunct
Professor in
the Department
of Geography
and
Environmental
Studies at
Carleton
University. He
received a
Ph.D. in
Chemical
Spectroscopy
(1969) and an
Honours B.Sc.
in Chemistry
(1966) from
the University
of Reading UK.
He held
Post-Doctoral
Fellowships,
with the
National
Research
Council of
Canada and the
Czechoslovak
Academy of
Sciences. He
is a member of
the Canadian
Meteorological
and
Oceanographic
Society
Scientific
Committee, an
Associate
Editor of
Environmental
Reviews and a
Board member
of the Pembina
Institute. His
experiences
since retiring
from the
Canadian
Public Service
in 2005
include:
Visiting
Fellow,
International
Development
Research
Council. Prior
to retiring he
served as
Executive
Director
(Climate
Change) for
the
Meteorological
Service of
Canada,
Environment
Canada. His
current and
past
professional
responsibilities
include:
Member of the
Bureau of the
Intergovernmental
Panel on
Climate Change
(IPCC),
specifically
as Vice-chair
of Working
Group I for
Third
Assessment
Report and
Vice-chair of
Working Group
II for Fourth
Assessment
Report. He was
most recently
a Lead Author
for the Fifth
Assessment
Report. |
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