Encountering the Waterlands: Stories of Environment, Animals and Architecture in the Ahiak

• Main Author: Steele, Logan
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2020
• Subjects: Canadian Arctic; architecture; architectural research; Nunavut; Inuit; Ahiak; arctic; research station; Queen Maud Gulf Migratory Bird Sanctuary (Nunavut); Canada; Northern; Biological stations; Arctic; Cambridge Bay; Queen Maud Gulf; Karrak Lake; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/15885

In spring of 2019, I travelled through Iqaluktuuttiaq (Cambridge Bay), Nunavut to the Ahiak (Queen Maud Gulf) Migratory Bird Sanctuary for a five-week volunteer position studying populations of migratory geese. In this space of migration, I question not only how we understand our changing environmen...