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Beluga whale photo from Unsplash.

Beluga photo from Unsplash.

CBC: Nunavut PhD student wins award for research that blends Inuit knowledge and western science

July 5, 2021 — 

As CBC News reports:

A PhD student has received a prestigious award for her work studying belugas in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. 

Enooyaq Sudlovenick, who was raised on Baffin Island, Nunavut, is one of the 2021 recipients of the Weston Family Award in Northern Research.

Sudlovenick, who studies at the University of Manitoba, looks in-depth at the health of beluga populations through the lenses of both Inuit knowledge, or Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, and western science.

Read the full CBC story.

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