{"id":604343,"date":"2024-08-15T13:47:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T17:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/?p=604343"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:06:31","slug":"northern-studies-masterclass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/podcast\/northern-studies-masterclass\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Studies &#8211; Masterclass"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"143\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/PageTitle-Season7ep11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-604348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/PageTitle-Season7ep11.png 800w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/PageTitle-Season7ep11-300x54.png 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/PageTitle-Season7ep11-768x137.png 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/PageTitle-Season7ep11-150x27.png 150w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/PageTitle-Season7ep11-696x124.png 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/shows\/7619e4c6-5de6-4851-af07-0e3d42e75f7d\/episodes\/4f69d34b-304c-47f4-932f-f866fb945e3b\/embed?theme=light-gray-blue\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; border: 0 none;\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Have you ever wondered what arctic research is really like? Today I\u2019m talking to not 1, not 2 but 3 real-life scientists who help to protect animals in the arctic. Bundle up and tune in!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"450\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/TheThree-Researchers-1024x450.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-604350\" style=\"width:537px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/TheThree-Researchers-1024x450.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/TheThree-Researchers-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/TheThree-Researchers-768x338.png 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/TheThree-Researchers-1536x675.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/TheThree-Researchers-2048x900.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/TheThree-Researchers-150x66.png 150w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/TheThree-Researchers-696x306.png 696w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/TheThree-Researchers-1068x469.png 1068w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/TheThree-Researchers-1920x844.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Emma\u2019s interviewed THREE amazing scientists: Yifeng Wang, Katie Florko, and Nick Paroshy. These three have been working hard high up in the cold to help Polar Bears, Ringed Seals, and Caribou. Your help has allowed Earth Rangers to fund their research by sending money from plush adoption kits to save these beautiful animals.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"342\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/podcast-TheThreeAnimals-1024x342.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-604360\" style=\"width:718px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/podcast-TheThreeAnimals-1024x342.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/podcast-TheThreeAnimals-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/podcast-TheThreeAnimals-768x256.png 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/podcast-TheThreeAnimals-1536x513.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/podcast-TheThreeAnimals-150x50.png 150w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/podcast-TheThreeAnimals-696x232.png 696w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/podcast-TheThreeAnimals-1068x356.png 1068w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/podcast-TheThreeAnimals.png 1888w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>But because of climate change, caribou are having a harder time finding food to eat and places to live. Polar bears who rely on sea ice for food, struggle because their habitat keeps melting as temperatures rise. Ringed seals depend on this ice for food and protection from predators, making it hard for them to protect and feed themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/C05_3496-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-603682\" style=\"width:762px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/C05_3496-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/C05_3496-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/C05_3496-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/C05_3496-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/C05_3496-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/C05_3496-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/C05_3496-1-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/C05_3496-1-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/C05_3496-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Katie Florko has been in charge of studying how to protect ringed seals. Working in Churchill, her job to fly over the arctic to find ringed seals and fit them with special tags that track how they move and act underwater. If we understand where seals go, and what they do, we can learn more about how to protect them and their habitat. Once the data collected, she traveled to Tokyo, Japan, to share her discoveries with scientists from all around the world!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earth Rangers across Canada adopted over 250 ringed seals to help her with this project. That\u2019s an incredible amount!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/433444398_398298659607679_8920321166717290555_n-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-603581\" style=\"width:762px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/433444398_398298659607679_8920321166717290555_n-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/433444398_398298659607679_8920321166717290555_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/433444398_398298659607679_8920321166717290555_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/433444398_398298659607679_8920321166717290555_n-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/433444398_398298659607679_8920321166717290555_n-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/433444398_398298659607679_8920321166717290555_n-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/433444398_398298659607679_8920321166717290555_n-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/433444398_398298659607679_8920321166717290555_n-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/433444398_398298659607679_8920321166717290555_n-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Over the summer, Yifeng Wang went to the permafrost peatlands to collect data to predict how the permafrost might respond to climate warming. As the climate warms, shrubs growing in areas that used to be shrub-free making the permafrost thaw, which means that caribou have less access to food and water. In winter she went to Labrador to work with the communities there to organize events to help everyone learn and come up with solutions to together to fight climate change and protect the peatlands together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She\u2019s been able to do this thanks to the incredible help of 150 Earth Rangers who adopted caribou plushies. You too can help Caribou research by supporting scientist Claudia Haas by adopting a caribou of your own in the Earth Rangers store!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXeY9F-2d2fRlwgV0xFPUoNs18t_RCTTHqtUO9CPLLc5fmRKpWO-HMVWYZ7vwFDqunxYwegK_MZZm0shgQ2D1PolCo3tUBknyxFFgYyaFXzN5P7JFqadVPRoX_LJ_ylitB06ubkc6Cs8kI2MObP0zrbED749Q_9GbOScq6YLKA?key=PYVSLHD5D9TDOY4ZvnBXFg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:762px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Nick Paroshy traveled up to the Arctic Circle to learn all about how polar bears move across their territory, and how we can help them when this land changes. From the safety of a helicopter, Nick will fly all over the Beaufort Sea to scout polar bears, and tag them to track their movements. To do this, they need to tranquilize the bears, since humans cannot safely approach these majestic predators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An amazing 478 Earth Rangers helped Nick in saving Polar bears! You contribution has been a huge support!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"837\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Earth-Day-Emma-min-1024x837.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-597659\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Earth-Day-Emma-min-1024x837.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Earth-Day-Emma-min-300x245.png 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Earth-Day-Emma-min-768x628.png 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Earth-Day-Emma-min-1536x1256.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Earth-Day-Emma-min-150x123.png 150w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Earth-Day-Emma-min-696x569.png 696w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Earth-Day-Emma-min-1068x873.png 1068w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Earth-Day-Emma-min-514x420.png 514w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Earth-Day-Emma-min.png 1684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Want to help out too? Go check out the current animal plush kits in the Earth Rangers shop \u2013 all of them are tied to real scientific research and will support these people in saving the animals you adopt! Don\u2019t have any money to buy a plushy? Don\u2019t worry! Wildlife adoptions aren\u2019t the only way you can protect animals! Small actions, like challenges and missions, can go a huge way to helping fight for animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">This will be our last episode for a while \u2013 Emma took the rest of the summer to prepare for her next adventure (a really special one at that!). Don\u2019t worry &#8211; we\u2019ll be back soon with a brand-new season and it will definitely be worth the wait.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"88\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/Save-A-Message.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50049\" style=\"width:176px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Did you learn anything from Emma\u2019s meetup with these super-scientists? Were you one of the cool Earth Rangers who had helped support their work? Which animal did you adopt? A comment below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered what arctic research is really like? Today I\u2019m talking to not 1, not 2 but 3 real-life scientists who help to protect animals in the arctic. Bundle up and tune in! 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