November: Changing Canadian lcescapes

Date: Nov 2, 2025 at 14:30
Meeting Location: Zoom Meeting

It is difficult to avoid ice in Canada! In addition to ice on the roads and in hockey rinks, Canada is home to an estimated 20,000 glaciers, and our Arctic sea ice grows to an extent larger than the Canadian landmass each year. However, the response of glaciers and sea ice to increasingly warmer temperatures now threatens regional water supplies, local ecosystems, transportation, food security, and more. Explore why 2025 has been designated by the UN as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation, and what actions and adaptation measures are being taken by communities across Canada to increase their resilience in this time of change.

Dr. Lynn Moorman is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada, where she teaches spatial data science and physical geography.  She explores Arctic regions as a researcher and guide, with a focus on glaciers and glacial geomorphology. She also works with Inuit in Canadian Arctic communities using near-real-time satellite imagery to map sea ice conditions and keep community sea ice travel safe, through the award-winning organization, SmartICE. Lynn is a Canadian Geographic Travel Ambassador, a Fellow and former Governor of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and Canadian representative for the International Commission on Geographic Education.

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Toronto Field Naturalists wishes to acknowledge this Land through which we walk. For thousands of years, the Land has been shared by the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinaabe. Toronto is situated on the Land within the Toronto Purchase, Treaty 13, the traditional and treaty Lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is also part of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum, a covenant agreement between Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Wendat peoples and allied nations to peaceably share the land and all its resources. Today, the Land is home to peoples of numerous nations. We are all grateful to have the opportunity to continue to care for and share the beauty of this Land.