Fulbright Program
Dr. Richard was recently informed that he has been appointed to the Fulbright Senior Specialists Roster. The Roster is a list of senior educators who are eligible to be matched with incoming program requests from overseas institutions for Fulbright Senior Specialists for period up to five years. Will hopes to match up with a northern academic institution and project in the Arctic which features climate change and cultural adaptation.


Peabody Essex Museum
Will is among artists chosen to have work on display in  year long exhibit Polar Attractions. Exhibit opens June 28 at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.   Examples from Will’s work from Nunavut and Greenland will be on exhibit.(www.pem.org)


Territory of Nunavut
For much of June, it is once again to Canada’s North. Focus is wildlife activity along the Floe Edge and changing ice conditions with implications for biota.  He will join friends and colleagues Dave Reid, owner/operator of Polar Sea Adventures, and Lee Narraway, fellow photographer. This will be my 6th trip on the ice of Baffin Bay (www.polarsea.com).


Gateways Project
Now in its 8th field season, the Smithsonian crew sets forth once again from Long Island, Newfoundland, with archaeologist Bill Fitzhugh and Skipper Peary Colbourne of the Pitsuilak. Focus continues to be a Basque site on the Lower North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Dig has both a land component and marine component. We begin to assemble on July 23 in Deer Lake, Newfoundland, at the home of Greg Wood and then proceed to Perry’s home.  We then motor up the backside of the Great Northern Peninsula, then across the Strait of Belle Isle and then onto the coast of Québec. Our return trip follows the same route with arrival at Perry’s home around August 28.  This year, the Arctic Studies Center hopes to update the “Gateways” listing on its website (www.nmh.si.edu/arctic/features/gateways).


Royal Embassy of Denmark
Conference:
GREENLAND, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND THE  MELTING ICE
Royal Embassy of Denmark. Washington, DC. May 7, 2008



Left to right: Will Richard, Photographer and Smithsonian Research Collaborator; Bill Fitzhugh, Director  Smithsonian Institution’s Arctic Studies Center; Friis Arne Petersen, Ambassador of Denmark to United States; Aqqaluk Lynge, Poet and President of Inuit Circumpolar Conference Greenland

 

 


My thanks are extended to the Royal Embassy of Denmark for hosting an exhibit of my work Greenland: Between Two Worlds and  conference Greenland, Climate Change, and the Melting Ice on May 7

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