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Recent
Events
Tour of Ingenium
April 15, 2025
Dr. David Pantalony,
Curator, Science and Medicine, at Ingenium Canada (Canada Science and
Technology Museum), kindly agreed to take members of The Arctic Circle on a
behind-the-scenes tour of the Ingenium Centre. We visited the new storage
and research facility, and were shown artifacts related to Arctic science
and technologies.
Tour of “Life onto
Land: The Devonian”
at the Canadian
Museum of Nature, February 12, 2026
Life onto
Land: The Devonian is an exhibit
at the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) that focuses on the seminal
evolutionary transitions that occurred during the Devonian Period, 359 to
420 million years ago. During this span of time, plants and animals
colonized the land to a much greater extent, evolving more complex
anatomies that enabled them to leave aquatic habitats behind. This move
onto land laid the foundations for all modern terrestrial ecosystems. The
fossil record of Canada, particularly that of the Arctic, has yielded many
important specimens that document this crucial period in Earth’s history. Life
onto Land: The Devonian highlights the contributions of Canadian
palaeontology to understanding these early evolutionary developments and
includes display—for the first time in Canada—of the holotype specimen of Tiktaalik
roseae, an exceptionally important fossil find from Ellesmere Island that informs us about the
evolution of limbs from fins.
After
introducing us to the exhibit, the CMN’s Dr. Scott Rufolo guided Arctic
Circle members on a tour of it.
“Arctic
Security: Lessons Learned from the Nordic Countries”
Joint Session with the Canadian Nordic Society and NATO Association of
Canada, April 16, 2026
This last
meeting of The Arctic Circle’s 2025-26 season was a joint meeting with the
Canadian Nordic Society coordinated by the NATO Association of Canada. It
will deal with security considerations in the Arctic and will take the form
of a panel discussion among Nordic ambassadors, senior government officials
and representatives of academia, industry and civil society, preceded by a
social hour.
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