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Ed Struzik

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2022

I am a writer, educator and fellow at Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University and the 2022 Jarislowsky Fellow at the University of Waterloo. I am a regular contributor to Yale Environment 360, an international on-line magazine published by the Yale School of the Environment. I have travelled to many ends of the world exploring story ideas. Highlights include skiing to the North Magnetic Pole, a solo 66-day kayak trip along three Arctic rivers, the first descent of the Nanook River in the High Arctic, an illegal trip to Lake Baikal in Siberia during the last days of the Soviet Empire and a wild crazy trip to Chukotka when the autonomous republic was closed to the rest of the world My articles and photographs also appear in journals such as Policy Options and Foreign Policy Review and in magazines and newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, Natural History, Canadian Geographic, National Geographic, Maclean's Magazine, the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and the National Post. I am a proud member of the New York Times Bog Squad https://www.nytimes.com/explain/2022/05/05/headway/peatlands-wetlands-bogs-swamps-fen & I sit on the advisory council for the Jarislowky Foundation and its support for the University of Waterloo’s Global Engagement seminars. I was recently featured in the National Geographic documentary "The Last Ice" and in “Frozen Obsession” which was aired on PBS throughout the United States in 2021. I am the recipient of numerous awards for my writings. Among them are the U.S. based Grantham Prize, the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy, the Southam Fellowship, the Knight Science Fellowship at MIT, and the Sir Sanford Fleming Medal, which honours an individual who have made an outstanding contribution to the understanding of science. My latest book Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs and the Improbable World of Peat was made a “top pick” by the Wall Street Journal. Sierra Magazine included it in its list of four "must read" books. Library Journal described it as a "powerful, impressive feat of popular science." In “wholeheartedly” recommending the book, the Oryx, International Journal of Conservation described it as “love letter to a landscape so little thought of. . . “packed with expedition anecdotes, scientific facts and insights into human history. For more information about me, see the Questions and Answer article in the New York Times . https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/world/canada/extreme-fires-canada-letter.html For an independent profile, visit Yale University’s Forum on Climate Change and the Media. http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/2008/09/2008-grantham-prize-special-merit-winner-reporter-photographer-ed-struzik/
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Biosphere of Montreal

Montreal, Québec

Biosphere of Montreal

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

Free Spirit Spheres

Qualicum Beach, British Columbia

Free Spirit Spheres

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

View of Casa Loma from the garden

Toronto, Ontario

Casa Loma

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

Graves of Beechey Island in the snow

Nunavut

Graves of Beechey Island

The remote graves mark the mysterious deaths of four 19th century explorers.

Rankin Inlet  inunnguaq

Rankin Inlet, Nunavut

Rankin Inlet Inunnguaq

A modern version of the stone cairns built by the Inuit.

Nettilling Lake (background) lies on Baffin Island

Baffin Region, Nunavut

Nettilling Lake

This landlocked lake is the world's largest on an island.

Osborn Range on Ellesmere Island.

Baffin, Unorganized, Nunavut

Ellesmere Island

The third-largest island in Canada is one of the remotest places on Earth.

The alien landscape

Devon Island, Nunavut

Haughton Impact Crater

The closest thing to Mars on Earth.

The Igloo Church.

Inuvik, Northwest Territories

Our Lady of Victory Church

This house of worship in the Arctic Circle is shaped like an igloo.

The Inuvik community greenhouse was converted from an old hockey rink.

Inuvik, Northwest Territories

Inuvik Community Greenhouse

This greenhouse was once a hockey arena.

Grave of the Mad Trapper of Rat River

Northwest Territories

Grave of the Mad Trapper of Rat River

A mad mystery man who led Canadian mounties on a 150-mile wilderness chase is still buried with his secrets intact.

A teepee and Great Bear Lake, covered with snow as it is most of the year

Deline, Northwest Territories

Great Bear Lake

Locals believe the purity of this huge, untouched Arctic lake could be the salvation of human civilization.

collapsed pingo

Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories

The Tuktoyaktuk Pingos

Natural earth mounds formed in the far north.

Ragged Ass Road

Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Ragged Ass Road

This Canadian road's nickname stuck so hard the city had to keep it.

(Flickr/DrJohnBullas)

Fort Smith, Northwest Territories

Diavik Diamond Mine

Ice roads, deep holes and 3,500 pounds of diamonds.

The Smoking Hills, as seen from the sea.

Inuvik, Unorganized, Northwest Territories

The Smoking Hills

These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.

View of the Venus Mine looking to the south.

Tagish, Yukon

Venus Silver Mine

The picturesque remains of an abandoned silver mine slope down to Tagish Lake in the Yukon.

The World's Largest Weathervane, a DC-3

Whitehorse, Yukon

The World's Largest Weathervane, a DC-3

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

Vintage image of the log skyscraper

Whitehorse, Yukon

Log Skyscrapers of Whitehorse

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

Dawson City Museum

Dawson City, Yukon

Dawson City Museum

A lasting testament to the Klondike Gold Rush.

Mammoth skeleton at the centre.

Whitehorse, Yukon

Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre

Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America. 

The Dawson Paddlewheel Graveyard

Dawson City, Yukon

Paddlewheel Graveyard

A skeletal collection of former nautical mainstays.

Carcross Desert

Carcross, Yukon

Carcross Desert

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

A lane of signs in the forest

Watson Lake, Yukon

Watson Lake Sign Post Forest

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

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