Writing & Speaking

Selected Conferences, Workshops & Talks

2024 - Symposium of the International Journal of Action Research, Enhancing the Reach of Action Research, Panel participation: Connecting and communicating beyond our projects and showcasing the unique contribution of action research to societal transformation with Luz Dinora Vera Acevedo, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Aina Landsverk Hagen, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. Facilitated by Patricia Canto. (Oct 24-25, hybrid).

2024 - Arctic Congress. Facilitated a panel and conversation cafe on “Circumpolar Education Program on Environmental Change and Resilience” co-organized with Jeff Birchall (UofA) and conference talk in the session “Strategies for centering Indigenous voices for Arctic community-led research and co-production of knowledge for early career researchers”, (May 29-June 4, Bodø, Norway.

2022 - UArctic Summer School on Plastic in the Marine Arctic – from sources to solutions at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (Participant, July 29-Aug.6, Nuuk, Greenland)

2022 - ‘Using Arts in support of Participatory and Inclusive Learning Environments’, Inuit Studies Conference, co-presented with Eriel Lugt, Chase Nogasak, Tony Eetak, Jamie Bell, Jaro Malanowski, Olaf Kuhlke, Tara Baswani, Remi Lemieux, Workshop Session (June 21, Winnipeg, MB)

2022- UNESCO World Higher Education Conference, side event coordinator with the UNESCO Chair in Community-based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education (May 14-20, Barcelona, Spain)

2022 - ‘Happening to Us’ Film Screening with Q & A with youth filmmaker Keegan Cockney, BC Library Association Conference (April 22, virtually)

2022 - Engaging Northern Communities using Arts-based Methods - Talk and Film Screening, UArctic Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience. Supported by the Geography and Planning Students’ Society and the School of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Alberta. (Mar. 18 -virtually)

2022- Canadian International Council - Victoria - CIC Victoria: Canada Speaks “Climate Change: The Arctic Is The Bellwether…Temperatures, Tides And Turbulence” Panel with Lisa Koperqualuk, Vice President of international affairs with the Inuit Circumpolar Council and Cdr Corey Gleason, former Captain of the HMCS Harry DeWolf. Recording here. (Panelist, Jan. 31)

2021- Graduate Seminar on Climate Change Impacts and Responses in the Arctic (program), UArctic Thematic Network on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience. Research Project Presentation. (June 28-virtually)

2021 – Research Impact Canada Meeting Research Project Presentation (Apr. 28- virtually)

2020 – Film Screening of “Happening to Us” at the NWT Health, Climate Change and Youth Online Conference Hotıì ts'eeda Ełèts’ehdèe-Katimaqatigiit-Nihkhah Łatr’iljil, Co-presenting with Carmen Kuptana

2020 – Reviewer for the Polar Resource Book, International Arctic Science Committee (May).

2020 – Youth Voices Matter: Engaging Inuvialuit Youth on Global Changes using Participatory Video, POLAR Lunch & Learn Series (May 14 - virtually)

2020 – Food sovereignty in the era of climate crisis, IdeaFest - panel participation (March 3)

2019 – UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25), Madrid, Spain (Dec. 3-8). Panel Participation at the Youth Climate Report Press Conference with four youth from Tuktoyaktuk.

2018 –  Carleton University Institute on the Ethics of Research with Indigenous Peoples, Ottawa, ON (Summer Six-day course)

2018 –  Media that Matters Workshop, Hollyhock, Cortes Island, BC (Speaker and attendee)

2018 – Panelist on Women in STEM, Let's Talk Science, Victoria, BC 

2018 – Panelist on Connecting with Science and Nature, Elements Film Festival, Science World, Vancouver, BC 

2018 – Community-Based Research workshop, presented on the use of innovative tools to engage communities, IdeaFest, Victoria, BC  (Speaker)

2018 – Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers Conference, Edmonton, AB

2017 –  Connecting Arctic Communities: Live Streaming as a Tool to Connect, Share, and Educate. Arctic Change Conference, ArcticNet, Quebec City, QC (Speaker)

2017 – Environmental Youth Forum, California Film Institute, San Rafael, CA, USA  (Speaker and Panelist at the Water Panel)

2016 –  Going Beneath the Waves with Live Dives. Explorers Club Symposium. Salt Spring Island, BC and Explorers Club Event in Toronto, ON

2016 –  Live Underwater Broadcasting: an Innovative Solution to Engage Students in Marine Conservation Topics: A Case Study, International Marine Conservation Congress, St.John's, NL

2015   –  Beneath the Waves with Fish Eye Project, Giant Screen Cinema Association, San Francisco, CA 

2015    – ShoreZone in the Classrooms: Outreach and Education Applications, American Fisheries Society Conference, Portland, OR 

2015    – CaNOE conference: Ocean Literacy Conference, Vancouver, BC 

2014    – 2020 Vision of Canada’s Oceans Dialogue; How can Canada do better on sustainable oceans? Vancouver, BC 

2013    – Yukon/BC Annual Explorers Club Symposium, Salt Spring Island

2013    – A Sense of Place on a Changing Coast: an Arctic Perspective, Marine     Night, Victoria Natural History Society

2012   – Yukon North Slope Conference, Whitehorse, YT 

2012   – Subsistence Mapping Conference, Kotzebue, AK 

2011    – World Marine Biodiversity Conference, Aberdeen, UK

2010   – Habitat Mapping Conference (GeoHab), Wellington, NZ 

2009  – World Student Environment Summit, Victoria, BC

Publications

Haarr, M. L., Bach, L., Chambers, C. P., Falk-Andersson, J., Juul-Pedersen, T., Metcalfe, R. D., Sinisalo, A., Strand, J., Svendsen, H., Baak, J. E., Björnsdóttir, H. H., Brenner, E. M. K., Christiansen, S., Delattre, C., Gauthier, M., Georgiou, R. H., Günther, L., Hägg, F., Markussen, U., . . . Wittwer, L. (2023). Beach litter sources around Nuuk, Greenland: An analysis by UArctic summer school graduate course students. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 191, 114914. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.114914 Access article here.

Gauthier M., 2021. Community-Based Research and Participatory Approaches in Support of SDG14. In: Leal Filho W., Azul A.M., Brandli L., Lange Salvia A., Wall T. (eds) Life Below Water. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. Link to website: here. Access article here.

Amauchi, J., Gauthier, M., Ghezeljeh, A., Giatti, L.L., Keats, K., Sholanke, D., Zachari, D. & Gutberlet, J., 2021. The Power of community-based participatory research: Ethical and effective ways of researching. Community Development. DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2021.1936102 Access pdf here.

Gauthier, M. Langscape Magazine. Happening to Us: Amplifying Youth Voices from the Arctic. 07/30/2020

De Leo, F., Gauthier, M., Nephin, J., Mihaly, S., and Juniper, S.K., 2017. Bottom trawling and oxygen minimum zone influences on continental slope benthic community structure off Vancouver Island (NE Pacific). Deep-Sea Research Part II. 137: 404-419. Access article here.

Gauthier, M. 2017. Trap camera videos from SGaan Kinghlas – Bowie Seamount: Overview of data obtained during sablefish bottom longline trap fishing in 2016. Can. Dat. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 1279: v + 18 p. Link: http://waves-vagues.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Library/40646658.pdf

Gale, K.S.P., Curtis, J.M.R., Morgan, K.H., Stanley, C., Szaniszlo, W., Burke, L.A., Davidson, L.N.K., Doherty, B., Gatien, G., Gauthier, M., Gauthier, S., Haggarty, D.R., Ianson, D., Neill, A., Pegg, J., Wallace, K., and Zand, J.D.M. 2017. Survey Methods, Data Collections, and Species Observations from the 2015 Survey to SGaan Kinghlas-Bowie Marine Protected Area. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 3206: vii + 94 p. Link: http://waves-vagues.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Library/40652129.pdf

Gauthier, M. and Acemah, M. “Sense of Place: Using New Media to Share Traditional Stories.” Terralingua Langscape. Vol. 2, Issue 13. Winter 2013: pp.58-61. 

Gauthier, M. et al. “A window on the effect of deep-sea bottom trawling on the Pacific coast” HERMIONE Newsletter. Issue 10, Spring 2012.http://www.euhermione.net/component/content/article/54

Gauthier, M. “Wally the Robot”, The Martlet Newspaper. September 22, 2011. Vol. 64, Issue 7. http://martlet.ca/martlet/article/neptune-wally/

Gauthier, M. “Into the Deep”, Outpost Magazine. November 2010: 18-21.

Boisjoli, G., Gauthier, M., Larouche, F., Ponceblanc, F., and Roy J-S. “Voyager vert: La nouvelle Révolution Cubaine”, Le Point Biologique. April 2007: 26-34. www.aroy.net/pointbiologique/pointbiologique-v1.pdf

Gauthier M. "NEPTUNE: Dans les Profondeurs du Pacifique", Muv:  25-26. 2007. See PDF link.

Speaking Topics: Inspiring Women in Science, Innovative Education Tools, Journey to Antarctica, Arctic Spell: the Northwest Passage on an Icebreaker, Mapping the North from the Sky, Women/Mom Entrepreneur. 

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