Eric Solomon is Vancouver Aquarium’s Director of Arctic Programs. He has more than 15 years experience working in the field of science and environmental education and communication with museums, science centres and public aquariums in the U.S. and Canada. He has dedicated much of his career toward improving communication of complex science and environmental issues to public audiences.
After nearly 5 years as the Aquarium’s Vice President of Conservation, Research and Education, Eric's focus is now on development and implementation of integrated approaches to advancing the Aquarium's mission and strategic priorities. One significant priority for the Vancouver Aquarium is creating greater public awareness of, and engagement in the important issues facing Canada's north.
Mr. Solomon holds a Bachelor’s in Psychology, a Master’s degree in Marine Ecology, and advanced graduate studies in Science Education.
It’s been an interesting week for Arctic news. Here are some of the week’s top stories:
The Inuit Qaujisarvingat (Inuit Knowledge Centre) at Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, together with McGill University and the N...
DFO has partially lifted a ban on exports of narwhal products from Nunavut communities.
Last year, Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) banned the export of narwhal products from 17 communit...
Pond Inlet at midnight on August 2, 2011. Photo: Eric Solomon
The Arctic represents two-thirds of Canada’s coastline and nearly 40 per cent of its land mass, but most of us know very little about it. With ...
It would be hard to find a Canadian city farther from the High Arctic than Vancouver. You might wonder, then, why the Vancouver Aquarium is interested in Arctic issues at all. The short answer is that Arctic is...
On a recent trip to Baffin Island, I had the good fortune to catch lunch with a friend. And when I say "catch lunch" I mean toss a net in the water and catch lunch.
Franco Buscemi was heading out to set his...
Let’s say for a moment that you live in Resolute Bay and run out of dog food. What do you do? Well, it’s a bit of a trick question because you probably wouldn’t have any dog food to start with. And the local Co...
Earlier in the year we posted about a predicament involving the ban of export of narwhal products from 17 communities in Nunavut. The original post is below. Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI) announced on June 2...
We’re used to the concept of home as a place; it’s where our food is, our shelter, where we start and raise our families. We sometimes think of animals that migrate as having two homes: one for summer and o...