Mark Terry
Contract Faculty
Faculty of Liberal Arts
Digital Media and Journalism
Brantford, Ontario
mterry@wlu.ca
Office:
(416) 899-5855
Languages
English
French
French
Bio/Research
I am an adjunct professor at Wilfrid Laurier University. I am an academic fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and The Explorers Club. I am also the director of the City of Vaughan’s Social and Environmental Sustainability program and the executive direc...
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Bio/Research
I am an adjunct professor at Wilfrid Laurier University. I am an academic fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and The Explorers Club. I am also the director of the City of Vaughan’s Social and Environmental Sustainability program and the executive director of the United Nations’ Youth Climate Report.
I have worked with the United Nations since 2011 on the Youth Climate Report, a database documentary film project curating video reports made by young filmmakers aged 18 to 35 of climate research, impacts, and solutions for its annual climate summits known as the COP conferences. The project won the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Action Award in 2021.
I have work throughout the Circumpolar Arctic as a documentary filmmaker. I produced the first documented film of a crossing of the Northwest Passage, The Polar Explorer (2011). I have also worked in Antarctica documenting climate research in the film The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning (2009). In 2021, the third instalment in my trilogy of polar documentary feature films, The Changing Face of Iceland, premiered at the United Nations climate summit, COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland. In 2015, Canadian Geographic Magazine named me one of the “top 100 explorers of all time”.
In the past two years, I have published three academic books The Geo-Doc: Geomedia, Documentary Film, and Social Change; The Emerging Role of Geomedia in the Environmental Humanities; Speaking Youth to Power: Influencing Climate Policy at the United Nations.
Training Indigenous youth around the world how to report on climate impacts using film.
Projects:
- The United Nations' Youth Climate Report (UNFCCC)
- The Ghana Youth Videography Programme (Wilfrid Laurier University)
- Young Lives Research Lab (York University)
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I have worked with the United Nations since 2011 on the Youth Climate Report, a database documentary film project curating video reports made by young filmmakers aged 18 to 35 of climate research, impacts, and solutions for its annual climate summits known as the COP conferences. The project won the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Action Award in 2021.
I have work throughout the Circumpolar Arctic as a documentary filmmaker. I produced the first documented film of a crossing of the Northwest Passage, The Polar Explorer (2011). I have also worked in Antarctica documenting climate research in the film The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning (2009). In 2021, the third instalment in my trilogy of polar documentary feature films, The Changing Face of Iceland, premiered at the United Nations climate summit, COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland. In 2015, Canadian Geographic Magazine named me one of the “top 100 explorers of all time”.
In the past two years, I have published three academic books The Geo-Doc: Geomedia, Documentary Film, and Social Change; The Emerging Role of Geomedia in the Environmental Humanities; Speaking Youth to Power: Influencing Climate Policy at the United Nations.
Training Indigenous youth around the world how to report on climate impacts using film.
Projects:
- The United Nations' Youth Climate Report (UNFCCC)
- The Ghana Youth Videography Programme (Wilfrid Laurier University)
- Young Lives Research Lab (York University)
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Media Relations
Aonghus Kealy
Communications and Media Relations Officer
akealy@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4855
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Communications and Media Relations Officer
akealy@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4855
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Media Relations
Aonghus Kealy
Communications and Media Relations Officer
akealy@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4855
Lori Chalmers Morrison
Director: Integrated Communications
lchalmersmorrison@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4857
Vanessa Barrasa
Director: Communications & Issues Management
vbarrasa@wlu.ca
(548) 889-3812
Brantford Campus:
Beth Gurney
Director, Strategic Communications and Community Engagement
bgurney@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4199
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Communications and Media Relations Officer
akealy@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4855
Lori Chalmers Morrison
Director: Integrated Communications
lchalmersmorrison@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4857
Vanessa Barrasa
Director: Communications & Issues Management
vbarrasa@wlu.ca
(548) 889-3812
Brantford Campus:
Beth Gurney
Director, Strategic Communications and Community Engagement
bgurney@wlu.ca
(548) 889-4199
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