Aujaqsuittuq: Eternal Snow

The Arctic ICCE project documents the effects of climate change on the hunters of northwest Greenland. The goal is to  visit communities in Greenland's vast Thule region and record stories, interviews and oral histories of the few remaining full-time hunters and their wives in that region. Transcripts and commentaries of those interviews are available on this website under Ethnographies.

The name of this project, ICCE, stands for Inuit Climate Change Ethnographies. The website URL, "Aujaqsuittuq", which means eternal snow in the Canadian Inuktituk dialect, was the original name of the project. Unfortunately, no one could spell, pronounce or remember it (so much for my future in marketing). What's more, while the word is used by the Inuit in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, it is not used in Greenland.  So in 2005 I changed the name to its current acronym.