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Jun 14, 2007 · Jean Lemire wrote that entry in January 2006, only four months into a 15 month trip, during which he and 12 other people lived on a 51-metre long sailboat and shot 600 hours of film to capture how climate change is changing the Antarctic. The Sedna IV - a three-masted sailboat with a range of 10,000 nautical miles, and fitted with high ...
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1985 BSc in biology, University of Sherbrooke 1987 Founded Les Productions Ciné-bio (a scientific consulting and script-development firm for documentary film productions)1994 Film "Marine Mammals Mission"1996 Film "Encounters with the Whales of the St. Lawrence"1998 Film "The Last Frontier"2004 Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society of Canada2007 Canadian Environment Award, citation of lifetime achievement2008 Officer of the Order of Canada, Doctor Honoris causa (University of Rimouski), Great Ambassador (Sherbrooke University)2007 "Mission Antarctique," Éditions La Presse2009 "Le Dernier Continent," Éditions La PresseThis feature documentary explores the threats of global warming to the Arctic environment that has nurtured the Inuit for 4,000 years. The Inuit have lived in harmony on this frozen landscape for generations. Today, global warming threatens their habitat. As the ice disappears, so does the Inuit culture it is intimately connected to.
A biologist by training and renowned science communicator, Jean Lemire has conducted work on climate change and biodiversity that has led to major scientific missions. In 2001, he converted a large oceanographic schooner into a scientific research platform and production studio that took him across the world’s oceans to raise awareness about ...
Jun 5, 2007 · Jean Lemire received a lifetime achievement award at the Canadian Environment Awards ceremony in Montreal on Monday night for his film, The Last Continent , to be released this fall.
The Bieler School of Environment is proud to host Jean Lemire for our 2022 Environment Public Lecture - An Odyssey of ChangeFilmmaker and author, Jean Lemire...
Environment Minister. “On behalf of Canada, I extend my deepest congratulations to Jean Lemire, a film maker, a biologist, an environmentalist.” “It is with honour and pride that I congratulate Jean Lemire for his appointment as Ambassador of The Green Wave”, said Ms. Line Beauchamp, Minister of Sustainable Development,
