TERRY, Dr. MARK – is a professor of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. He has travelled throughout the global Arctic on several occasions documenting the Canadian research of ArcticNet (2010), serving as the Scientist-in-Residence on Adventure Canada’s circumnavigation of Iceland (2018), making the first documented video of a crossing of the Northwest Passage, The Polar Explorer (2011), and teaching at Arctic universities in Russia. In 2015, Canadian Geographic Magazine named him one of Canada’s Top 100 Greatest Explorers of all time.
He has been decorated by Queen Elizabeth for this work with her Diamond Jubilee Medal and by The Explorers Club with its Stefansson Medal, the organization's highest honour.
Dr. Terry has given two TED Talks in Homer, Alaska, and the Ontario Science Centre on the subject of his scientific discoveries in both the Arctic and Antarctica. He has also taught a Master Class in Arctic documentary filmmaking for the American Conservation Society’s 50th anniversary celebrations of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He also taught a class in polar filmmaking to aboriginal graduate students at the Arctic College of the Peoples of the North in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Dr. Terry has worked with the United Nations since 2009 providing global scientific research to its annual climate summits known as the COP conferences. His work with GIS mapping as a data delivery system was recently nominated by the UN for its Sustainability Development Goals Action Award in the category of Visualizer.
Today he teaches a course on The Geo-Doc, a Remediated Form of Documentary Filmmaking and Environmental Activism in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. He also teaches courses in Arctic Studies, Antarctica Studies, and Documentary Filmmaking at Ryerson University.