Markus Dyck News Today

Fifteen people lost their lives on the job in the North in 2021, the highest number of work-related deaths the territories have seen in more than a decade. COVID-19 accounts for just four of the deaths.

The so-called fact-checkers are out again trying to insist one side of a scientific debate is wrong and another is right because they happen to agree with one side. That’s advocacy, not science. [...]

As the year draws to a close, we look back on researchers we bid farewell to, and the contributions they made to their respective fields.

He loved Nunavut: Polar bear biologist who died in helicopter crash remembered by Emma Tranter, The Canadian Press Posted Apr 30, 2021 9:20 am EDT Last Updated Apr 30, 2021 at 9:28 am EDT IQALUIT — A dedicated scientist who loved the North, Markus Dyck spoke his mind and strove to include Inuit in northern research.  That’s how friends and colleagues are remembering Dyck, a polar bear biologist with the Nunavut government, who died in a helicopter crash near Resolute Bay on Sunday. Two cre...

Emma Tranter Markus Dyck, a polar bear biologist for the Nunavut government, sits outside his tent while doing field work in Cape Sydney, Nunavut in May 2009. A dedicated scientist who loved the North, Dyck died in a helicopter crash near Resolute Bay, Nunavut, on Sunday. Two crew members also died. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Peter Van Coeverden de Groot *MANDATORY CREDIT* April 30, 2021 - 3:04 PM IQALUIT - A dedicated scientist who loved the North, Markus Dyck spoke his...

Posted: Apr 30, 2021 2:19 PM CT | Last Updated: April 30 Benton Davie, 30, is being remembered for his love of the North and his job with Great Slave Helicopters. He was one of three people who died when a AS350-B2 crashed naer Resolute Bay, Nunavut, last weekend.(Submitted by Jeff Davie)

IQALUIT – A dedicated scientist who loved the North, Markus Dyck spoke his mind and strove to include Inuit in northern research. That’s how friends and colleagues are remembering Dyck, a polar bear biologist with the Nunavut government, who died in a helicopter crash near Resolute Bay on Sunday. Two crew members also died. Harvey Lemelin, a professor at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., and a close friend of Dyck, said he’s still processing the news of his death. “I was in co...

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ABOVE: COURTESY OF LILY PEACOCK While out in the field tracking Lancaster Sound polar bear movements, preeminent polar bear researcher Markus Dyck died in a helicopter crash near Resolute Bay in Canada’s Nunavut territory on Sunday (April 25), Nunatsiaq News reports. Dyck had worked for Nunavut’s Department of the Environment studying polar bears for the last decade but had more than 25 years’ experience in the field. The two crew members piloting the helicopter also died in the accident...

Complete devastation: Renowned polar bear biologist mourned after Nunavut helicopter crash Scientists are mourning the loss of leading Canadian polar bear scientist Markus Dyck, who was one of three people on board a helicopter that crashed near Resolute Bay, Nunavut, on Sunday. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Apr 28, 2021 6:27 PM CT | Last Updated: April 29 Friends are remembering Markus Dyck, a renowned polar bear biologist who died in a helicopter crash near Resolute Bay, Nunavut, along...