Mark Terry, a York University graduate, a faculty member with the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, and a research Fellow with the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, is a recipient of the 2021 Order of Vaughan – the City of Vaughan’s highest civic honour. On Dec. 21, Vaughan Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua honoured Terry for his
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In the morning, the project Youth Climate Report work was presented. - an interactive documentary film project with a digital map showing over 400 videos of climate research produced by young people from all over the world. The Youth Climate Report is an interactive documentary film project that has been going on since 2011. Where young
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York University contract faculty member Mark Terry’s new documentary film, The Changing Face of Iceland, will screen at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov. 4. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has selected The Changing Face of Iceland, the third instalment in Terry’s trilogy of polar documentaries focusing on the
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York University Contract Faculty and Research Associate Mark Terry's ongoing research project, the Youth Climate Report, is having a good year. Not only did it win an SDG Action Award in January, but it has just partnered with the world's largest environmental education organization, the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE), and its Young Reporters for the Environment program. The new partnership brings together
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Six York University faculty members have been elected to The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) as part of the Class of 2020. Recognition by the RSC is the highest honour an individual can achieve in the Arts, Social Sciences and Sciences. Five faculty members were elected to the rank of Fellow in the RSC and
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Between 2009 and 2015, FES/DIGHR postdoctoral fellow, Mark Terry, produced feature films for the United Nations (UN) reporting on the climate research in the polar regions: The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning and The Polar Explorer, both films back-to-back winners of the Audience Choice Award at the American Conservation Film Festival. The films broke new
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Rita DeMontisMore from Rita DeMontis You can call Dr. Mark Terry Canada’s original Renaissance man, and one of the country’s real-life modern-day explorers. Described as a digital-media scholar, he is one of the friendliest people you could ever meet — kind, curious, highly spirited if a somewhat humble being — who has turned the dry,
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