Eric Loring 80F

Eric Loring is the senior researcher and policy advisor at the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) in Ottawa, Ontario. Loring started working for the ITK in July of 1998. ITK is the national voice for the Inuit of Canada. He has conducted research on subsistence and community health and education initiatives in Inuit and Inupiat communities throughout Inuit Nunangat,  Alaska, and Greenland. Loring’s main duties are communicating scientific information back to Inuit in order for them to make good, informed choices. His main area of focus is developing climate change research programs that are run, led, and directed by Inuit. He also assists researchers and Inuit communities in working and communicating together.  Loring has spent the last forty years living and working with Inuit across the circumpolar arctic. 
 
He received his graduate degree from the geography department of McGill University and a B.A. in arctic geography from Hampshire College in Amherst Massachusetts. He also received a diploma from the Center for Northern Studies in Wolcott, Vermont.