Filmed and Produced by Gail Osherenko. Runtime 16 min 25 sec.
An expedition to the high Arctic, to Svalbard, the archipelago north of Norway, to say goodbye to polar bears. This short, entertaining film captures stunning images of polar bears and Arctic wildlife for a campaign to stop global warming.
The narration evolves in 6 segments: preparations for the expedition, encounters with polar bears, walrus, ice and glaciers, Arctic birds, and humpback whales. Appropriate for all ages.
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Gail Osherenko
Gail Osherenko filmed Arctic Expedition in August 2006 when accompanying the Ruby Expedition. She holds a law degree from UC Davis, and worked as a lawyer in all three branches of the federal government before moving to Vermont and becoming immersed in Arctic studies. She studied and taught Arctic natural resources issues at the Center for Northern Studies in Vermont and at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire before relocating to the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2003.
At UCSB she teaches courses in coastal and ocean law and policy and is a Research Scientist with the Marine Science Institute. Arctic Expedition is her first film available to the public. Her publications include three co-authored books: The Age of the Arctic (1989) and Polar Politics (1993), with Oran Young, and Siberian Survival: the Nenets and Their Story (1999) with Andrei Golovnev. Her most recent paper “New Discourses on Ocean Rights: Property Rights, the Public Trust, and Ocean Management,” is forthcoming in the Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation (spring 2007).
