Journal & stories

Tips for Travelers: Katherine Breen and Eric McNair-Landry
- 2015 May 25
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Updates
I'm asking people of the north this question: You meet someone who is traveling to the north for the first time. What advice do you have for them? This time I talked to Katherine Breen and Eric McNair-Landry

Follow the Fish
- 2015 May 5
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Updates
I'm a Field Correspondent with an Arctic mission, but before I head north I'm looking around home for connections to the higher latitudes. . . By the time I saw Lycodes paamiuti, an obscure fish dragged from the Arctic Ocean, it had been reduced to a droplet of clear liquid at the bottom of a plastic vial. I was at the finish line of a relay that had started far, far away.

Tips for Travelers: Richard van Camp
- 2015 May 1
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Updates
Four million people live above the Arctic Circle and many more make up the world's northern cultures. For those of us who are travelers, visitors or guests, going north may feel like a trip into the unknown. Perhaps you are wondering how to prepare for life way up there. I asked Richard van Camp.

Radiotonic: Arctic Sound, Lost and Found
- 2015 April 27
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Radio programming
While cruising the Northwest Passage, Jennifer sought out the sounds of her environment and found a friend who helped her connect back to the land outside the window.

Banff Centre Radio: A Mighty Force of Nature
- 2015 April 27
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Radio programming
Jennifer Kingsley revisits the bear attacks that shook Banff National Park in 1980 when The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek was on the move.

Cottage Life: Beyond the Honeybee
- 2015 April 27
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Writing Samples
Scientists, farmers, and beekeepers are paying attention. Now that the world's most infamous insecticides are turning up in lakes, you should too.

Where I’m from, where I’m going
- 2015 April 20
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Updates
I have a new assignment in 2015 as the Field Correspondent for Lindblad Expeditions in partnership with National Geographic. As I get ready to head north later this spring, I've written an introduction to me, to the project and to my hopes and dreams for the year.

Where are the Women?
- 2015 March 27
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Updates
Click through to watch Leanne Allison's three minute video from the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival about women and adventure. And about looking around the room . . .

Now You See It: An Orchestra of Words
- 2015 March 18
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Updates
Many months ago, composer Lola Perrin and sound recordist Christian Dymond got in touch with me about this project. They wanted voices to speak about climate change and asked if I would participate. The result is a mix of voices and music being debuted this month in the U.K.

New Beginnings and Fewer Grey Hairs
- 2015 February 26
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Updates
Here's a short list of things that delighted, surprised and scared me the first month of life as a Field Correspondent. Read on . . .

Toronto Star recommends Paddlenorth
- 2015 February 6
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Updates
Paddlenorth is in good company with books by Dave Olesen, Michael Winter, Andrew Peacock and Barry Blanchard on this list for the "cosy explorer" by the Toronto Star.

New Assignment for 2015!
- 2015 January 10
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Updates
I am thrilled to tell you that this week I became the first Global Field Correspondent for Lindblad Expeditions in partnership with National Geographic. Read on . . .

Canoe and Kayak Magazine
- 2015 January 8
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Updates
A review of Paddlenorth by Conor Mihell at Canoe & Kayak Magazine. "Paddlenorth is compulsively readable...Her prose is lean, raw and inspiring—the hallmarks of great travel writing."

Arctic Audio Souvenirs
- 2014 November 27
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Updates
This post contains some sounds from the the High Arctic to help you imagine the place. Some of this sound will be used in an upcoming audio essay I created for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's program, Radiotonic. Click through and listen.

A Mighty Force of Nature
- 2014 November 5
- Jennifer Kingsley
- Updates
I'm back in Banff this week for the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival, so I wanted to post a documentary I made at the centre with the guidance of radio super hero Dick Miller. It's about bear attacks and the search for a memory. Click through to listen.