SmartICE offers a suite of climate change adaptation tools that integrate Indigenous and local knowledge of ice with advanced data acquisition, remote monitoring and satellite mapping for ice travel safety. Our community-based services provide invaluable, data-driven insights into ice thickness and local ice travel conditions, in near real-time.
Impact in Action takes you behind the scenes of SmartICE’s work. From our mission, to the technology and the people who make it possible.
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Youth Employed
We hire local youth to operate our technologies in their communities, and as a learning organization we hire post-secondary interns every semester from across the country. In Nain, Nunatsiavut, youth gain employability skills while assembling our SmartBUOYs through our Employment Readiness and Technology Development Program.
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SmartQAMUTIK Runs
SmartQAMUTIKs gather ice thickness information along the most frequently travelled routes within a SmartICE serviced community. Routes are determined by Community Management Committees.
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employment hours, and growing everyday
Local community members are hired and trained to operate our technologies in over 40 communities across Inuit Nunangat, the Northwest Territories, Yukon, Nunavik and Northern BC.
Learn MoreBy augmenting Indigenous knowledge and supporting ice use, SmartICE is also helping strengthen Indigenous culture and supporting intergenerational teaching and community building.
DR. TREVOR BELL – SMARTICE FOUNDING DIRECTOR 
SmartICE technology combines innovative ice-monitoring sensors, satellite mapping, and Indigenous knowledge to provide near real-time information on ice conditions. Designed with and for northern communities, SmartICE helps support safe ice travel, climate resilience, and informed decision-making on the ice.
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We are incredibly grateful for the contributions from our many community, academic, government, and industry partners. Together, we are creating world-class climate change adaptation tools and social impacts.
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