Outreach & Service

Beyond the paper

Science communication, public engagement, and community-based work — much of it built with Inuit, First Nations, and Métis partners across the North.

Public engagement & media

• GENICE II — genomics for Arctic oil-spill responsePublic-facing project site, with community and news resources
• NOAA Ocean Exploration: Mapping the Uncharted Diversity of Arctic Marine MicrobesExpedition site with dispatches
• NOAA Ocean Exploration lesson plansClassroom activities from the Arctic microbes expedition
• Inuit communities partner with UM on Arctic oil-spill preparednessUniversity of Manitoba news feature
• The Art of Ice Coring2013, Utqiaġvik (Barrow) · photography by Eric Collins

Writing & photography

• Searching for ways to address disasters in the ArcticCollins RE & Stern G, 2024 · The Circle, World Wildlife Fund
• Omnis Cellula, issue 17 — article and photographs2008, Barcelona (translated to Catalan by Bernat Pujadas)
• Dispatch from the Arctic, aboard the CCGS Amundsen2007 · article by Eric Collins
• EXPLORE — UW College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences magazine (photography)2007 & 2008, Seattle

Service & community

• Representative to the UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 Working Group (since 2024).
• Representative for the Sea Ice Biota Expert Network of the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program, Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (Arctic Council) — ten years.
• Twice co-chaired the Tvärminne Symposium on Polar Microbes and Viruses, connecting early-career and senior researchers.
• Organizer, Insight Workshops on Creative Decolonization in the Sciences and on Neurodiversity in the Sciences (2024).
• Community co-development workshops with Inuit, First Nations, and Métis partners (e.g., Chesterfield Inlet), and Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat panel on natural attenuation of oil.
• Instructor in the Bioinformatics Virtual Coordination Network — 'Introduction to Metagenomics' lectures and tutorials viewed 2,000+ times.
• Mentor with the Verna J. Kirkness STEM camp and the Manitoba Indigenous Science and Engineering Fair, supporting Indigenous high-school scholars.