The Arctic Eider Society won $750,000 in the Google.org Impact Challenge for their work with the Canadian Inuit and Cree communities as part of their environmental citizen scientist program.

The data collected helps to better understand large-scale cumulative impacts of environmental change on the region’s ecosystem.

The SIKU platform being used incorporates data from SonTek’s CastAway-CTD
and Google technology to provide access to live data for monitoring of communities around the Hudson Bay, Canada.