Mountain Communities Conference 2005: Speakers

Jay Ingram

Renowned science broadcaster and writer Jay Ingram is co-host and producer of Daily Planet, television’s first daily science news magazine. He joined Discovery in November 1994 and was instrumental in helping shape the program format. From September 1979 to January 1992, Jay hosted CBC Radio’s science program Quirks And Quarks. During that time, he earned two ACTRA Awards, including one for Best Host.

During the ’80s, Jay was also contributing editor to Owl Magazine. In 1993, he hosted The Talk Show, a CBC Radio series about language, which also won a Science in Society Journalism Award. Following that, Jay presented items on the brain for the CBC TV’s The Health Show and contributed regular weekly science features for CBC Newsworld’s Canada Live (1993–94).

In 1984, he was awarded the Sandford Fleming Medal from the Royal Canadian Institute for his work popularizing science. He also earned the 1997 Royal Society of Canada McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science. In 2000, Jay was awarded a Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada. He holds three honorary doctorate degrees: from Carleton University, McGill University, and most recently from McMaster University.

Jay has written eight books, three of which have won Canadian Science Writers’ Awards. When he’s not hosting or producing his weekly segment Jay’s Journal, he writes a weekly science column for the Toronto Star.