Mark Terry

[2] He received his PhD from York University in Toronto defending his dissertation titled The Geo-Doc: Remediating the Documentary Film as an Instrument of Social Change on January 18, 2019.

[4] In 2009, Terry produced and directed the documentary feature film The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning (2009)[5] and was invited to screen it at COP15, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Copenhagen that year.

The screenings established a relationship with Terry and the Communications Department of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that continues to this day.

[17] In 2021, the United Nations recognized this innovative form of documentary film with a Sustainable Development Goals Action Award [18] and Terry was inducted into the Order of Vaughan.

As an actor, he is perhaps best known as the Alien Pilot in Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict (1997–2002) produced by Atlantis Alliance Communications and distributed by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

[23] In 2011, Terry was honored by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television with its Gemini Humanitarian Award for his dedicated lifetime service to environmental filmmaking.

In 2010, the Canadian Chapter of The Explorers Club awarded Terry its highest honor, the Stefansson Medal, for his "unique contributions to documenting the natural world".

[8][29] In 2013, the Governor-General of Canada decorated Terry with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his "international humanitarian service" informing the environmental policymakers of the United Nations through his documentary film projects.

As a result, Terry was captured as the sole figure on the upper deck of the ship making him the only living person on Canadian money as of 2024.

Mark Terry's recent research has been published by Palgrave Macmillan in the book The Geo-Doc: Geomedia, Documentary Film, and Social Change (2020).

In 2022, his second book, an anthology of research co-edited with Michael Hewson, a professor at Central Queensland University in Australia, was published by Rowman & Littlefield entitled The Emerging Role of Geomedia in the Environmental Humanities.