Both of his theses focused on the implications of climate change and natural resource policy on food security for Indigenous peoples in Alaska.

From 2013-2018, he was an assistant professor at the University of Saskatchewan’s School of Environment and Sustainability, where among other responsibilities he served as the 2017 President of the Arctic Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

[10] As a part of this research, he co-produced and co-directed of the short documentary Wetland / Wasteland, which won an honorable mention at the 2020 Let’s Talk About Water film festival.

[11] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Loring pivoted his research to explore how COVID-19 affected fisheries and farmers in the United States, Canada and Africa.

The book explores regenerative, sustainable and socially just food systems through various case studies, including cattle ranching in The Burren, Ireland, and Indigenous clam gardening in British Columbia.