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Alex Stewart Co-investigator (WP7) Co-investigator Alex Stewart has experience with ethnographic methods (e.g., Stewart,1998, The Ethnographer’s Method, Sage Publications) and ethnographic research (e.g., Stewart, 1989, Team Entrepreneurship, Sage Publications, 1989). He also has extensive experience applying social anthropological theory and ethnographic findings (e.g., Stewart, 2015, Academy of Management Perspectives and Stewart, 1990, Organization Science). With PI Natalie Slawinski, he participated in the “Telling a New Rural Story: Mobilizing Assets for Vibrant Communities” conference in Norris Point, NL, and presented a photographic interpretation of the PLACE model. ( https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/pov-mallary-mcgrath-telling-new-storyvibrant- communities-1.5155413 shows both Slawinski and Stewart in the third photo.) Within the last 12 months, he has made 18 photo-ethnographic visits to rural Newfoundland. He has worked recurrently with nine community organizations on the Bonavista Peninsula. This fieldwork is in the territory of the Discovery Aspiring Geopark (DAG), and he has provided 156 photographs of sites requested by the DAG effort. In conjunction with community leaders, artists, and crafts people, he is working to develop interactive ways for community members to express their visions of the environment (physical, social, cultural, and historical) and the ways people create value based on ties to this environment.

INCLUSION Helping to ensure infrastructure designs support inclusion, social justice, and equity Ocean and coastal environmental degradation and change, unsafe and unsustainable resource development, and coastal community restructuring can exacerbate exclusion from ecosystem benefits, social injustice, and inequities. These problems often result in disproportionate impacts on disadvantaged groups such as people from lower socioeconomic standards, women, youth, immigrants, injured workers, people with disabilities, and resource-dependent coastal communities, with few economic development alternatives. By directly engaging multiple, critical understandings of inclusion and its relationship to social justice and equity, Inclusion Work Packages are developing new knowledge that can improve conditions for equitably engaging and including diverse groups (different genders, old and young, immigrants) to support their capacity and resilience in contexts of ocean, coastal, and social-ecological change. BUILDING RESILIENT COASTAL COMMUNITIES THROUGH SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE (WP7) RETURN TO WORK AFTER WORK INJURY OR ILLNESS: CHALLENGES FOR MARINE AND COASTAL WORKERS IN ATLANTIC CANADA (WP8) INCLUSION, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EQUITY IN URBAN AND RURAL COASTAL COMMUNITIES (WP9)

ACTING ON WEATHER & CLIMATE: NETWORKS AND INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION DECISION MAKING (WP2) FOCI’s Work Package on ‘Networks and Infrastructure for Adaptation and Mitigation Decision Making’ focuses on infrastructures designed to facilitate planning around weather-driven hazards and climate change. Central to these activities is recognition that fostering coastal community sustainability in the context of a changing climate requires i) relevant, reliable guidance on anticipated climate impacts; ii) resources to identify and communicate weather hazards as they happen, and iii) availability of viable, cost-effective adaptation options. Designing infrastructures to meet these is best done through co-production of knowledge by practitioners (e.g. forecasters, climate scientists, engineers) and stakeholders, ensuring that resulting guidance is relevant and inclusive of diverse perspectives. MEET THE TEAM Joel Finnis Lead Barbara Neis Co-Investigator Carissa Brown Co-Investigator Mark Stoddart Co-Investigator Joseph Daraio Co-Investigator Martin V. Day Co-Investigator HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL (HQP) Joshua Brown Master's Student Current Emily Reid-Musson Postdoctoral Fellow 2021 Pierrette Janes-Bourque Master's Student Current Sydney Snow Research Assistant/CCNL Intern 2022-23 Erin Pearson Master's Student Alumni Ian Petty Research Assistant 2024 OUR PARTNERS

Barbara Doran Collaborator (IWP4) Barbara Doran is a filmmaker, an activist and a businesswoman. She founded Morag Loves Company in 1983. Since then, she has written, directed, and produced more than 35 internationally acclaimed documentaries and dramas. She has made television biographies on Lucy Maude Montgomery, Gordon Pinsent, Joey Smallwood, and Cathy Jones. In 2012, she was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Ms. Doran currently sits on the board of directors of Perchance Theatre. She is a Mentor with The Trudeau Foundation and a lifetime member of the Writers Guild and the Directors Guild of Canada. She produced Newfoundland’s first major international television series, Random Passage, in Trinity Bay in 1999, and since that time, the area of 3,000 souls has benefitted from more than 53 million dollars of film and television production. Ms. Doran’s feature film, The Grand Seduction also filmed in Trinity Bight, starring Brendan Gleeson, Gordon Pinsent and Taylor Kitsch, became an international box office hit that was featured on screens around the world. Ms. Doran’s primary role in the FOCI’s IWP4 will be as videographer in IWP4.

Memorial University Sandra Hewitt-Parsons Research Assistant (IWP4) More to come.

Grenfell Campus, Memorial University Diana Burbano Postdoctoral Fellow (WP5) Diana Burbano obtained a Master’s in Ecology from Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, and a doctoral degree from the Department of Geography at McGill University, Canada. She was a post-doctoral fellow with the Ocean Frontier Institute at Dalhousie University’s Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at Memorial University. Her work focuses on understanding the human dimensions of biodiversity conservation. Diana has engaged in interdisciplinary projects across various regions of Ecuador. For the past 16 years, Diana has worked on issues related to small-scale fisheries and the interaction between tourism, biodiversity conservation, and resource-based livelihoods (fisheries and farming) in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. In the last three years, she has concentrated on the human dimensions of marine conservation in Atlantic Canada and Brittany, France. Using case study research and a mixed-methods approach, Diana investigates stakeholders’ attitudes and perceptions of marine conservation, evidence-based decision-making, public participation in consultation processes, collaborative governance, management and conservation of marine protected areas (MPAs), environmental justice, and social equity.

Jerry McIntosh Collaborator (IWP4) Jerry McIntosh is founder and president of McIntosh Media, a Canadian film and television production and consulting company. McIntosh is a Producer, Director, Videographer and Editor of independent media productions for a variety of clients. Previously, McIntosh was Director of Independent Documentaries at CBC Television and launched the award-winning independent documentary series Rough Cuts, supervised the launch of The Lens, expanded the series The Passionate Eye, and contributed to the successful launch of the Canadian Documentary Channel.

Desai Shan Co-investigator (WP1, WP8) Desau Shan is a Assistant Professor, Division of Population Health and Applied Health Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Desai is a dedicated researcher in occupational health and safety (OHS), she has published more than 40 research articles, book chapters and research reports on Canadian and international seafarers’ rights to occupational health and safety. She has been awarded/co-awarded 17 research grants from international and Canadian funding agencies. She contributes her knowledge to the Canadian National Seafarer’s Welfare Board as a maritime health and law expert. Between 2022 and 2023, she was appointed as the research expert by Transport Canada to draft a federal government report, Fatigue in the Maritime Sector 2023 , which contains the first baseline study of workplace fatigue levels among Canadian seafarers. In 2022, she was appointed as an international labour law expert by the International Labour Organization to draft a flagship report: Occupational Safety and Health and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Legal Analysis of China.

Mark Stoddart Lead (IWP3), Co-investigator (WP2, WP6, WP7) Professor Stoddart has worked in the Department of Sociology at Memorial University since 2010. His major areas of research, graduate supervision, and teaching expertise are environmental sociology, political sociology and social movements, and communications and culture. Within the FOCI team, he is Co-lead of IWP3, and Co-Investigator on WP2, WP6, and WP7. He brings a range of expertise relevant to these work packages. First, he was a Co-Investigator on the SSHRC-supported project, Perceiving Climate Variability: A Community-based Study to Identify Frameworks for Understanding and Interpretation. This project, led by Joel Finnis, is directly related to WP2. Second, he is co-lead of the SSHRC-supported Canadian team of COMPON (COMParing climate change POlicy Networks). This is a large international comparative project that examines climate change media discourse and policy networks. This project includes an established working relationship with collaborator Tuomas Ylä-Antilla (Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, University of Helsinki) and is directly related to WP6. Third, he is a Co-Investigator on the SSHRC-supported project Perceptions of Change in Atlantic Canadian Cities. This project, led by Howard Ramos, included a focus on public perceptions of ecological change and is also directly related to WP6. Fourth, he is a Research Collaborator on the SSHRC-supported project, Building Resilient Rural Communities through Social Entrepreneurship: Lessons from the Shorefast Foundation on Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador. This project, led by Natalie Slawinski, is directly related to WP7. Fifth, Professor Stoddart has been a member of Sustainable Canada Dialogues since 2014, including serving roles as a core member of the Outreach Working Group and Scientific Committee. This experience directly relates to IWP3. Professor Stoddart’s research has appeared in a range of high-impact international and national interdisciplinary and sociological journals, including: Global Environmental Change, Energy Research & Social Science, Organization & Environment, Journal of Environmental Science & Policy, Environmental Politics, and Environmental Communication. He is co-author of the recent book Industrial Development and Eco-Tourisms: Can Oil Extraction and Nature Conservation Co-Exist.

IMPROVING SAFETY AND REDUCING THE ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT OF MARINE VEHICLES BY DESIGN AND OPERATION (WP1) SAFETY Designing safer maritime and coastal infrastructures for Atlantic Canada Safety Work Packages are addressing critical needs for proactively designing maritime and coastal infrastructure for Atlantic Canadian industries, coastal communities, and workers that is both safer and less environmentally damaging. Maritime work is among the most hazardous in the world. Climate, ocean, coastal, and industrial change will create unique challenges for the health and safety of seafarers, fish harvesters, and workers in coastal ports and facilities such as aquaculture, including for those commuting to and from remote locations. These challenges need to be addressed while simultaneously reducing the environmental hazards associated with these infrastructures. ACTING ON WEATHER & CLIMATE: NETWORKS AND INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ADAPTATION/MITIGATION DECISION MAKING (WP2) SEARCH AND RESCUE IN REMOTE REGIONS (WP3)

Dalhousie University Rachel McLay Research Assistant (WP6) Rachel McLay is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University. As a research associate with the Rural Futures Research Centre and as an HQP with FOCI, she has conducted surveys on political, socio-cultural, and environmental change in Atlantic Canada. Her SSHRC-funded doctoral research is focused on political change in Atlantic Canada. To learn more about Rachel McLay's PhD - PhD student in Sociology Rachel McLay selected as one of Dal’s Open Thinkers - Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology - Dalhousie University

Memorial University Yixi Yang Research Assistant (WP6) Yixi Yang is a Ph.D. candidate at Sociology department, Memorial University. She is a research assistant with FOCI IWP6 Perceptions of Climate Change and Social Futures. Her research interests include public perceptions of climate change, climate change discourse, environmental politics and governance, public participation in environmental governance, and social network analysis.