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Memorial University Jennifer Charles Research Assistant (WP7) More to come.

Peter Kikkert Co-investigator (WP3) Dr. Peter Kikkert is the Irving Shipbuilding Chair in Arctic Policy and an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the Brian Mulroney Institute of Government, St. Francis Xavier University. Dr. Kikkert's research focuses on how to strengthen search and rescue (SAR), emergency management, and disaster response capabilities and bolster community disaster resilience in remote, isolated, northern, and coastal communities. In particular, his work focuses on the roles, responsibilities, and capabilities of the community-based organizations involved in SAR and emergency response (e.g. Coast Guard Auxiliary, volunteer SAR teams, Canadian Rangers), and how to better incorporate these groups into broader SAR and emergency management plans and policies. In pursuing this research program, Dr. Kikkert works extensively with northern communities, community-based organizations, and with the federal, territorial, and municipal agencies involved in public safety, SAR, and emergency management. Dr. Kikkert is involved in Work Package 3 “Search and Rescue in Remote Regions”.

University of Trieste / Memorial University Giovanni Rognoni Visiting Doctoral Student (WP1) Giovanni Rognoni is a Ph.D. student in Engineering at the University of Trieste, Italy. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the University of Trieste, with a thesis on the vibration assessment on a research catamaran developed in conjunction with Klaipeda University. He spent a period abroad at Strathclyde University in Glasgow. After graduation, he worked as a research assistant at the Ship Noise and Vibration Laboratory, participating in different projects. His research interests include vibration and noise prevention in marine structures, assessment of airborne and underwater radiated noise from ships, and new marine technologies. Currently, he is a visiting Ph.D. student at Memorial University, working at the Autonomous Ocean Systems Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Lorenzo Moro. His research project focuses on designing an acoustic metamaterial integrated onboard ships to reduce underwater radiated noise generated by internal machinery. The Italian university ministry selected and approved the research as a green thematic Ph.D. in the context of the National Operative Program 2014-2020, funded by the European Social Fund REACT-EU. The aim is to mitigate the ship's environmental footprint making a further step towards ocean preservation and conservation of underwater ecosystems.

Max Liboiron Lead (WP4) Max Liboiron is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Memorial University. A leader in interdisciplinary research, Liboiron’s community-based environmental monitoring projects have been funded by Northern and Indian Affairs (Northern Contaminants Program), SSHRC, MEOPAR, and ArcticNet, among others. Liboiron writes in both social and natural science forums as well as inventing scientific hardware and protocols for both plastic pollution monitoring and humble lab cultures. Liboiron has been an expert witness for the House of Commons and has worked with the Multi-Materials Stewardship Board (MMSB), 5 Gyres Institute, the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP), and the Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) as an expert on plastic pollution.

BUILDING RESILIENT COASTAL COMMUNITIES THROUGH SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE (WP7) FOCI’s Work Package on ‘Building Resilient Coastal Communities through Social and Community Enterprise’ examines challenges and opportunities of regenerating and enhancing the resilience of remote and rural coastal communities in the face of climate, ocean and social-ecological change through social enterprises. Social enterprises are organizational infrastructures that draw on commercial activities to address social and environmental goals. This Work Package draws on a new heuristic model, called PLACE : P romote community leaders, Li nk divergent perspectives, A mplify local capacities and assests, C onvey compelling stories, and E ngage both/and thinking . Building on a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant that examined the Shorefast Foundation, a charitable organization that operates and supports social businesses on Fogo Island, the PLACE Model emphasizes the power of place-based social enterprises for contributing to more inclusive, economically diverse and culturally resilient coastal communities and infrastructure. MEET THE TEAM Natalie Slawinski Lead Mark Stoddart Co-Investigator Thomas Cooper Co-Investigator Kelly Vodden Co-Investigator Wendy Smith Co-Investigator Blair Winsor Co-Investigator Alex Stewart Co-Investigator HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL (HQP) Marie Louise Aastrup Postdoctoral Fellow 2022-23 Sarah Langer-Smith Research Assistant 2020-22 Ario Seto Postdoctoral Fellow 2020-24 Jennifer Nicole Brenton Doctoral Candidate Alumni Nancy Leung Research Assistant 2024 Bruna Souza de Brito Research Assistant 2022-23 Jennifer Charles Research Assistant 2022 Brennan Lowery Postdoctoral Fellow 2020-21 Ismael Golmohammadi Postdoctoral Fellow 2024-25 (Position Complete) Pedram Pouragasari Doctoral Student 2021-22 OUR PARTNERS

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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.

Memorial University Emre Cilkaya Doctoral Student (WP1)