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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.

Memorial University Cindy Marven Community of Practice Engagement Coordinator (IWP2) Cindy holds a MSc (Geography) from the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, where her research interests centred around marine risk and spatial statistical analysis to support search and rescue planning. Her interest in risk broadened to include risk communication and since 2017, she has coordinated the Coast and Ocean Risk Communication Community of Practice ( CORC CoP ), initiated by MEOPAR (the Marine Environmental Observation Prediction and Response) Network, that focuses on bringing practitioners and researchers together from academia, government, industry, and the private sector to address the challenges of communicating risks of coastal and marine hazards, many of which are exacerbated by climate change.

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