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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.

Marine Institute, Memorial University Yang Ji Master's Student (WP3) Yang Ji is a MSc. candidate in Maritime Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Beginning his academic sojourn with degrees in psychology and education from the University of Toronto, a personal passion for ships then guided him to a diploma in naval architecture at the Marine Institute. A pivotal third-year project on expeditionary cruise ship design introduced Yang to the intricacies of human factors and maritime evacuation. This experience, coupled with his intrigue about passenger safety beyond mere ship design, channeled him towards his current Master's endeavor. Now, Yang seeks to model the impact of fixed-wing search and rescue (SAR) aircraft on overall rescue duration. Merging his diverse background with this research, he aims to enhance SAR efficacy and offer insights beneficial for strategic maritime planning and acquisitions.

Martin Day Co-investigator (WP2) Dr. Martin Day is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is trained in social psychology and has interests in understanding people’s attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours. In particular, his research has focused on better understanding how people’s beliefs relate to their behaviours on a variety of societal topics, including the environment, as well as social and economic issues. His research methodology includes conducting surveys of people’s beliefs and attitudes, and creating novel study materials and questionnaires. Dr. Day has expertise on how psychological factors can influence and explain people’s beliefs, and how to accurately assess and evaluate people’s existing knowledge and opinions on applied topics. Dr. Day will serve as co-lead on WP2.2 (Utility of Climate Guidance). His overarching research duties are to provide expertise on how to accurately assess stakeholders’ knowledge, understanding, and attitudes related to climate guidance.

Kelly Vodden Co-investigator (WP7) Dr. Kelly Vodden is Professor (Research) with the Environmental Policy Institute, School of Science and the Environment and Associate Vice-President of Research and Graduate Studies at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland. She has been engaged in community and regional development research, policy and practice in rural communities across Canada for more than twenty-five years and in NL since 2003. She has published and led projects on topics ranging from rural regional governance to climate change adaptation, place-based rural development and innovation, and sustainable rural drinking water systems, and has supervised more than 50 undergraduate, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows on related topics. Dr. Vodden’s scholarship is motivated by a commitment to conduct research and co-create knowledge for the benefit of rural communities and the ecosystems they depend on and are part of. She seeks to undertake research in a way that involves and is accessible to those who will ultimately use and be impacted by the knowledge generated. This includes knowledge dissemination and mobilization activities through avenues such as research reports and policy briefs, websites/blogs, toolkits, and popular media in addition to more traditional scholarly venues. Her work has primarily been conducted as part of interdisciplinary, and even transdisciplinary teams that seek integrate various disciplinary perspectives and forms of knowledge.

Floris Goerlandt Co-investigator (WP1; WP3) Dr. Goerlandt is an assistant professor in the Industrial Engineering Department at Dalhousie University. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Risk Management and Response Optimization for Marine Industries, through which he develops frameworks, models, and case studies for enhancing safety and minimizing environmental impacts of maritime activities. Before joining Dalhousie University, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Marine Technology unit in Aalto University, Finland. He has worked extensively with maritime authorities, industry, and international organizations, mostly in the Baltic Sea area. Topics included shipping safety management, oil spill preparedness and response risk analysis and management, maritime Search and Rescue (SAR) analysis and modeling, and ship routing in ice. His expertise in risk and safety concepts, theories, and methods, combined with his experience with the maritime industry and policy context is instrumental in achieving the objectives of Work Package 1 “Improving safety and environmental footprints of marine vehicles by design and operation” (WP1). In addition to the above, his knowledge of engineering modeling is also central in achieving the objectives of Work Package 3 “Search and Rescue in remote regions” (WP3).

Robert Brown Lead (WP3) Dr. Robert Brown is a research scientist in offshore and maritime safety at the Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland. His expertise is human factors and equipment performance in maritime and offshore emergency situations (evacuation, survival and rescue). Dr. Brown works both in laboratory environments and at full scale during field trials at sea and uses results to mathematically model the processes and validate models developed. Prior to joining the Marine Institute, Dr. Brown was an ice engineer at C-CORE where he developed Monte-Carlo-based probabilistic risk models for ice impact with offshore structures and pipelines.

Pam Hall Collaborator (IWP4) To learn more please view www.pamhall.ca and https://encyclopediaoflocalknowledge.com/ .

Natalie Slawiski Lead (WP7), Co-investigator (IWP3) Dr. Natalie Slawinski has significant experience working with community partners on teaching, research, and knowledge dissemination activities relating to social enterprise in Newfoundland and Labrador. For example, PI Slawinski has worked closely on research and outreach activities with Shorefast, a registered charity that runs social enterprises and whose mission is cultural and economic resilience for Fogo Island, since 2016 as part of a SSHRC partnership development grant. In 2018, PI Slawinski co-organized a Community Resilience Workshop on Fogo Island, with her research team in partnership with Shorefast. The Fogo Island Workshop, which became the first of a series of ongoing “PLACE Dialogues”, brought together 40 community champions from across Newfoundland and Labrador to discuss the lessons learned from research on the role of Shorefast’s social enterprises for community development on Fogo Island. Building on the lessons from the research, and the dialogue from the Workshop, our research team developed a PLACE framework of community development. With Research Partner Kimberly Orren, co-founder of Fishing for Success, PI Slawinski has collaborated on several knowledge mobilization initiatives including co-organizing the PLACE Dialogues in Petty Harbour Workshop in October 2019. In addition, PI Slawinski is an academic advisor for the Centre for Social Enterprise (CSE) at Memorial University, and a Research Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation (CCSI) in the UK.