CIOOS Atlantic teamed up with NERACOOS to host “We’re All in the Same Boat”, a three-part webinar series featuring discussions with local experts on scientific, economic, and policy issues facing coastal communities spanning the Arctic to the Northeastern seaboard of the United States. Each of the three seminars coincided with part of the 2021 voyage of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, which partnered with Canada to undertake a research cruise circumnavigating North America. As the Healy passed through the Arctic, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and the Gulf of Maine, experts in a variety of subjects spoke about the challenges they’ve encountered, and how we might develop solutions that transcend borders.
Watch all three webinar recordings on the CIOOS Atlantic YouTube channel.
Series 1. The Arctic
Guest speakers:
- Melanie Zimmerman Consul General, US Embassy
- Andrew Arreak
Research Coordinator, SmartICE - Chris Flanagan
Baffin Fisheries - Christina MacDonald
Arctic Eider Society - Lorenz Meire
Researcher, Greenland Climate Research Centre - Mark Patterson
Professor, Northeastern University - Robert Pickart
Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Michael Sfraga
Director, Wilson Center Polar Institute - Kristin Schild
Glaciologist, Climate Change Institute
Series 2. Newfoundland and Labrador
- Lyra Carr
Consul General, U.S. Consulate General – Halifax - Carl Gouldman
Director, NOAA IOOS Program Office - Larry Mayer
Director, UNH Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping - Jamie Palter
Professor, University of Rhode Island - Keith Lennon
Director of Ocean Science, Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Maxime Geoffroy
Research Scientist, Memorial University Marine Institute - Jamie Tam
Visiting Fellow, Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Fred Kingston
Executive Secretary, Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization - Robert Greenwood
Associate Vice President, Memorial University - John Farrell
Executive Director, U.S. Arctic Research Commission
Series 3. Scotian Shelf and the Gulf of Maine
- Senator Angus King (I-ME)
United States Senate - Vladimir Ryabinin
Executive Secretary, UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission - Nicole LeBoeuf
Assistant Administrator, NOAA National Ocean Service - Dave Forcucci
Marine Science Coordinator, USCGC Healy - Shawn Smith
Senior Research Associate, Center for Ocean-Atmosphere Prediction Studies, Florida State University - Gordon Zhang
Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Michelle Staudinger
Acting Partnership Ecologist, USGS & UMass Amherst - Jennifer Miksis-Olds
Research Professor, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, Joint Hydrology Lab, University of New Hampshire - Paul & Denise Pouliot
Members of the Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki People; Paul Pouliot is Director of COWASS North America - Erin Perry
Deputy Director, Cape Cod Commission - Ariel Smith
Coastal and Marine Team Lead, Coastal Action
