Dr. Anne Salomon Simon Fraser University Looking backwards to guide the future of resilient and just coastal oceans and communities Operating within the biophysical limits of our biosphere while ensuring its equitable use is the central challenge of our time. This is acutely true among the world’s coastal oceans where seafood, and the social-ecological systems in which they are embedded, provide the nutrition, livelihoods, and well-being for over 3 billion people today. Yet, for millennia, people have been developing innovative practices to maintain resilient relationships within coastal ecosystems amid disturbances from exploitation, predators, and extreme climatic events. By weaving ecological, archaeological, and Indigenous knowledge, I will share recent discoveries from Canada’s west coast kelp forests and ancestral clam gardens to show how linking ecosystems and people and democratizing marine science can help us navigate towards more ecologically resilient and socially just operating space for Canada’s coastal oceans and beyond.
Bio: " I am an applied marine ecologist and professor at Simon Fraser University working at the nexus of community and ecosystem ecology, sustainability science, and ocean policy. My research aims to advance our understanding of the relationships between humans and the productivity, biodiversity, and resilience of marine ecosystems with the goal of informing ecologically sustainable and socially just management policies. I work across disciplines and sectors to catalyze transdisciplinary research that addresses environmental challenges of concern to Canadian and global society. To that end, I cultivate research partnerships among Indigenous knowledge holders, government and non-government organizations, and natural and social scientists. As a strong advocate of evidence-based decision making, I link science to policy by co-designing my research with Indigenous, provincial, and federal government agencies and resource users from the outset, with knowledge mobilization as a fundamental goal of my research. Much of my work aims to incorporate archaeological and Indigenous knowledge into quantitative ecological analyses to provide greater time-depth to my analyses of coastal system dynamics and democratize ocean science and governance.” Comments are closed.
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