Jackie Dawson

Canada Research Chair in Environment, Society, and Policy and Associate Professor, University of Ottawa

Arctic, sea ice changes, global trade routes, shipping, tourism, climate change, ocean, policy

Media

Canadians want more action on climate change, but are worried about ‘economic hardship’

Where Arctic Cod Goes, Marine Mammals Follow

Canada’s Paris-pipeline paradox

Indigenous people help develop better Arctic shipping routes

Politicians and scientists need strong connections during the coronavirus crisis — and beyond

Research team injects Inuit views into Ottawa’s plan for safe Arctic shipping

Biography

Jackie Dawson is the Canada Research Chair in Environment, Society, and Policy and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Geomatics at the University of Ottawa. She is an Applied Scientist working on the human and policy dimensions of environmental change in ocean and coastal regions. Dawson is considered an expert in Arctic shipping, Arctic tourism, Arctic development, and Arctic oceans governance. She has served on two Canadian Council of Academies’ Expert Panels, is an elected member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada and is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. She actively contributes to science-policy. Her research was used as a basis for recommendations in an Auditor General of Canada report on Arctic navigation; she was lead author on two chapters of the recent Arctic Council Adaptation Actions science report, and she recently led the drafting of the 2018 G7 science statement focused on Arctic oceans and resilient communities.

Expertise

  • Sea ice changes
  • Arctic
  • Global trade routes
  • Shipping
  • Tourism
  • Climate change
  • Ocean
  • Policy