Samantha Calabrese is a Science Planning Officer with Natural Resources Canada’s Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Division. With a background in wildlife biology, her experience lies in environmental programming, particularly through an adaptive management lens. Samantha currently coordinates collaborative initiatives to enhance adaptation knowledge and skills among Canada’s workforce.

Before becoming Executive Director at CLIMAtlantic, Dr. Dietz worked in biodiversity conservation, as ecosystem scientist, and as consultant. Her formal education has given her a science-based understanding of the world, supplemented by her deep caring for nature. She lives as white settler on unceded Mi’kmaw territory in Siknikt (Sackville, NB).

Serge Dupuis is a civil engineering professor at the Université de Moncton, specializing in climate change adaptation and project management. His prior experience was focused on managing municipal infrastructure where he developed extensive expertise in asset management and in creating climate change adaptation plans for both urban and rural communities.

Michèle’s role is to support university-wide climate change educational programming, and to advance and coordinate external professional development and training opportunities. Michèle has over thirty years' experience in sustainability and climate change education and capacity building in Canada and internationally and holds a PhD in Environmental Studies from York University.

Hope Parnham is the Manager of Advocacy and Strategic Affairs with the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA). In practice she is a landscape architect and planner who specializes in coastal risk hazard assessments and sustainable adaptation policy and design solutions for coastal development in Atlantic Canada.

Dr Leanne Webb is science lead for the CSIRO Asia-Pacific Climate intelligence team. Leanne enjoys a technical role, translating climate model output for use in applications that explore projected climate-hazard related impacts targeted to sectors including agriculture, water, fisheries, infrastructure, and health, with the purpose of informing future planning decisions.

As the Knowledge Assessment Manager within the Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Division at Natural Resources Canada, Fiona Warren leads the team delivering Canada’s National Assessment Process. An active, long-time and passionate member of Canada’s adaptation community, she has authored and edited many chapters and reports on this important topic. Meredith Caspell is the Science Assessment Officer for the National Assessment Process lead by Natural Resources Canada. She joined the team after completing her Master's thesis on climate change impacts along the Great Lakes. She has been a contributing author and reviewer of previous national assessment reports.

Dr. Masago has been serving as Head of the Climate Change Adaptation Strategy Research Section since April 2021. His recent research interests include addressing the impacts of climate change in diverse sectors and how scientists can support decision-makers in developing adaptation strategies.

Hope Parnham is the Manager of Advocacy and Strategic Affairs with the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA). In practice she is a landscape architect and planner who specializes in coastal risk hazard assessments and sustainable adaptation policy and design solutions for coastal development in Atlantic Canada. Serge Dupuis is a civil engineering professor at the Université de Moncton, specializing in climate change adaptation and project management. His prior experience was focused on managing municipal infrastructure where he developed extensive expertise in asset management and in creating climate change adaptation plans for both urban and rural communities. Before becoming Executive Director at CLIMAtlantic, Dr. Dietz worked in biodiversity conservation, as ecosystem scientist, and as consultant. Her formal education has given her a science-based understanding of the world, supplemented by her deep caring for nature. She lives as white settler on unceded Mi’kmaw territory in Siknikt (Sackville, NB). Michèle’s role is to support university-wide climate change educational programming, and to advance and coordinate external professional development and training opportunities. Michèle has over thirty years' experience in sustainability and climate change education and capacity building in Canada and internationally and holds a PhD in Environmental Studies from York University. Samantha Calabrese is a Science Planning Officer with Natural Resources Canada’s Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Division. With a background in wildlife biology, her experience lies in environmental programming, particularly through an adaptive management lens. Samantha currently coordinates collaborative initiatives to enhance adaptation knowledge and skills among Canada’s workforce.

Md Omar Faruk is a PhD researcher at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS), ANU. His research explores climate change communication for Indigenous farmers in Bangladesh. With a background in agricultural extension, he focuses on participatory communication and sustainable adaptation strategies for climate resilience.