As innovation + strategy manager at CLIMAtlantic, Stephanie strives to center reconciliation, community-building, and systems change in their work. Centering “disruptive kindness” has given meaning and purpose to their Chemical Engineering degree, MBA, and ongoing PhD studies.

Adrian’s work at CLIMAtlantic centres around better understanding how the environment, communities, organizations and sectors relate to one another and function in order to leverage more effective, holistic and sustainable adaptation. He currently lives on the unceded and unsurrendered Wolastoqey territory in New Brunswick, Canada.

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.

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.