Jackie Dawson is a Canadian academic who holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Environment,Society and Policy. Dawson is also co-Scientific Director of ArcticNet,where she is currently a member of the Board of Directors.[1][2]
Dawson graduated in 1997 from Barrie North Collegiate Institute[3] in Barrie,Ontario,Canada. In 2019,she was inducted into the Barrie North Collegiate Institute Wall of Honour.[4][5] Dawson completed a Master's in 2003 at the University of Otago,with a thesis on environmental values of marine tourists.[6]
Research
Dawson's research focuses on the impacts of Ecotourism in the Canadian arctic and sub-arctic,and also on how maritime shipping in a time of climate warming will affect the Canadian arctic,both terrestrial Inuit communities and culturally significant marine protected areas.[7]
During the 2024 ArcticNet fifth International Arctic Change Conference,Dawson spoke about her research involving analyzed shipping season lengths from 2007 to 2021,finding that narrow passages were created when multi-year ice moved south from colder regions.[9][10][11] This resulted in increases in ship traffic in Hudson Strait,Baffin Island,and Northwest Passage,and reduction in accident rates among commercial ships.[11]
Dawson is a Researcher in Residence at Adventure Canada.[12] Dawson was elected as a member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada in 2023,and selected as a 2024 Dorothy Killam Fellow by the Killam Trusts.[13][14]
Community service and leadership
Dawson is a member of the Global Young Academy,which aims to give "a voice to young scientists around the world."[15]
Dawson's arctic research practice emphasizes collaboration with Inuit colleagues in communities across Nunavut and beyond.[16][17] She serves as a member of the Council of Canadian Academies' (CCA) Scientific Advisory Committee,and has served as an expert panelist for two of CCA's reports:Commercial Marine Shipping Accidents:Understanding the Risks in Canada (2016),and The Value of Commercial Marine Shipping to Canada (2017).[18][19][20]
In May 2021,the Arctic Corridors Research Project that Dawson leads,with colleagues,Natalie Carter,Natasha Simonee and Shirley Tagalik,received a Governor General's Innovation Award.[16] The project "consulted with 14 northern communities —seven in Nunavut —to find out how to best protect culturally significant marine areas in the Arctic as ship traffic increases".[16]
Honours and awards
2021 Governor General of Canada's Innovation Awards[7]
2015 Government of Ontario Early Researcher Award[26] recipient[27]
Selected bibliography
Jackie Dawson,Emma J. Stewart,Harvey Lemelin &Daniel Scott (2010) The carbon cost of polar bear viewing tourism in Churchill,Canada. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 18:3,319–336,doi:10.1080/09669580903215147
J. Dawson,M. J. Johnston,E. J. Stewart,C. J. Lemieux,R. H. Lemelin,P. T. Maher &B. S.R Grimwood (2011) Ethical considerations of last chance tourism. Journal of Ecotourism 10:3,250–265. doi:10.1080/14724049.2011.617449
J. Dawson,M.E. Johnston,E.J. Stewart (2014) Governance of Arctic expedition cruise ships in a time of rapid environmental and economic change. Ocean &Coastal Management 89:88–99. doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2013.12.005.
Dawson,J.,Pizzolato,L.,Howell,S.,Copland,L.,&Johnston,M. (2018). Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Ship Traffic in the Canadian Arctic from 1990 to 2015. Arctic 71(1),15–26. [28]
Huntington,Henry P.,Julia Olsen,Eduard Zdor,Andrey Zagorskiy,Hyoung Chul Shin,Olga Romanenko,Bjørn Kaltenborn,Jackie Dawson,Jeremy Davies,and Erin Abou-Abbsi. "Effects of Arctic commercial shipping on environments and communities:Context,governance,priorities." Transportation Research Part D:Transport and Environment 118 (2023):103731.
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