Ottawa Program

The Task Force on Arctic Sea Ice and International Policy travelled to Ottawa, Canada from January 25th to February 1st, 2020. Following is a list of the offices and individuals that met with our students. Click here for the original program. 

FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS                                                                                                                      

Canadian Ice Service, Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada

Paul Yang, Associate Director, Prediction Services Operations, Atlantic and Ice Division, Meteorological Service of Canada

Scott Weese, Manager, Analysis and Forecast Operations of Canadian Ice Service, Prediction Services Operations, Atlantic and Ice Division, Meteorological Service of Canada

Dean Flett, Senior Manager, Applied Science and Development Section, Prediction Services Operations, Atlantic and Ice Division, Meteorological Service of Canada

Eric Vaillant, Training and Standards Manager, Ice Field Service, Prediction Services Operations, Atlantic and Ice Division, Meteorological Service of Canada

Tom Zagon, Acting Manager, Applied Science and Development – Ice, Prediction Services Operations, Atlantic and Ice Division, Meteorological Service of Canada

Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

Barry Pottle, Senior Aboriginal Awareness Officer, Learning and Well Being Directorate, Human Resources Work Services Branch

Christopher Penney, Manager, Relationships, Inuit-Crown Partnership Directorate, Reconciliation Secretariat, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

Jyoti Bhargava, Senior Analyst, Intergovernmental and International Relations Directorate, Indigenous and External Relations Branch

Mackenzie Vézina, Junior Policy Analyst, Intergovernmental and International Relations Directorate, International and External Relations Branch, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

Marko DeGuzman, Student Policy Analyst, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada.

Global Affairs Canada

Jeannette Menzies, Senior Advisor, Nordic and Polar Relations, Global Affairs Canada

Ana Maria Araujo, Senior Policy Analyst, Nordic and Polar Relations, Global Affairs Canada

Christina Nguyen, Senior Policy Analyst, Defense and Security Relations

Simon Cridland, Deputy Director, Oceans and Environmental Law, Global Affairs Canada

INDIGENOUS WALKS AND INUIT ORGANIZATIONS

Indigenous Walks (guided tours)

Hunter Mckenzie (Métis/Cree/Mohawk), Guide

Inuit Circumpolar Council (international Inuit organization)

Stephanie Meakin, Senior Science Advisor

Carole Simon, Executive Assistant

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (national Inuit organization)

Kevin Kablutsiak, Director, Communications

James Kuptana, Manager, Environment and Wildlife

 Nunavut Sivuniksavut (Inuit post-secondary school)

Murray Angus, Co-Founder, Executive Director

Shelton Nipisar, Arviat, Nunavut, 2^nd year student

Lilly Parr, Cape Dorset, Nunavut, 2^nd year student

Mary Sarah Nikki-Pisco, Iqaluit, Nunavut, 2^nd year student

UNIVERSITIES

Carleton University, Public Policy and Administration

Frances Abele, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Academic Director of the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation, Fellow of the Centre for Governance and Public Management, and Research Fellow at the Institute for Research on Public Policy, Carleton University

Robert Hammitt, Ph.D. student, Public Policy and Administration

University of Ottawa Televised Symposium

A Melting Arctic: Implications of Sea-Ice Loss on Governing the Arctic

Panel #1: Military Operations and Arctic Sea Ice Loss

Moderator: Mark Salter, Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa

Lieutenant Commander Sylvain Bernier, Royal Canadian Navy

Major Conrad Schubert, Vice Commander, Joint Task Force North, Canadian Forces

Panel #2: Arctic Reporting, Shipping and Governance

Moderator: Nadine Fabbi, Canadian Studies Center/International Policy Institute, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

Eilis Quinn, Reporter, Eye on the Arctic

Alison Cook, Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Ottawa

Mathieu Landriault, Research Associate, Center for International Policy Studies; Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Canada, Trent University

Sponsored by the Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa; International Policy Institute, Canadian Studies Center and the Center for Global Studies, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington; Institute for Science, Society and Policy, University of Ottawa; North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network; and Observatoire de la politique et la sécurité de l’Arctique, École nationale d’administration publique.

EMBASSIES

Delegation of the European Union to Canada

Eva Palatova, Head of Political and Public Affairs Section, Counsellor (Czech Republic)

Thomas Gilbert, Political and Public Affairs Section (France)

Asa Corneliusson, Intern (Sweden)

Embassy of Finland

Jyrki Nissilä, Minister-Counsellor, Deputy Head of Mission

Embassy of Iceland

Pétur Ásgeirsson, Ambassador

Ólöf Dögg Sigvaldadóttir, Attaché

Embassy of the United States of America

Lonzell ‘Bud’ Locklear, Special Adviser for Energy and Environment

Robert Tibbetts, Environment, Science and Technology, and Health Officer, and Arctic Officer

Joseph Crook, Embassy Spokesperson (Jackson School alumnus)

Susan Bridenstine, Cultural Affairs Officer

Stephen Sztuk, Analyst, Legal Attaché Office

INDIVIDUALS

Eric Finke, US Environmental Protection Agency (retired), Bellingham, Washington

Whit Fraser, author, True North Rising, Ottawa

Joanne Muzak, Professional Editor and Writing Consultant, Montréal

Barry Pottle, Inuk photographer, Ottawa

The Research Study Tour to Ottawa is part of the Don C. Hellmann Task Force Program, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle—the capstone experience in the undergraduate International Studies Program; and, the Jackson School’s International Policy Institute.

 Funding was made possible by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York; and by the Canadian Studies Center and Center for Global Studies with Title VI grant funding administered by the International and Foreign Language Education office in the Office of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education.