Nancy Shackell Email & Phone Number

Dr. Nancy Shackell (she/her) is a Senior Research Scientist at Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Nova Scotia, working for Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). Dr. Shackell research themes include climate change, biodiversity conservation, marine protected area design, spatial ecology and how such information can be applied in an oceans management framework. Dr. Shackell co-led the Aquatic Climate Change Adaptation Services Program in Canada’s Atlantic Basin, coordinating scientific research necessary to identify climate change impacts, to refine applied ocean modelling and to develop adaptation tools for vulnerable coastal regions. She currently serves as co-chair of a Canadian-US Climate and Fisheries Collaboration to advance bilateral scientific research to detect, understand, project and respond to climate-related changes. Dr. Shackell was a part of a UN Independent Group of 15 Scientists (IGS) who wrote the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR), (https://sdgs.un.org/gsdr/gsdr2023) launched September 2023. The GSDR aims to strengthen the science-policy interface at the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development in their review of Agenda 2030, and the Sustainable Development Goals. Through the regional input process of the GSDR report, the IGS recognized a common theme;- the “Science Policy Interface” is starting to include a broader spectrum of society, and there is a need to develop more pathways to dialogue with policy makers. Indeed, dialogues between science and policy makers is evolving into a “Science-Policy-Society” interface. Diverse forms of knowledge and working together towards a common agenda is a promising direction in an age of multiple compounding global risks.

Listed skills include Biodiversity, Aquatic Ecology, Scientific Writing, Marine Biology, and 6 others.