Knowledge Mobilization for “Co-developing innovative approaches with Indigenous partners to foster coastal resilience, food security and sustainable marine harvests while enhancing community capacity to proactively respond to marine risks”

We propose to build an interactive website to present results on effects of climate change and hunting/fishing co-developed scenarios on the dynamics of the marine ecosystem in the Canadian Arctic. This will be part of the knowledge mobilisation of the MEOPAR-funded project “Co-developing innovative approaches with Indigenous partners to foster coastal resilience, food security and sustainable marine harvests while enhancing community capacity to proactively respond to marine risks”led by Mélanie Lemire.Through the use of ecosystem, food security models and participatory research, this project merges interdisciplinary scientific data, traditional ecological knowledge, andInuit dietary data to co-construct adaptation strategies that support food security under climate change with the community of Qikiqtarjuaq, Nunavut. The website will prioritize visual representation of the results, including the modelled local marine food web, and interactive infographics showing the different co-developed scenarios (e.g. effects of increasing temperature on species availability). In English and Inuktitut, these visuals will be coupled with short, plain text descriptions of the project, process and results (e.g. what is a food web and why we model ecosystems).The infographics created for the website will be shared in local newspapers, and on social media channels used in the region. As a key partner in the project, the Inuit community of Qikiqtarjuaq will be the main audience, but the website will also serve to communicate the novel approach taken in this project to other coastal communities whose wellbeing depends on subsistence hunting and the health of the marine environment.