Rosemary Ommer 
Adjunct Professor (History) and SSHRC Grants Facilitator
University of Victoria

Dr. Rosemary Ommer is past Director of the Institute for Coastal and Ocean Research (ICOR), University SSHRC Grantscrafter, office of the VP Research at the University of Victoria, and Adjunct Professor in the History Department there. She was the Project Director of the Coasts Under Stress Project, the Director of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities (CIH), and of the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She has sat on several volunteer boards, including that of AquaNet and of the Vanier Institute of the Family, of which she is an honorary life member.

Rosemary holds a PhD in economic historical geography from McGill University, an MA in historical geography from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and an MA from the University of Glasgow. She researched and taught in Atlantic Canada from the 1970s until 1997, and has taught and researched in British Columbia since then.

She is the author and/or editor of several books including Coasts Under Stress: Restructuring and Social-ecological Health, McGill Queen's Press, 2007; Power and Restructuring: Shaping Canada's Coastal Society And Environment, Iser Books 2006 (with Peter Sinclair); Fishing Places, Fishing People: issues in Canadian small-scale fisheries, published by the University of Toronto Press in 1999, an interdisciplinary look at fisheries in Canada which she co-edited with Dianne Newell of UBC; and The Resilient Outport, ISER Books 2002, which contains the results of the Eco-research project at Memorial.