Past Employees
Linda Nuotio-Flynn
Linda Nuotio-Flynn is an alumnus of Memorial University, where she holds undergraduate degrees. She has worked with Memorial University in Western Labrador since 1998. She is an active member of the community and commits much time and talent in the areas of arts, education and economic development. Her personal passions include theatre and music.
Mark David Turner
Mark Turner is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto where he is completing his dissertation on the history of film production on the island of Newfoundland. His research interests are rooted in Newfoundland and Labrador performance practices and their relationship to ethnography, politics, culture and archival practice. He received his B.A. in English from Memorial University of Newfoundland and his M.A. from the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama. Throughout the last fifteen years, Mark has been both a practitioner and educator of a variety of performance arts.
Derek Wilton
Professor Derek H.C. Wilton, Ph.D., P.Geo. has been a faculty member in the Department of Earth Sciences since 1983. He is a St. John’s native and received his B.Sc. from MUN, his M.Sc. from the University of British Columbia, and his Ph.D from MUN. He has been conducting research since 1984 in Labrador from Cape Chidley to southern Labrador. He has sailed the northern Labrador coast, north of Nain, five times, up to circum-navigating Killiniq Island (once); his most recent expedition was the subject of a Nature of Things episode of the Geologic Journey series. He has been involved with research groups/companies/ government surveys that have documented a wide variety of geological occurrences throughout Labrador, including geochemistry on archeological specimens of Ramah chert. In November-December, 2006, he spent six weeks visiting nineteen Labrador communities with high schools; he talked to the students about the geology of Labrador and careers in the mineral industry and at night held public meetings to discuss research. He received the Education Award from the Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland and Labrador for outstanding contributions to Geoscience Education in 2004 and was awarded the W.H.Gross Medal by the Mineral Deposits Division of the Geological Association of Canada in 1991.
Jon Beale
Jon Beale was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. He graduated from Queen's University with a BAH in Economics, and completed an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics in England.
Jon's interests are in community development and creating lasting partnerships between communities and other stakeholders. Before coming to Labrador, Jon worked in Zambia in Sub-Saharan Africa, supporting farmer groups to start their own businesses.
Since joining the team at the LI, Jon has been involved in community field research on both the North and South Coasts, coordination and oversight of multiple stakeholder meetings, as well as the management of the "Labrador/ians on Film" screening series.
Jon loves to hike and camp and loves the Big Land for all the opportunity there is to be outdoors.
Dr. Johanna Wolf
Dr. Johanna Wolf joined the Labrador Institute in 2010 as the first postdoctoral fellow in Labrador. She is also the Senior Science Coordinator of the Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS) project at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her research examines the individual, social, cultural and institutional dimensions of responding climate change. Previously, Johanna was a Senior Research Associate at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, UK. She holds a BSc in environmental science (Royal Roads University, Canada) and an MSc and PhD in international development (University of East Anglia, UK). Johanna has worked as a consultant for the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (Canada), the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (Canada), SciDev.Net (UK), ActionAid Int'l., and the UN Climate Change Secretariat (Germany).
Johanna enjoys playing various muscial instruments, cooking Thai and Indian dishes and baking sourdough bread. She can often be found at the pool swimming lanes or pedaling her bike through town.
Jennifer Butler Wight
Jennifer was born in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, and graduated from Pasadena Academy in 2001.
Jennifer is a Memorial graduate having completed her B.A. in Social/Cultural Studies at Grenfell Campus in 2005. She received her M.A. from the University of Windsor in 2007. One month after defending her Master's thesis, Jennifer moved to Happy Valley-Goose Bay.
Jennifer joined the LI's team in April 2009. Since then, she has taken on various roles in preparing funding grants, copy-editing, webpage maintenance, and she also taught Sociology in MUN's on-site BSw program.
Prior to joining the LI team, Jennifer was the Research Manager with NunatuKavut. She enjoys the outdoors, but also likes cooking and quilting.
