Cold Oceans and Northern Strength is a pan-university initiative, which highlights and builds upon this unique area of strength. It launched in 2014, as a way to share Memorial’s oceans and northern stories to external partners, as well as those able to provide the funding to make the university’s groundbreaking research and other activities possible.

Memorial houses numerous world-class centers for research, teaching and learning, and public engagement related to the ocean and North, from the Marine Institute to the Bonne Bay Aquarium and Research Station. Memorial has hundreds of faculty and researchers, in departments ranging from Engineering to Ocean Sciences, English Literature to Archaeology, dedicated to examining marine and Northern life in diverse ways.

Sheila Downer

Strategic Northern Liaison 
Vice-President Northern Community Engagement | UArctic
Forteau, NL
Phone: 709-424-3731
Email: sdowner@mun.ca