Emma is interested in decolonizing methodologies and research justice as science praxis. Her current work supports community-engaged monitoring of changes in the coastal marine environment of Nunatsiavut, in northern Labrador. She is developing collaborative projects with Inuit community members that focus on climate change impacts in Nunatsiavut. This includes her role as lead for the Nunatsiavut Sea Ice Observers Program (NSIOP) a collaborative research program that places Inuit Knowledge through observation at the centre of the ongoing need to understand subarctic and arctic coastal ecosystems to better inform community members in ways that enable adaptation and resource management as well as preserving long-standing Inuit values. Emma is a founding member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Environmental Justice, an organization that works for decolonial environmental justice and non-extractive climate change solutions (the-ciej.org and @Decolonize4Climate).
You can reach Emma at ej.harrison@dal.ca
Normandeau, A., Eamer, J.B.R., Way, R.G., Harrison, E.J., et al. Evidence for subsea permafrost in subarctic Canada linked to submarine groundwater discharge. Nature Geoscience (2024) 17, pp. 1022-1030. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01497-z
Harrison, Emma J., R. Webb, S. Ziegler, E. Oliver (2022), Close to Home – Co-producing Research Questions and Solutions to Coastal Erosion In Nunatsiavut, Journal of Ocean Technology, 17(3), pp. 20-29. pdf
Harrison, E.J., McElroy, B., Willenbring, J.K. Quantifying Rates of Landscape Unzipping. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface (2022) 127 (4), e2021JF006236
Harrison, E.J., Brocard, G.B., and Willenbring, J. (2021) Quaternary record of terrestrial environmental change in response to climatic forcing and anthropogenic perturbations. Quaternary Science Reviews. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106770
Harrison, E.J., Brocard, G.B., Lyons, N., Willenbring, J. (2020) Seepage erosion in the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico relict landscapes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 10.1029/2019JF005341