Degrees: Ph.D. McGill, M.A. Memorial

Email: ommer@uvic.ca | Office: TEF 132

Rosemary Ommer is an adjunct professor in the History Department and the Director, Special Projects, in the office of the VP Research at the University of Victoria, and Principal Investigator of the Coasts Under Stress Project. She is currently the director of ICOR (The Institute for Coastal and Oceans Research) and also the University of Victoria's SSHRC grants facilitator. She has formerly been the Director of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, and of the Institute for Social and Economic research at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She holds a PhD in economic historical geography from McGill University, an MA in historical geography from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and she researched and taught in Atlantic Canada from the early 1970s until 1997.

While at ISER, she was on the Council of SSHRC and became the Principal Investigator on the Tri-council Eco-research project "Sustainability in a Cold-Ocean Coastal Environment" which was successfully completed in 1999; she also undertook to be a partner in the SSHRC-funded "Ethics as a basis for policy decision-making in fisheries management" project which was co-directed by Harold Coward at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at UVic, Tony Pitcher, Director of the UBC Fisheries Centre and herself. With them, she was co-editor of the resultant volume Just Fish: Ethics and Canadian Marine Fisheries (ISER Books 2000). During 1998-99 she was the SSHRC "research facilitator" at the University of Victoria, and taught in the department of economics.

She is the author and/or editor of several books including 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.