Colin Scott, Anthropology, McGill
Professor Scott, principal investigator, has worked in Wemindji and James Bay for 30 years. He focuses on Cree indigenous knowledge and its interaction with 'western' knowledge in creating and co-managing culturally-appropriate protected areas, and analysis of aboriginal rights and politics in contexts of natural resource development.
Graduate Students: Katherine Scott, Wren Nasr

Fikret Berkes, Natural Resource Institute, University of Manitoba
Professor Berkes contributes to the project his wealth of knowledge in the area of indigenous knowledge and the co-management of protected areas.
Graduate Student: Claude Peloquin (graduated 2008)

Peter Brown, Geography, Natural Resource Sciences and MSE, McGill
Professor Brown examines Cree cosmology and environmental values and how the Cree culture could inform western environmental thought.
Graduate Student: Jessica Labrecque, Margaret Forrest (graduated 2006)

André Costopoulos, Archaeology, McGill
Professor Costopoulos is interested in what the prehistory of the Wemindji territory can teach us about human adaptation to environmental change.
Graduate students: Ieva Paberzyte, Colin Nielson, Jessica Dolan

Gail Chmura, Geography, McGill
Professor Chmura applies techniques of historical ecology and paleoecology to examine rates of coastal systems change and the paleoenvironmental context for early human occupation of the Old Factory Lake area.
Graduate student: Florin Pendea

Jim Fyles. Natural Resource Sciences, McGill
Professor Fyles studies the dynamics of ecosystems in Wemindji region landscapes in terms of complex interactions among soil, vegetation, animals and people.  Graduate student: Kristen Whitbeck

Murray Humphries. Natural Resource Sciences, McGill
Professor Humphries examines wildlife ecological interactions among different species, vegetation and habitat.
Graduate students : Jason Sampson, Heather Milligan (graduated 2008)

The late R. Grant Ingram. Earth and Ocean Sciences, UBC
In 2007, sadly, Professor Ingram was lost to our team and to the wider academic world, where he made signal contributions in northern research. Building on his vast knowledge of the coastal biophysical environment of James and Hudson Bay, his input to our project focused on changes in circulation and tides in coastal waters as these were affected by oceanic processes and isostatic uplift, and on how these changes affected biota at the land-ocean interface. He is sorely missed.

Greg Mikkelson.Philosophy and MSE, McGill University
Professor Mikkelson focuses on connections between economic equality and biological diversity, and between ecological science and environmental ethics.
Graduate students: Ugo Lapointe, Wren Nasr

Monica Mulrennan. Geography, Concordia
Professor Mulrennan evaluates changes in the Wemindji coastal environment and human's adaptation to change via resource harvesting.
Graduate students: Veronique Bussieres, Jesse Sayles (Graduated 2008)

Raja Sengupta, Geography and MSE, McGill
Professor Sengupta generates spatial data (Digital Elevation Models and Bathymetry) using GIS and remote sensing. Future work may involve eco-hydrological modeling and agent-based models.

Renée Sieber, Geography and MSE, McGill
Professor Sieber focuses on community level data collection, personnel training and indigenous knowledge representation through mapping technology.
Graduate student: Gwylim Eades; Chris Wellen (graduated 2008); Undergraduate student: Jesslyn Stoncius (graduated 2006)

Rodney MarkChief, Cree Nation of Wemindji

Edward Georgekish. Cree Hunters and Trappers Association, Wemindji

Dorothy Stewart. Community Liaison, Wemindji

Beverly Mayappo, Cultural Coordinator, Cree Nation of Wemindji and Wemindji Community Museum

Julie Hébert. Protected Areas, Ecological Heritage and Parks.
Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, Quebec.

Valter Blazevic. GIS and Web Development. Strata360 - Cartography and Interactive Media.
In the service of sustainable development, community and cultural heritage

Véronique Bussières. PhD., Concordia University
A marine protected area framework for the James Bay Cree Community.

Jessica Dolan. PhD., Department of Anthropology
Cultural resources in a marine protected area for the James Bay Cree Community.

Gwilym Luke Eades. PhD., Department of Geography
Theory and application of distributed mapping systems for scientific, artistic, and qualitative research, and for cultural preservation. 

Margaret Forrest. M.A. 2006, Department of Geography
Relating the Cree ecological paradigm and indigenous cultural values of relationship and respect with that of the dominant society.

Jessica Labrecque. M.A., Department of Geography
Considering the meanings of wealth and development in neoliberalism, capabilities theory for the James Bay Cree.

Ugo Lapointe. M.Sc., UQAM
Local attitudes towards industrial resource extraction on Wemindji territory and implications of development to a land-based way of life.

Heather Milligan. M.Sc. 2008, Natural Resource Sciences
Beaver ecology through identifying, measuring and recording beavers’ aquatic plant diet.

Wren Nasr. Ph.D., Department of Anthropology
Elaborating an understanding of the dynamic interactions between indigenous Cree worldview and scientific knowledge.

Colin Nielsen. Ph.D., Department of Anthropology (Archaeology)
Prehistoric settlement and lithic trade networks through archaeological excavation at Old Factory Lake and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Ieva Paberzyte. PhD., Department of Anthropology (Archaeology)
Analyzing ethnographic data to help interpret archeological finds from the Old Factory Lake, to understand the evolution of settlement and subsistence patterns in the region.

Claude Peloquin. M.N.R.M., 2008, Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba
Understandings of social-ecological complexity and change, focusing on the goose hunt.

Florin Pendea. PhD., Department of Geography
Rates of coastal ecosystem change during Late Holocene in Eastern James Bay.

Jason Samson. PhD., Natural Resource Sciences
The determinants of beaver abundance in the Wemindji territory, in particular the relationship between forest fire, plant community structure and beaver food selection.

Jesse Sayles. M.Sc., 2008, Dept. of Geography, Planning and Environment; Concordia University
Coastal land change or growth and human adaptation to change with respect to harvesting resources such as goose hunting and fishing.

Katherine Scott. Ph.D., Department of Anthropology
M.A. Research (completed): Cree and Western science perspectives on post-fire ecology in Wemindji Territory. PhD: Community museums in the Cree Territories.

Jesslyn Stoncius. B.A. Honours, 2006, Department of Geography
Geo-visualization of Wemindji Narratives.

Christopher Wellen. M.Sc., 2008, Department of Geography
Cree spatial ontology of hydrography and its place in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for Wemindji.