Organization
Nunavut Arctic College
Email
brigby@xplornet.com
Phone
+1-613-268-2946
Address
100 Oak Court
Maberly , Ontario K0H 2B0CanadaBioA resident of Nunavut for over 25 years, Bruce has held several senior positions with the federal and territorial governments, and has worked with Inuit organizations throughout Nunavut. These positions have included beginning the Environmental Technology Program of then Arctic College, Interim President of Nunavut Arctic College, a Cabinet appointment as the Science Advisor to the Government of Nunavut and head of the Nunavut Research Institute, Superintendent for Nunavut National Parks, Senior Advisor on Adult Learning for the Department of Education, and President/CEO of the Qulliq Energy Corporation. He has sat on advisory boards for several national and international foundations and agencies such as the Gateways Project, the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, the Northern Science Training Grant Program, the Canadian Circumpolar Institute, and the Polar Continental Shelf Project. Before retiring from the public service in 2011, Bruce was Principal Secretary to Premier Eva Aariak. He is currently working as a management consultant.

 Bruce specializes in: Change management, including functional reviews, strategic planning, business planning, program and policy development and review, organizational design and implementation, organizational refocusing.
 Communications, including planning, research, proposal and report writing, administrative, manuals, annual and technical reports, presentations, speeches and seminars, press releases, popular language summaries of science and technology issues, travel guides.
 Training design, management, delivery and evaluation, including needs assessments, design of customized user modules, packages and seminars, development of learning materials, workbooks, manuals, delivery of training, field or classroom instruction, evaluation.
 Tourism development including product development, training needs assessment and delivery, labour market assessment and development, market analysis and promotion, tour development and event planning.
 Environmental and social impact assessment, monitoring, land use planning, community engagement, science planning and evaluation, and science integration.
 Resource management planning, including parks and tourism development, project impact mitigation and management, community integration, northern regulatory and political processes.
 Project design and development, project management and evaluation; arctic logistics planning and delivery.

Science Specialties

sustainable development, environmental monitoring, resource management, research and logistics planning, community engagement

Current Research

Integration of Inuit traditional knowledge into long-term change monitoring. Science policy and decision making. Metadata structures for long-term research and monitoring programs. Environmental monitoring protocols.