Dr. Norm R. Catto, Professor of Geography, visiting from Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland, has begun teaching the last core class, Climate Change and Policy, for the Master´s Program in Coastal and Marine Management. His research interests include coastal geomorphology, sedimentology, Quaternary sea level change, and the impacts of climate change. He has been the editor-in-chief of "Quaternary International" since 1999, and previously was Associate Editor from the foundation of the journal in 1989.

Dr. Catto has also just completed the Canadian edition of "Natural Hazards and Disasters", a textbook for university students. His interests are in measuring weather driven events that are currently happening or will happen in the near future, and that are having impact on specific communities, as well as providing ideas as to how to cope with them. He and his students have research interests in the Canadian Arctic (Sachs Harbour, Gjoa Haven, Tuktoyaktuk), Serbia, South Korea, Germany, Argentina, Estonia (among others), and many places throughout Canada.