ICT Help Desk serves as our point of contact for all operational issues and general queries.
Located in room W2051 of the Marine Institute’s Ridge Road Campus
Telephone: 709-778-0628 Email: servicedesk@mi.mun.ca
Ask ICT Help Desk on Microsoft Teams (8:30am - 4:30pm)
It's time to start planning your future
Our Student Recruitment Office is your first point of contact to find out more about the Marine Institute.
Registration begins online (7:00 P.M.) - Fall term for diploma of technology, diploma, advanced diploma, post-graduate certificate and technical certificate programs.
Students who have been accepted and conditionally accepted into programs requiring the submission of medicals and/or letters of conduct will not be permitted to register for classes unless satisfactory copies of the required medicals and/or letter of conduct have been received by the Registrar's Office
Office of Research and Development
Leaders in the ocean and maritime sectors
Dr. Rob Brown is a research scientist whose primary focus surrounds human factors and equipment performance in maritime and offshore emergency situations – particularly through the processes of evacuation, survival and rescue. His research is conducted both in laboratory environments and at full scale during field trials. Results collected are disseminated through peer-reviewed publications, academic conferences, media interviews and workshops. Dr. Brown is regularly engaged with development of regulations at the International Maritime Organization and is involved with standards development through the Canadian Standards Association and the International Standards Organization.
Some specific research areas of Dr. Brown include:
Recent/Current research projects:
Summer School in Nuuk, Greenland “The Politics of Maritime Security in the Arctic” (collaboration between University of Greenland, University of Copenhagen and Memorial University (Marine Institute). Information is available online.
Funded graduate student opportunities exist – please email for details.
Solberg, K. E., R. Brown, E. Skogvoll & O.T. Gudmestad (2017). Risk Reduction as a Result of Implementation of the Functional Based IMO Polar Code in the Arctic Cruise Industry. In The Interconnected Arctic—UArctic Congress 2016 (Chapter 26, pp. 257-268). Springer, Cham.
Brown, R., Galea, E.R., Deere, S. & Filippidis, L. (2015). Using Infra-Red Technology to Track People Moving in the Built Environment – Accuracy of Automatically Measuring Walking Speed and Crowd Congestion. Proceedings of the 6th international symposium on Human Behaviour in Fire, Cambridge, UK, Sept 28-30, 2015.
E. Galea, S. Deere, R. Brown & L.Filippidis (2013). An Experimental Validation of an Evacuation Model Using Data-Sets Generated from Two Large Passenger Ships. Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) Journal of Ship Research, Vol. 57, No. 3, pp 155-170, Sept 2013.
Brown, R. K. Evely, G. Small & S. MacKinnon (2013). On the use of the Dacon Scoop to Recover Loaded Liferafts at Sea. Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, June 2013.
Brown, R., Galea, E., Deere, S. & Filippidid, L. (2013). Response Time Data-Sets for Large Passenger Ferries and Cruise Ships Derived from Sea Trials. Transactions Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA), Vol 155, Part A1, International Journal of Maritime Engineering, Jan-Mar, 2013.
