The Zone (the blue area on the map) is the primary area of focus in this project, providing a platform for the innovative development of partnerships between Indigenous communities and scientists to examine rapidly-changing coastal systems. Understanding and predicting change within these locally, regionally and globally significant ecosystems requires the co-development of research objectives and approaches. In this project, we focus on the coastal and inner shelf environments across seasons and along a latitudinal gradient in coastal Labrador during both ice-covered and ice-free months of the year, in coastal oceanography and ecosystems from the terrestrial-marine interface out onto the continental shelf.