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Memorial University Pedram Pouragasari Doctoral Student (WP7) More to come.

Mark Losier Co-investigator (IWP4) Marc Losier is an Assistant Professor of Photography in the Visual Arts program at the School of Fine Arts, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University. He is an artist and long-time educator. Losier’s work examines the ways in which communities form and define their cultural memory through oral histories, images, and iconography. Using photography and images, filmmaking, sound, objects, and installation, he provokes questions about the value of artworks and archival collections. Previous exhibitions include The Rooms (St. John’s), White Water Gallery (North Bay), FAAS 4 Biennial (Sudbury), Art Bar Projects Anna Leonowens Gallery (Halifax), Art in the Open (Charlottetown), and the Art Gallery of Mississauga. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Media from the School of Image Arts, Ryerson University (Toronto, ON) and has previously taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, OCAD University and the School of Image Arts. At Grenfell, he teaches courses on photography and community-engaged art practices at the undergraduate and graduate level and is working to broaden conceptual lens-based pedagogy and student exhibition opportunities in Western Newfoundland. He is the founding director of PULP Gallery, the only student-run visual art exhibition space in the province.

Memorial University Sharon King-Campbell Research Assistant (IWP4) Sharon King-Campbell holds a BFA Theatre (Acting) and a MA English (Creative Thesis) from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, where she is now pursuing her PhD. Her research interests centre around feminist and community-led theatre and performance theory. Outside of academic pursuits, Sharon is an accomplished creator, theatre artist and storyteller who has worked for more than 15 years in the Newfoundland and Labrador theatre industry as a performer, director, producer and playwright. She is also an award-winning writer, and her first book of poetry, 'This Is How It Is,' was published by Breakwater Books in 2021. Sharon is a 2021 Vanier Scholar.

Dalhousie University Shahrokh Bairami-Khankandi Master's Student (WP1) More to come.

ARTISTIC INFRASTRUCTURE FOR NAVIGATING OCEAN AND COASTAL COMMUNITY CHANGE (IWP4) FOCI’s Integration Work Package on ‘Artistic Infrastructure for Navigating Ocean and Coastal Community Change’ consists of a diverse and ambitious program of artistic engagement and outreach. Four Work Package segments led by some of the region’s most accomplished artists use community-engaged drama, music, documentary film, the visual arts, puppetry and social media to open paths to engagement in FOCI and OFI research and to dialogues and creative engagement by diverse publics in imagining alternative future infrastructures. This Integration Work Package does this by reaching into the hearts and minds of diverse audiences and extending that reach to national and global audiences using the arts. MEET THE TEAM Barbara Neis Lead Cameron Forbes Co-investigator Marc Losier Co-investigator Jamie Skidmore Co-investigator Robert Chafe Collaborator Anne Graham Co-investigator Jerry McIntosh Collaborator Timothy Steeves Co-investigator Nancy Dahn Co-Investigator Pam Hall Collaborator Louise Moyes Collaborator D'Arcy Wilson Co-investigator Barbara Doran Collaborator David Lane Collaborator Randolph Peters Collaborator HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL (HQP) Emily Anderson Curator of Engagement 2021-22 Sandra Hewitt-Parsons Research Assistant 2022-24 Sharon King-Campbell Research Assistant 2021-23 OUR PARTNERS

Memorial University Mirella de Oliveira Leis Knowledge Mobilization (Core); Research Assistant (WP9) Mirella Leis is Knowledge Mobilization Coordinator with the Ocean Frontier Institute at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador in St. John’s, Canada. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Oceanography from the Federal University of Paraná in Brazil and a Master of Science degree in Geography from Memorial University. Her research interests include marine conservation and fisheries sustainability, topics on which she has published peer-reviewed articles and public outreach material. She has previously worked as a Research Fellow with the Too Big To Ignore Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research, as Project Coordinator with the Ocean Frontier Institute and volunteered as Ocean Bridge Youth Ambassador with Ocean Wise. Mirella is currently a member of the Newfoundland and Labrador Organization of Women Entrepreneurs (NLOWE) and the Board of Directors of the Coastal and Ocean Information Network - Atlantic (COINAtlantic). She received the distinction of Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies and Staff Volunteer of the Year Award from Memorial University, won the Community Choice Award from Genesis Centre and ranked 1st at the St. John's Food System Kickstarter in recognition of the contribution of her social enterprise The Fish Market in re-connecting fishers to consumers.

Photo by Ritche Perez WHAT'S NEW In this section you will find information about the research, training and engagement initiatives of FOCI, aimed at facilitating opportunities to exchange knowledge and explore how core themes of sustainability, safety, and inclusion can support the development of better future ocean and coastal infrastructures. To stay up to date on what’s new in FOCI, please visit the pages below regularly and subscribe to our mailing list: Newsletters – access FOCI’s Future Ocean News archive Podcasts and Interviews – learn more about FOCI’s researchers and partners through podcast interviews Events – find out about upcoming in-person and virtual webinars, workshops, conferences, forums and other events

Anne Graham Co-investigator (IWP4) Dr. Anne Graham is Associate Professor, jointly, in the Departments of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures and Religious Studies at Memorial University. She is a specialist of early modern French theatre and religious theatre of the medieval and early modern periods. She has written numerous scholarly journal articles on early modern theatre and has undertaken the translation of an early modern play: Abraham sacrifiant, by Theodore de Bèze. She received a SSHRC Insight Development Grant to support this translation work and the workshopping of the play with a group of actors and a dramaturge, Dr. Jamie Skidmore, who was a co-applicant on this project. The workshopping took place over several weekends and culminated in a staged reading in February 2018 at a premiere theatre venue in St. John’s Newfoundland. Dr. Graham worked closely with both the dramaturge and the director, Ian Campbell, on this presentation and acquired practical theatre skills as a result. Dr. Graham’s translation will be published in an annotated edition by ACMRS Press. Dr. Graham is co-investigator on the FOCI research package, IWP4.3 Dramatizing Gender and Fisheries, of which Dr. Skidmore is principal investigator.

Tarah Wright Collaborator (WP6) I have been a faculty member at Dalhousie University since 2001 and am currently a Full Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and the Director of the Education for Sustainability Research Group. My research program over the past two decades has been highly collaborative and multidisciplinary. It has incorporated an interdisciplinary range of fields related to environmental education, nature exposure, sustainability science, the role of the Arts in creating a sustainable future, all with a focus on the emerging field of education for sustainable development (ESD). My research is guided by critical theory, which focuses on critique and transformation in inquiry, allows values and ethics to guide the development and execution of research, and sees researchers in the role of advocates or activists. I situate all of my work within a constructivist paradigm, meaning that my research findings are seen as a snapshot of one of several truths within a particular timeframe. Methodologically, the majority of my work employs a grounded-theory approach where theoretical insights come from the inductive analysis of data rather than in hypotheses. My research also relies on a number of theoretical approaches. First, my research is guided by community based social marketing (CBSM) from within the field of environmental psychology. CBSM is an approach to change management that maintains that in order to understand how to increase environmentally-positive behaviours, we must first understand the demographic we are studying, including the perceived barriers and benefits specific to the population. Further, cultures and structures are shaped by complex, often contrasting belief systems. Understanding a population or community’s nature is essential to developing contextually appropriate change strategies. As such, my research requires a working knowledge of change management and organizational behavior theory. Although I have held major administrative positions at the university since 2001 (Director of Environmental Programs, and Associate Director in the College of Sustainability), my research program has remained active and continues to expand.

Dalhousie University / Western University Matthew Stackhouse Research Assistant (WP6) Matthew Stackhouse is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario. His research expertise includes quantitative methods, longitudinal data analysis, data reduction techniques, health inequality, and behaviour and lifestyle research. He is currently working in collaboration with researchers from the University of Western Ontario and Dalhousie University on the FOCI Work Package Perceptions of Climate Change and Social Futures. Using survey data from this project, he is lead author on a project titled “Perceptions of Local Environment Change and Ecological Habitus” (currently under revisions with Environmental Sociology ) and is lead author on a new study exploring perceptions of local environment change and ecologically supportive behaviours.

INTEGRATION Supporting integration and knowledge mobilization between stakeholders Although each WP identifies links with other WPs, four additional projects are working to strengthen, consolidate and optimize FOCI integration. Each of these integration work package (IWP) projects are undertaking activities to coordinate elements of FOCI WPs, ensuring integration of overarching FOCI objectives and research questions into WP research designs, and to coordinate and synthesize knowledge mobilization outputs identifying infrastructure designs that can enhance the capacity of ocean industries and coastal communities to safely, sustainably, and inclusively navigate climate, ocean and social-ecological change. FORESIGHTING SUSTAINABLE COASTAL COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURES (IWP1) LEVERAGING EXISTING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE FOR FOCI OUTREACH & DISSEMINATION (IWP2) SUSTAINABLE COASTAL ATLANTIC CANADA DIALOGUES (IWP3) ARTISTIC INFRASTRUCTURE FOR NAVIGATING OCEAN AND COASTAL COMMUNITY CHANGE (IWP4)

Memorial University Bruna Souza de Brito Research Assistant (WP7) More to come.