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Rémy Rochette Co-investigator (WP5) Dr. Rochette is a Full Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Applied Science and Engineering at the University of New Brunswick, and a recent recipient of a UNB University Research Scholar award (2016). His area of expertise is the population and evolutionary ecology of coastal marine invertebrates, and he has spent much of the last ten years applying this expertise to the fisheries ecology of American lobster. He has demonstrated excellent leadership in large collaborative NSERC-funded research projects with government scientists and the fishing industry

Grenfell Campus, Memorial University Julia Fracassi Master's Student (IWP1) Julia Fracassi is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Environmental Policy at Memorial University. Hailing from Toronto, she completed her undergraduate degree in Communications, as well as Environment and Urban Sustainability at Ryerson University. While volunteering for marine conservation NGOs abroad, she was profoundly moved by how combining community input and science-based evidence could influence local laws and the creation of marine protected areas. Her current work at Memorial University combines community-engaged research and knowledge mobilization to take a look at how climate change affects coastal communities who rely on sea ice as infrastructure. Despite living in a landlocked city her whole life, her experiences as a scuba diver have fueled her passion for marine conservation and policy. When she’s not underwater looking at coral, Julia loves camping, snowboarding, and exploring all the amazing, diverse natural environments Canada has to offer.

Nicolas Lynch Co-investigator (WP9) Dr. Nicholas Lynch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. His expertise is in urban heritage development, cultural planning, sustainability policy and, the adaptive re-use of historic properties. Prior to joining Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Dr. Lynch was a post-doctoral research associate at the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University, UK.

Memorial University Marie Louise Aastrup Postdoctoral Fellow (WP7) Marie Louise Aastrup is a postdoctoral fellow with the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) at the Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University. She joined FOCI OFI (WP7 - Building resilient coastal communities through social and community enterprise) in July 2022. Marie Louise holds a PhD in Geography from Memorial University (2021). Trained as a cultural and environmental geographer, Marie Louise has conducted research on perceptions of nature conservation, sustainable tourism, and northern housing and homelessness. Her postdoctoral research explores the role of place-based social enterprises in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Julia Christensen Co-investigator (WP9) Dr. Julia Christensen is a Canada Research Chair in Northern Governance and Public Policy and an Assistant Professor in Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She has over 15 years’ professional experience working in the Canadian and circumpolar Norths, where her works addresses housing insecurity, homelessness, social determinants of health, and community-led housing planning. Dr. Christensen currently leads several interdisciplinary, university-community and pan-Northern research collaborations in the areas of community-led housing policy and provision, supportive and transitional housing, northern homelessness and social programming and services. She regularly partners with municipal, territorial and Indigenous governments as well as NGOs. She is also active engaged in the development of research storytelling through creative and arts-based methods of data collection, analysis and knowledge mobilization. Finally, Dr. Christensen is the author or co-editor of three books, 17 peer-reviewed journal articles, 6 book chapters, several conference papers and policy reports, and a range of research storytelling products. She co-leads with Drs. Pottie-Sherman and Lynch the Adaptive Cities & Engagement (ACE) Space, a research lab promoting social justice and inclusivity in small cities.

Memorial University Ario Seto Postdoctoral Fellow (WP7) Ario Seto is a post-doctoral researcher at Memorial University’s Faculty of Business Administration and with the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI). An anthropologist, his work is also interdisciplinary with current research interests in value creation and community-based innovation, social enterprise and emerging public participation, cultural reproduction, marketization of well-being, and civic wealth creation. He has conducted field research in Indonesia, Germany, and Canada, as well as among several underground online groups and a multi-sited ethnographic research project on mediatised populism. Dr. Seto joined the FOCI Team in 2020 and is currently conducting research in Newfoundland and Labrador with FOCI WP7 - Building Resilient Coastal Communities through Social and Community Enterprise with a focus on community-based enterprises and their role in providing services to improve rural and coastal communities’ livability. His recent co-edited volume, Revitalizing PLACE through Social Enterprise, explores how social enterprise strengthens local economic activities to pursue more resilient and vibrant communities.

Memorial University Bryhanna Greenough Research Assistant (WP9) Bryhanna returned to university in 2019 with the intention of upgrading her skills with an MBA – and then discovered MUN’s Geography Department (and reaffirmed her love of the Humanities). She’s currently enrolled in the Urban and Regional Public Policy Certificate program. Bryhanna returned to university in 2019 with the intention of upgrading her skills with an MBA – and then discovered MUN’s Geography Department (and reaffirmed her love of the Humanities). She’s currently enrolled in the Urban and Regional Public Policy Certificate program.

University of Trieste / Memorial University Giovanni Rognoni Visiting Doctoral Student (WP1) Giovanni Rognoni is a Ph.D. student in Engineering at the University of Trieste, Italy. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the University of Trieste, with a thesis on the vibration assessment on a research catamaran developed in conjunction with Klaipeda University. He spent a period abroad at Strathclyde University in Glasgow. After graduation, he worked as a research assistant at the Ship Noise and Vibration Laboratory, participating in different projects. His research interests include vibration and noise prevention in marine structures, assessment of airborne and underwater radiated noise from ships, and new marine technologies. Currently, he is a visiting Ph.D. student at Memorial University, working at the Autonomous Ocean Systems Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Lorenzo Moro. His research project focuses on designing an acoustic metamaterial integrated onboard ships to reduce underwater radiated noise generated by internal machinery. The Italian university ministry selected and approved the research as a green thematic Ph.D. in the context of the National Operative Program 2014-2020, funded by the European Social Fund REACT-EU. The aim is to mitigate the ship's environmental footprint making a further step towards ocean preservation and conservation of underwater ecosystems.

Max Liboiron Lead (WP4) Max Liboiron is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Memorial University. A leader in interdisciplinary research, Liboiron’s community-based environmental monitoring projects have been funded by Northern and Indian Affairs (Northern Contaminants Program), SSHRC, MEOPAR, and ArcticNet, among others. Liboiron writes in both social and natural science forums as well as inventing scientific hardware and protocols for both plastic pollution monitoring and humble lab cultures. Liboiron has been an expert witness for the House of Commons and has worked with the Multi-Materials Stewardship Board (MMSB), 5 Gyres Institute, the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP), and the Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) as an expert on plastic pollution.

BUILDING RESILIENT COASTAL COMMUNITIES THROUGH SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE (WP7) FOCI’s Work Package on ‘Building Resilient Coastal Communities through Social and Community Enterprise’ examines challenges and opportunities of regenerating and enhancing the resilience of remote and rural coastal communities in the face of climate, ocean and social-ecological change through social enterprises. Social enterprises are organizational infrastructures that draw on commercial activities to address social and environmental goals. This Work Package draws on a new heuristic model, called PLACE : P romote community leaders, Li nk divergent perspectives, A mplify local capacities and assests, C onvey compelling stories, and E ngage both/and thinking . Building on a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant that examined the Shorefast Foundation, a charitable organization that operates and supports social businesses on Fogo Island, the PLACE Model emphasizes the power of place-based social enterprises for contributing to more inclusive, economically diverse and culturally resilient coastal communities and infrastructure. MEET THE TEAM Natalie Slawinski Lead Mark Stoddart Co-Investigator Thomas Cooper Co-Investigator Kelly Vodden Co-Investigator Wendy Smith Co-Investigator Blair Winsor Co-Investigator Alex Stewart Co-Investigator HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL (HQP) Marie Louise Aastrup Postdoctoral Fellow 2022-23 Sarah Langer-Smith Research Assistant 2020-22 Ario Seto Postdoctoral Fellow 2020-24 Jennifer Nicole Brenton Doctoral Candidate Alumni Nancy Leung Research Assistant 2024 Bruna Souza de Brito Research Assistant 2022-23 Jennifer Charles Research Assistant 2022 Brennan Lowery Postdoctoral Fellow 2020-21 Ismael Golmohammadi Postdoctoral Fellow 2024-25 (Position Complete) Pedram Pouragasari Doctoral Student 2021-22 OUR PARTNERS

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Alex Stewart Co-investigator (WP7) Co-investigator Alex Stewart has experience with ethnographic methods (e.g., Stewart,1998, The Ethnographer’s Method, Sage Publications) and ethnographic research (e.g., Stewart, 1989, Team Entrepreneurship, Sage Publications, 1989). He also has extensive experience applying social anthropological theory and ethnographic findings (e.g., Stewart, 2015, Academy of Management Perspectives and Stewart, 1990, Organization Science). With PI Natalie Slawinski, he participated in the “Telling a New Rural Story: Mobilizing Assets for Vibrant Communities” conference in Norris Point, NL, and presented a photographic interpretation of the PLACE model. ( https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/pov-mallary-mcgrath-telling-new-storyvibrant- communities-1.5155413 shows both Slawinski and Stewart in the third photo.) Within the last 12 months, he has made 18 photo-ethnographic visits to rural Newfoundland. He has worked recurrently with nine community organizations on the Bonavista Peninsula. This fieldwork is in the territory of the Discovery Aspiring Geopark (DAG), and he has provided 156 photographs of sites requested by the DAG effort. In conjunction with community leaders, artists, and crafts people, he is working to develop interactive ways for community members to express their visions of the environment (physical, social, cultural, and historical) and the ways people create value based on ties to this environment.