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Memorial University Cindy Marven Community of Practice Engagement Coordinator (IWP2) Cindy holds a MSc (Geography) from the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, where her research interests centred around marine risk and spatial statistical analysis to support search and rescue planning. Her interest in risk broadened to include risk communication and since 2017, she has coordinated the Coast and Ocean Risk Communication Community of Practice ( CORC CoP ), initiated by MEOPAR (the Marine Environmental Observation Prediction and Response) Network, that focuses on bringing practitioners and researchers together from academia, government, industry, and the private sector to address the challenges of communicating risks of coastal and marine hazards, many of which are exacerbated by climate change.

Memorial University Jennifer Charles Research Assistant (WP7) More to come.

Memorial University Emre Cilkaya Doctoral Student (WP1)

Sustainability Safety Inclusion Integration REPORTS & BRIEFS Aastrup, M.L., Seto, A., & Slawinski, N. (2022). Place-Based Solutions in a Challenged World: The Role of Social Enterprises and Communities . Report from 2022 PLACE Dialogues, Norris Point, NL, October 13-15, 2022. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Funke, L., Yang, Y. & Stoddart, M.C.J. (2023). Regional Climate Policy Networks and Media Discourse: Multilevel Climate Governance and Climate Justice in Atlantic Canada. https://www.academia.edu/107926887/Regional_Climate_Policy_Networks_and_Media_Discourse_Multilevel_Climate_Governance_and_Climate_Justice_in_Atlantic_Canada?uc-sb-sw=29602952 Hefferon, F., Stoddart, M.C.J., Slawinski, N., Fürst, B., Potvin, C. & Howard, R. (2021). Achieving Success in Collaborative Research: Insights and Best Practices. Summary report of FOCI IWP3 Sustainable Coastal Atlantic Canada Dialogues Sessions, October 29-30, 2020. Report prepared for Future Ocean and Coastal Infrastructures (FOCI). Hobday, A.J. & Stephenson, R.L. (2024). Integrated Management for Marine Regions, Integrated Ocean Management Update 1 [Fact sheet]. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere and Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada. Hobday, A.J. & Stephenson, R.L. (2024). Integrated Ocean Management in Australia, Integrated Ocean Management Update 2 [Fact sheet]. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere and Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada. Hobday, A.J. & Stephenson, R.L. (2024). Ocean crowding and plan crowding, Integrated Ocean Management Update 3 [Fact sheet]. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere and Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada. Hobday, A.J. & Stephenson, R.L. (2024). Blueprint for Blue Economy Implementation, Integrated Ocean Management Update 4 [Fact sheet]. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere and Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada. Hobday, A.J. & Stephenson, R.L. (2024). Value proposition for Integrated Ocean Management, Integrated Ocean Management Update 5 [ Fact sheet]. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere and Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada. Ibrahim, A. (2020). Vessels of Opportunity Localization and Path Selection Model of A* Search Algorithm for Maritime Emergency Logistics Management. Technical Report Submitted to MUN Co-op in fulfillment of WT3 requirements , Aug. 21, 2020, 68 pages. Knott, C. & López Gómez, M.A. (2022). Community-based sustainable and equitable employment in Aquaculture on the Burin Peninsula . Harris Centre Thriving Regions Grant Final Report, June 12, 2022. Leung, N., Morrissey, G., Rowsell, A., & Slawinski, N. (2024). The PLACE Dialogues: Building Economic Momentum for Resilient Communities . Report from 2024 PLACE Dialogues, Fogo Island, NL, October 24-26, 2024. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Liboiron, M. (2023). Plastic ingestion rates of char and salmon in NunatuKavut : Prepared for NCC. CLEAR, Memorial University: 6 pages. Liboiron, M. (2023). Plastic ingestion rates in Eel and plastic concentrations in surface waters : prepared for MFN. CLEAR, Memorial University: 12 pages. McLay, R., & Ramos, H. (2021). Perceptions of Environmental Change in Atlantic Canada. Future Ocean and Coastal Infrastructures Project: Work Package 6. September 7. https://rfrc.ca/publication/perceptions-environmental-change-atlantic-canada-survey-report Mi'kmaq Confederacy of PEI. (2022). Community Information booklet . 24 pages. Mi'kmaq Confederacy of PEI. (2022). Community Engagement Flyer . 1 page. Leung, N., Morrissey, G., Rowsell, A., & Slawinski, N. (2024). Co-creating Community Entrepreneurship . Report from 2023 PLACE Dialogues, St. Anthony, NL, October 26-28, 2024. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Oyedele O.J., & Stoddart, M.C.J. (2025). Knowledge Translation of FOCI Findings for Uptake into Policy and Practice. 2nd FOCI Sustainable Coastal Atlantic Canada Dialogues Session, November 12, 2024. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Pottie-Sherman, Y., Christensen, J., Foroutan, M. & Zhou, S. (2023). Visual summary: Navigating the housing crisis: a comparison of international students and other newcomers in a mid-sized Canadian city . Ramos, H., & Sobanski, B. (2021). Future Ocean and Coastal Infrastructures Delphi Process Report. Future Ocean and Coastal Infrastructures Project: Work Package 6. July 22. https://rfrc.ca/publication/future-ocean-and-coastal-infrastructures-delphi-process-report Seto, A., Brenton, J., Brito, B., Pourasgari, P., & Slawinski, N. (2021). Reimagining Place in a Post-COVID World: The Role of Social Enterprise for Strengthening Communities . Report from the 2021 PLACE Check-In (Virtual), November 19, 2021. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Seto, A., Cranston, J., Lowery, B., Brito, B.S., & Slawinski, N. (2020). Rural Resilience as Best Practice: Newfoundland and Labrador's Social Enterprises' Reaction to the Covid-19 Pandemic . Report from the 2020 PLACE Dialogues Check-in (Virtual), November 20, 2020. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Stoddart, M.C. J., Foster, K., Ramos, H., & Ylä-Anttila, T. (2020). Research Brief: COVID-19 & Climate Change Media Discourse. https://www.academia.edu/44372018/COVID_19_and_Climate_Change_Media_Discourse_Research_Brief Unama’ki Institute of Natural Resources. (2021). Partnership Tenets. Eskasoni, NS: UNIR. Yadav, O.P., Sarkar, A., Shan, D., Rahman, A., & Moro, L. (2021). Occupational noise exposure and health impacts among fish harvesters: a systematic review. International Maritime Health , 72 (3), pp. 199-205. https://doi.10.5603/IMH.2021.0038

Blair Winsor Co-investigator (WP7) Dr. Blair Winsor is an Associate Professor at Memorial University, whose research efforts focus on entrepreneurship in the province. He joined Memorial’s Faculty of Business Administration in August 2013, having previously taught entrepreneurship, innovation management and small business management at Edinburgh Napier University in the United Kingdom. Blair completed his doctorate at the University of Warwick’s Business School in 2010. He also has a bachelor of arts in political science from Memorial, a bachelor of laws from the University of Ottawa, and an MBA from Italy’s Luigi Bocconi Commercial University. In addition to his academic pursuits, Blair has, over the last 40 years, been an entrepreneur, angel investor, and consultant in the UK, the US, and Canada.

Marine Institute, Memorial University Yang Ji Master's Student (WP3) Yang Ji is a MSc. candidate in Maritime Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Beginning his academic sojourn with degrees in psychology and education from the University of Toronto, a personal passion for ships then guided him to a diploma in naval architecture at the Marine Institute. A pivotal third-year project on expeditionary cruise ship design introduced Yang to the intricacies of human factors and maritime evacuation. This experience, coupled with his intrigue about passenger safety beyond mere ship design, channeled him towards his current Master's endeavor. Now, Yang seeks to model the impact of fixed-wing search and rescue (SAR) aircraft on overall rescue duration. Merging his diverse background with this research, he aims to enhance SAR efficacy and offer insights beneficial for strategic maritime planning and acquisitions.

Martin Day Co-investigator (WP2) Dr. Martin Day is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is trained in social psychology and has interests in understanding people’s attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours. In particular, his research has focused on better understanding how people’s beliefs relate to their behaviours on a variety of societal topics, including the environment, as well as social and economic issues. His research methodology includes conducting surveys of people’s beliefs and attitudes, and creating novel study materials and questionnaires. Dr. Day has expertise on how psychological factors can influence and explain people’s beliefs, and how to accurately assess and evaluate people’s existing knowledge and opinions on applied topics. Dr. Day will serve as co-lead on WP2.2 (Utility of Climate Guidance). His overarching research duties are to provide expertise on how to accurately assess stakeholders’ knowledge, understanding, and attitudes related to climate guidance.

Kelly Vodden Co-investigator (WP7) Dr. Kelly Vodden is Professor (Research) with the Environmental Policy Institute, School of Science and the Environment and Associate Vice-President of Research and Graduate Studies at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland. She has been engaged in community and regional development research, policy and practice in rural communities across Canada for more than twenty-five years and in NL since 2003. She has published and led projects on topics ranging from rural regional governance to climate change adaptation, place-based rural development and innovation, and sustainable rural drinking water systems, and has supervised more than 50 undergraduate, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows on related topics. Dr. Vodden’s scholarship is motivated by a commitment to conduct research and co-create knowledge for the benefit of rural communities and the ecosystems they depend on and are part of. She seeks to undertake research in a way that involves and is accessible to those who will ultimately use and be impacted by the knowledge generated. This includes knowledge dissemination and mobilization activities through avenues such as research reports and policy briefs, websites/blogs, toolkits, and popular media in addition to more traditional scholarly venues. Her work has primarily been conducted as part of interdisciplinary, and even transdisciplinary teams that seek integrate various disciplinary perspectives and forms of knowledge.

Floris Goerlandt Co-investigator (WP1; WP3) Dr. Goerlandt is an assistant professor in the Industrial Engineering Department at Dalhousie University. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Risk Management and Response Optimization for Marine Industries, through which he develops frameworks, models, and case studies for enhancing safety and minimizing environmental impacts of maritime activities. Before joining Dalhousie University, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Marine Technology unit in Aalto University, Finland. He has worked extensively with maritime authorities, industry, and international organizations, mostly in the Baltic Sea area. Topics included shipping safety management, oil spill preparedness and response risk analysis and management, maritime Search and Rescue (SAR) analysis and modeling, and ship routing in ice. His expertise in risk and safety concepts, theories, and methods, combined with his experience with the maritime industry and policy context is instrumental in achieving the objectives of Work Package 1 “Improving safety and environmental footprints of marine vehicles by design and operation” (WP1). In addition to the above, his knowledge of engineering modeling is also central in achieving the objectives of Work Package 3 “Search and Rescue in remote regions” (WP3).

Pam Hall Collaborator (IWP4) To learn more please view www.pamhall.ca and https://encyclopediaoflocalknowledge.com/ .

Natalie Slawiski Lead (WP7), Co-investigator (IWP3) Dr. Natalie Slawinski has significant experience working with community partners on teaching, research, and knowledge dissemination activities relating to social enterprise in Newfoundland and Labrador. For example, PI Slawinski has worked closely on research and outreach activities with Shorefast, a registered charity that runs social enterprises and whose mission is cultural and economic resilience for Fogo Island, since 2016 as part of a SSHRC partnership development grant. In 2018, PI Slawinski co-organized a Community Resilience Workshop on Fogo Island, with her research team in partnership with Shorefast. The Fogo Island Workshop, which became the first of a series of ongoing “PLACE Dialogues”, brought together 40 community champions from across Newfoundland and Labrador to discuss the lessons learned from research on the role of Shorefast’s social enterprises for community development on Fogo Island. Building on the lessons from the research, and the dialogue from the Workshop, our research team developed a PLACE framework of community development. With Research Partner Kimberly Orren, co-founder of Fishing for Success, PI Slawinski has collaborated on several knowledge mobilization initiatives including co-organizing the PLACE Dialogues in Petty Harbour Workshop in October 2019. In addition, PI Slawinski is an academic advisor for the Centre for Social Enterprise (CSE) at Memorial University, and a Research Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation (CCSI) in the UK.

Lorenzo Moro Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Lorenzo Moro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He received a Ph.D., a M.Sc., and a bachelor’s degree in Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture from the University of Trieste, Italy. His research is primarily situated in ship design methods and maritime safety, focusing on noise pollution from ships, noise exposures of seafarers, and ship structural dynamics. He is technical member for Canada in the Technical Committee II.2 Dynamic Response of the 21st International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress, and chair of the Canadian Atlantic Branch of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects. His research has been funded by government and private agencies, including the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) through the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI).