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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).

David Molyneux Co-investigator (WP1, WP3) Dr. David Molyneux is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering at Memorial University and Director of the Ocean Engineering Research Centre. He had a long career in private and public sector marine research organizations before joining Memorial in 2015. His research specialized in several aspects of ship stability (static and dynamic), ship safety and ship performance, including ship performance in ice. Many of these research projects included a combination of numerical simulation, model experiments or full-scale trials. He has been an active member of organizing committees for several conferences, including OMAE (2015 to 2021), Arctic Technology Conference (2012 to 2018) and AUV 2020.

Memorial University Sarah McGuire Master's Student (WP1) More to come.

GOVERNANCE FOCI’s governance framework has been designed to coordinate and integrate the project’s activities and support FOCI’s researchers and partners in their research. FOCI CORE FOCI’s Core Unit holds primary responsibility for leading planning of project implementation, financial management, monitoring project progress, and evaluation. It works closely with the Ocean Frontier Institute offices and other administrative departments at Memorial University and Dalhousie University to manage and implement project activities and ensure compliance with funding guidelines. The Core Unit is also responsible for coordinating reporting, overseeing data management, as well as supporting and facilitating communications and outreach within the FOCI Consortium, with project stakeholders and the wider public. FOCI’s Core Unit is composed of: Paul Foley, FOCI Co-Principal Investigator Lorenzo Moro, FOCI Co-Principal Investigator MacKenzie Young, Project Manager Sheridan Thompson, Knowledge Mobilization Coordinator PROGRAM COMMITTEE The FOCI Program Committee is comprised of the project work package leaders and is co-chaired by FOCI’s co-principal investigators. The committee provides a forum to review progress towards overall program objectives and milestones, discuss challenges, consult on program adjustments, and develop strategies to enhance integration, engagement and research dissemination. Program Committee Members Paul Foley (Co-Chair), Memorial University, School of Science and the Environment, Environmental Policy Institute, Grenfell Campus Lorenzo Moro (Co-Chair), Memorial University, Department of Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering Robert Brown, Memorial University, Marine Institute Kim Cullen, Memorial University, School of Human Kinetics and Recreation Joel Finnis, Memorial University, Department of Geography Karen Foster, Dalhousie University, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology Max Liboiron, Memorial University, Department of Geography Barbara Neis, Memorial University, Department of Sociology Nicole Power, Memorial University, Department of Sociology Howard Ramos, Western University, Department of Sociology Natalie Slawinski, University of Victoria, Gustavson School of Business Robert Stephenson, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and University of New Brunswick Mark Stoddart, Memorial University, Department of Sociology ADVISORY COMMITTEE The FOCI Advisory Committee brings together diverse experiences and perspectives from senior researchers in different disciplines and external stakeholders. The committee’s role is to monitor FOCI’s progress towards overall objectives and provide guidance to strengthen FOCI research, partnerships, engagement, EDI, knowledge mobilization, and research impacts. Recommendations from the Advisory Committee are shared with the FOCI Core Unit and Program Committee. Advisory Committee Members Barbara Neis (Chair), Memorial University Brian Veitch, Memorial University Robert Stephenson, Fisheries and Oceans Canada & University of New Brunswick Robert Mellin, McGill University Philip Strong, Government of Newfoundland, Disability Policy Office

Grenfell Campus, Memorial University Ajith Raj Doctoral Candidate (IWP1) Ajith Raj is a graduate student in the Transdisciplinary Sustainability program at the Grenfell campus of the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Ajith is part of the FOCI (Future Ocean and Coastal Infrastructures) Integrated Work Package-1 which is about the foresighting future ocean infrastructure. Before joining FOCI, Ajith lived in the western Indian islands called Lakshadweep and worked with the pole and line fisher community to develop a co-management system for the fisheries on the islands. His research focuses on the political economy of the blue economy, foresighting the future of sustainable ocean infrastructure for island communities and fisheries resource management. Ajith completed a Master’s in Development with a sustainability specialization and worked for a Fisheries conservation NGO in India.

Joe Daraio Co-investigator (WP2) Dr. Joe Daraio is an associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He has research experience in ecology, environmental hydraulics, and hydrology, and his primary research interests are in the integration of natural and built environment towards climate change adaptation and resilient design of civil infrastructure. His recent work has focused potential climate change impacts on storm water system design parameters, including peak flows, at local scales, and on development of relatively simple methods for design engineers to incorporate climate change impacts on flow frequencies using flow duration curves. He is principal investigator on a project funded by Natural Resources Canada working with the provincial government on Building Climate Resilience (BCR) to train professional engineers and planners to incorporate climate change into design and planning of infrastructure. This work provides a means to directly apply his research on climate change impacts into practice, and will identify important knowledge gaps for design of storm water infrastructure under climate change. The current proposal will expand on this ongoing work though the direct inclusion of coastal aspects of infrastructure, and by reaching beyond professionals directly to stakeholders and members of the public who have an important part to play in developing resilient and sustainable coastal communities. Dr. Daraio will co-lead with Finnis on WP2.2 (Utility of Climate Guidance)

Grenfell Campus, Memorial University Natasha Olekshy Research Assistant (Core/IWP1) To learn more about Tasha Olekshy – Environmental Policy Institute (grenfell-epi.com)

Barbara Neis Lead (IWP4), Co-investigator (WP2, WP5, IWP2), Advisory Chair Professor Barbara Neis is a John Lewis Paton Distinguished University Professor, Department of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. She is a member of the Order of Canada (C.M.), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (F.R.S.C.), corecipient of the Vanier Institute of the Family’s Mirabelli-Glossop Award for Distinguished Contribution, member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Council of Canadian Academies and a former Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation. She co-founded and co-directed Memorial’s SafetyNet Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Research over much of the period from 2001 to 2019. She is a former member of the Ocean Frontier Institute research management committee and co-leads the work package on aquaculture OHS within Module M. Over her career, a central focus of Professor Neis’ research has been the relationship between work, community and larger-scale societal and environmental change with a particular focus on rural and remote, resource dependent coastal communities. She has extensive experience in designing, securing funding for and completing major interdisciplinary programs of research using a community-engaged, partnered framework. Many of her research programs have focused on diverse aspects of marine and coastal communities ranging from sustainability, through governance, to local knowledge and science, health and safety, gender and fisheries and work-related mobility.

Memorial University Kaitlyn Hawkins Research Assistant (WP4) More to come.

Memorial University Khaled Helal Doctoral Candidate (WP1) I am currently a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Memorial University, having graduated in Egypt in 2012 as a Mechatronics Engineer working on mobile robotics. I am currently contributing to Work Package 1 at the FOCI. My research focuses on autonomous underwater gliders for passive acoustic survey missions. I investigate their potential as an alternative to stationary passive acoustic observers for monitoring ocean ambient noise, marine life, and anthropogenic noise. In addition, I am engaged in the study of the relationship between vessel noise signatures and their structure and air-borne noise. These studies will contribute to the field of designing more quiet vessels.