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Memorial University Md Saiful Islam Doctoral Candidate (WP1) Mr. Md Saiful Islam is currently working as a Ph. D. student in the Marine Noise and Vibration Laboratory (MNVL) at MUN since Winter 2022. His research primarily focuses on the occupational health and safety of seafarers resulting from onboard noise and vibrations. He will also work on the ship's radiated underwater noise footprint in real-time operating conditions. He joined MUN under the supervision of Dr. Lorenzo Moro in Fall 2019 to pursue his M. Eng. In his Master's, he developed a procedure to characterize an atmospheric towing tank for acoustic measurements. He extended the study to model testing of a ship to estimate underwater radiated noise from non-cavitating propellers. He did Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology (RUET), Bangladesh. Before joining MNVL, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at RUET. He has published thirteen journal articles and given talks at thirteen national/international conferences. He has been awarded the University Medal for Excellence and FEAS Dean’s Award for Excellence.

SUSTAINABILITY Ensuring infrastructure designs contribute to full spectrum sustainability for coastal communities In a context of rapid climate, ocean, and social-ecological change, a key challenge is to learn from different coastal communities, from groups of rights holders and stakeholders, from citizens, and to support the development of their capacity in strengthening and designing infrastructures for navigating through change. Sustainability Research Work Packages are based on principles of co-producing knowledge, with aims to learn from and support peoples of Atlantic Canada in creating sustainable coastal infrastructures. These WPs are working with Indigenous groups, industry organizations, and governance actors to strengthen, develop, and design coastal community infrastructure that can better navigate future change. FIRST NATIONS DATA SOVEREIGNTY AND INFRASTRUCTURES FOR ATLANTIC AAROMS (WP4) BUILDING COLLABORATIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE IN ATLANTIC CANADA’S LOBSTER FISHERIES (WP5) PERCEPTIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND SOCIAL FUTURES (WP6)

Photo by Ritche Perez THE PROJECT What is FOCI? FOCI is a collaborative, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research project that was formally created in 2020 with primary funding support the Ocean Frontier Institute, through an award from the tri-council Canada First Research Excellence Fund. Who are we? FOCI includes more than 65 researchers and collaborators from 34 engineering, natural science, social science, and artistic disciplines, 18 institutions, and 80 local, regional, national, and international partners from Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, industry, government, and civil society. The project will also train and engage at least 75 students, postdoctoral fellows, research assistants and community researchers. What are we doing and why? Rethinking infrastructures to include not only physical/built infrastructures, but also ecological infrastructures, and societal infrastructures. Executing transdisciplinary research and working with partners to creatively design, regenerate and adapt ocean and coastal industry/community infrastructures in preparation for future environmental and social change. Focusing on co-designing infrastructures with the potential to support sustainability, safety and inclusion. How are we doing it? FOCI researchers and partners are achieving its objectives by carrying out a rich program of research, training, and engagement organized into nine Work Packages (WPs), each clustered under one of the three core themes of sustainability, safety, and inclusion. Four additional integration work packages (IWPs) play a key role in integrating findings across work packages and supporting wider and deeper public engagement. Sustainability Infrastructure designs that contribute to full spectrum sustainability for coastal communities Safety Designing safer maritime and coastal infrastructures for Atlantic Canada Inclusion Ensuring infrastructure designs that support inclusion, social justice, and equity Integration Supporting integration and knowledge mobilization between stakeholders

MEET THE TEAM The Core Team Research Work Package Leads Co-Investigators and Collaborators Highly Qualified Personnel

Alli Johnston Collaborator (IWP4) Alli Johnston is a visual artist based in Newfoundland and Labrador. She was born and raised in southern Ontario and moved to Corner Brook in 2001. She now splits her time between her homes in Corner Brook, and on Fogo Island and Exploits Island. Alli’s multi-disciplinary art practice focuses on her sense of place and her connection to nature. Her first visual art form was film photography and she began painting with watercolour in 2006. In recent years, Alli has been working to expand her art practice and has taken credit courses in textile art, printmaking, and drawing in the Visual Arts program at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University. Alli currently contributes to FOCI’s work as PULP Gallery’s Curator in Residence and Guest Programmer.

Memorial University Charlotte Florian Project Technician (WP4) More to come.

Sustainability Safety Inclusion Integration PUBLICATIONS Albertsen, R., Ansari, S., Langley, A., Heucher, K, Krautzberger, M., Reinecke, P., Slawinski, N., & Vaara, E. (2024). Strategizing Together for a Better World: Institutional, Paradox and Practice Theories in Conversation. Journal of Management Inquiry , 33(2): 115-130. https://doi.org/10.1177/10564926231210238 Brenton, J., & Slawinski, N. (2023). Collaborating for community regeneration: Facilitating partnerships in, through, and for place. Journal of Business Ethics , 184, 815–834. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05365-5 Finnis, J., & Reid-Musson, E. (2022). Managing weather & fishing safety: Marine meteorology and fishing decision-making from a governance and safety perspective. Marine Policy , 142, 105120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105120 Foley, P., Moro, L., Neis, B., Stephenson, R., Mellin, R., Singh, G., Hall, P., Kelly, R., & Kulsum, U. (2024). Expanding infrastructure ontologies: Integrative and critical insights for coastal studies and governance. Coastal Studies & Society , 3(4), 203-226. https://doi.org/10.1177/26349817241282440 Helal, K.M., Fragasso, J. & Moro, L. (2024). Effectiveness of ocean gliders in monitoring ocean acoustics and anthropogenic noise from ships: A systematic review. Ocean Engineering, 295:116993. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.116993 Helal, K.M., Fragasso, J. & Moro, L. (2024). Underwater noise characterization of a typical fishing vessel from Atlantic Canada. Ocean Engineering , 299:117310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.117310 Helal, K.M., von Oppeln-Bronikowski, N. & Moro, L. (2024). Advancing glider-based measurements and applications of underwater-radiated ship noise. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 156, 2467-2484. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0032357 Helal, K.M., & Moro, L. (2022). Assessment of the underwater noise levels from a fishing vessel using passive acoustic monitoring and structure hull vibration. Canadian Acoustics - Acoustique Canadienne, 50:3. 110-111, https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/3876 Jahanbakhsh, A., Fragasso, J., Moro, L., & (Shameem) Islam, M. (2025). Finite Element model updating of a scale model ship using experimental modal analysis and response surface methodology. Journal of Marine Science and Applications . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11804-025-00711-7 Kelly, R., Foley, P., Stephenson, R. L., Hobday, A.J., Pecl, G.T., Boschetti, F., Cvitanovic, C., Fleming, A., Fulton, E.A., Nash, K.L., Neis, B., Singh, G., & van Putten, E.I. (2022). Foresighting future oceans: Considerations and opportunities. Marine Policy , 140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105021 Knott, C., Fusco, L. M., Daly, J., Andrews, E., & Singh, G.G. (2024). Equity zombies in Canada’s blue economy: a critical feminist analysis for equitable policy implementation. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11, 1277581. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1277581 Knott, C., Wiber, M. G., & Mather, C. (2024). Aquaculture’s offshore frontier: learning from the Canadian courts on ocean grabbing, ocean privatization, and property as process. Maritime Studies, 23(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-023-00348-8 Knott, C. & Gustavsson M. (2022). Introduction to fishy feminisms: feminist analysis of fishery places. Gender, Place & Culture , 29:12, 1669-1676. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2135492 Lynch, N., & Greenough, B. (2024). After the light: the reuse and replica of Canada’s historic lighthouses. International Journal of Heritage Studies , 30(10), 1156-1172. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2024.2378488 McGill, A., Salehi, V., McCloskey, R., Smith, D., & Veitch, B. (2024). Mapping the way: functional modelling for community-based integrated care for older people. Research Policy and Systems , 22(103). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-024-01196-6 M cGill, A., McCloskey, R., Smith, D., & Veitch, B. (2023). Establishing trustworthiness in health care process modelling: A practical guide to quality enhancement in studies using the Functional Resonance Analysis Method. Qualitative Methods , 22. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231183616 McGill, A., Smith, D., McCloskey, R., Morris, P., Goudreau, A., & Veitch, B. (2022). The Functional Resonance Analysis Method as a healthcare research methodology: a scoping review. JBI Evidence Synthesis , 20(4),1074-1097. http://doi: 10.11124/JBIES-21-00099 McGill, A., Smith, D., McCloskey, R., Morris, P., Goudreau, A., & Veitch, B. (2020). The Functional Resonance Analysis Method as a healthcare research methodology: a scoping review protocol. JBI Evidence Synthesis, 19(3), 734-740. https://doi.org/10.11124/JBIES-20-00237 Pottie-Sherman, Y., Christensen, J., Foroutan, M., & Zhou, S. (2024). Navigating the housing crisis: A comparison of international students and other newcomers in a mid-sized Canadian city. Canadian Geographies , 68(1), 44-56. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12869 Rahman, S., Nguyen, M., & Slawinski, N. (2024). Regenerating Place: Highlighting the role of ecological knowledge. Organization & Environment , 37(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/14761270241274590 Reid-Musson, E., Neis, B., & Finnis, J. (2022). Fishing safety and timed openings in Atlantic Canada’s lobster fisheries: the mediating role of local management syste ms. Maritime Studies , 21, 223 – 234. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-021-00256-9 Shan, D. (2022). Enforcement of fishing Occupational Health and Safety standards: Challenges in Atlantic Canada. Marine Policy , 145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105282 Slawinski, N., Brito, B., Brenton, J., Smith, W. K. (2024). Reflections on deep academic-practitioner partnering for generative societal impact. Strategic Organization, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/14761270241274590 Slawinski, N., Brito, B., Brenton, J., & Smith, W. K. (2023). Rapid problem formulating for Societal Impact: Lessons from a decade-long research practice partnership. Journal of Business Venturing Insights,19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2023.e00390 Stackhouse, M., Ramos, H., Foster, K. & Stoddart, M.C.J. (2023). Perceptions of local environment change and ecological habitus. Environmental Sociology , 9(4): 445-462. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2023.2234644 Stephenson, R.L. & A.J. Hobday. (2024). Blueprint for Blue Economy implementation. Marine Policy, 163 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106129 Stoddart, M.C.J., Foster, K., Ramos H., & Ylä-Anttila, T. (2023) [published online 2021]. Competing Crises? Media Coverage and Framing Climate Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Environmental Communication, 17(3): 276-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2021.1969978 Stoddart, M.C.J., & Yang, Y. (2023). What are the roles of regional and local climate governance discourse and actors? Mediated climate change policy networks in Atlantic Canada. Review of Policy Research , 40(6): 1144-1168. https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12510 Wiber, M. G., Mather, C., Knott, C., & López Gómez, M.A. (2021). Regulating the blue economy? Challenges to an effective Canadian aquaculture act. Marine Policy, 131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104700 Yadav, O. P., Shan, D., Sarkar, A., & Moro, L. (2023). Occupational noise exposure at sea: A socio-legal study on fish harvesters’ perceptions in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Frontiers in Public Health , 11, 1092350. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1092350 Publications emerging from research collaboration and linkages with other projects Daly, J., Knott, C., Singh, G., & Koegh, P. (2021). Changing climates in a blue economy: Assessing the climate-responsiveness of Canadian fisheries and oceans policy. Marine Policy, 131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104623 Fusco, L., Knott, C., Cisneros-Montemayor, A., Singh, G., & Spalding, A. (2022). Blueing business as usual: Blue economies, oil, and climate justice. Political Geography, 98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102670 Knott, C. & Mather, C. (2021). Ocean frontiers and aquaculture in Canada. Journal of Agrarian Change , 21(4), 796 – 815. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12441 Knott, C., Power, N., Neis, B. & Frangoudes, K. (2021). North Atlantic fishy feminists and the more-than-human approach: a conversation. Gender, Place & Culture , 29(12), 1767 – 1787. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2021.1997935 Martin, S., Mather, C., Knott, C., & Bavington, D. (2021). ‘Landing’ salmon aquaculture: Ecologies, infrastructures and the promise of sustainability, Geoforum , 123, 47 - 55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.04.025 Silver, A., Finnis, J., Behlendorf, B., & Reid-Musson, E. (2022). End-user satisfaction with Hurricane Dorian information in Atlantic Canada. Meteorological Applications , 29(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/met.2078 Stephenson, R.L., Hobday A.J., Allison E.H., Armitage, D., Brooks, K., Bundy, A., Cvitanovic, C., Dickey-Collas, M., Grilli, N.M., Gomez, C., Jarre, A., Kaikkonen, L., Kelly, R., López, R., Muhl, E-K, Pennino, M.G., Tam, J.C., van Putten. (2021). The Quilt of Sustainable Ocean Governance: Patterns for Practitioners. Frontiers in Marine Science , 8:630547. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.630547

LET'S TALK Future Ocean and Coastal Infrastructures FOCI WEBINAR WORKSHOP SERIES The Let's Talk Infrastructures webinar workshop series aims to enhance the profile, reach and impact of FOCI research through knowledge mobilization presentations, discussion and activities. Each workshop will be led by FOCI researchers. They will reflect on key findings in their research related to project objectives and address how their research can enhance efforts to better understand, design, develop and manage diverse infrastructures in ways that are more sustainable, safe and inclusive for coastal communities and ocean industries challenged by ocean, climate and social change. The series will inform and advance efforts to document, synthesize and communicate lessons learned from FOCI as a whole. Event details Date & Time: November 2022 - March 2025 Location: Online or Hybrid HQP Caucus Workshop: Autumn, 2024 Title Cultural Awareness, Safety, Sensitivity, Competence and Humility in Research Presenters: Dr. Umme Kulsum & Sheridan Thompson Date & Time: Friday, October 25th , 2024 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm NT Location: Webex LET'S TALK Infrastructures FOCI Webinar Workshop 8 Title Understanding Multilevel Climate Governance in Atlantic Canada: A Social Network Approach Presenters: Dr. Mark Stoddart Host/moderator: Sheridan Thompson Date & Time: Friday, February 23rd, 2024 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm NT Location: Webex LET'S TALK Infrastructures FOCI Webinar Workshop 7 Title WP7 BOOK LAUNCH! Revitalizing PLACE through Social Enterprise Presenters: Dr. Natalie Slawinski and the authors of Revitalizing PLACE through Social Enterprise Host/moderator: Dr. Natalie Slawinski & Dr. Mark Stoddart Date & Time: Friday, January 26th, 2024 11 am - 12:30 pm NT Location: Zoom LET'S TALK Infrastructures FOCI Webinar Workshop 6 Title Artistic Infrastructure for Navigating Ocean and Coastal Community Change (IWP4) Presenters: Nancy Dahn & Timothy Steeves , Cameron Forbe s , Dave Lane , and Jamie Skidmore Host/moderator: Barbara Neis Date & Time: Monday, October 16th, 2023 12 pm - 1:30 pm NT Location: Webex LET'S TALK Infrastructures FOCI Webinar Workshop 5 Title HQP Seminar: Alternative Ways of Presenting Research Presenters: Moses Adjei , Khaled Helal , Fatima Hassan Hodroj , Md Saiful Islam , Sharon King-Campbell , Christine Knott , Umme Kulsum , Cindy Marven , Ali McGill , Rachel McLay , Giovanni Rognoni , Matthew Stackhouse , & Sheridan Thompson Host(s): Cindy Marven and Sheridan Thompson Date & Time: Tuesday, May 30th, 2023 730am PT / 1030 am ET / 1130 pm AT / 12 pm NT Location: Online platform Kumospace LET'S TALK Infrastructures FOCI Webinar Workshop 4 Title Building, Sustaining, and Navigating Community - University Partnerships: Reflections from WP7 Presenters: Natalie Slawinski (Moderator) , Joan Cranston, Pedram Pourasgari , Bruna Brito , Jennifer Brenton , Ario Seto , and Marie Louis Aastrup Host: Sheridan Thompson Date & Time: Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 8am PT / 11 am ET / 12 pm AT / 12:30 pm NT Location: Online with Webex LET'S TALK Infrastructures FOCI Webinar Workshop 3 Title Coastal Risk Communication and Community Resilience: Exchanging Knowledge and Building Connections through Existing Communities of Practice Presenters: Joel Finnis , Cindy Marven , and Shaieree Cottar Host/Moderator: Sheridan Thompson Date & Time: Wednesday, March 15th, 2023 8am PT / 11 am ET / 12 pm AT / 12:30 pm NT Location: Online with Webex LET'S TALK Infrastructures FOCI Webinar Workshop 2 Title Thinking Futures: How Can We Contribute to Improved Ocean and Coastal Infrastructures? Presenter: Robert Stephenson Discussants: Umme Kulsum and Marloes Kraan Host/Moderator: Sheridan Thompson Date & Time: January 18th , 2023 12 - 1:30 pm NT Location: Online with Webex LET'S TALK Infrastructures FOCI Webinar Workshop 1 Title Identifying Human-Built, Environmental and Societal Infrastructures for Ocean Futures Presenter: Paul Foley Panelists: Ajith Raj and Christine Knott Host/Moderator: Sheridan Thompson Date & Time: November 30th , 2022 12 - 1:30 pm NT Location: Hybrid, Zoom/in-person

RESEARCH WORK PACKAGES Building on work done within and outside OFI, FOCI is achieving its objectives by carrying out a rich program of research, training and engagement organized into nine Work Packages (WPs), each clustered under one of the three core themes of safety, sustainability and inclusion. Four additional integration work packages (IWPs) are playing a key role in integrating findings across work packages and support wider and deeper public engagement with this collaborative, full-spectrum infrastructure regeneration/design/adaptation process. This is happening within WPs through partner engagement with the research. Findings from WPs are also informing focused dialogues and the engagement of diverse public and Indigenous groups in the regeneration/design/adaptation of infrastructures through not only the co-design of research but also art, theatre, music, film/video and puppetry. Sustainability Infrastructure designs that contribute to full spectrum sustainability for coastal communities Safety Designing safer maritime and coastal infrastructures for Atlantic Canada Inclusion Ensuring infrastructure designs that support inclusion, social justice, and equity Integration Supporting integration and knowledge mobilization between stakeholders

Memorial University Ophelia Ravencroft Research Assistant (WP9) More to come.

Christine Knott Co-investigator (WP9) Dr. Christine Knott completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship with FOCI WP9 and has started a new position as assistant professor in Women Gender and Sexuality Studies at San Diego State University. Her p ost-doctoral fellowship with the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) in the Department of Geography at Memorial University, addressed Social License and Planning in Coastal Communities. Her research expertise aims to develop a better understanding of the current gendered and racialized labour processes within the aquaculture and seafood processing industries and their dynamics within communities and workplaces. These explorations allow Dr. Knott to investigate the significance of the interactions among resource dependent communities, government policies, global corporate capitalism, ecological and economic mobility regimes, and animal enclosure and commodification. Dr. Knott FOCI Work Package 9, Inclusion, social justice and equity in urban and rural coastal communities resulted in the development of a website and podcast series Fishy Feminist; Imagining Inclusive, Just & Equitable Fish-Human Relations - https://www.fishyfeminist.com/ . Christine continues in role of co-investigator for FOCI WP9.

Paul Foley Lead (WP5), Co-Lead (IWP1) Paul Foley is an Associate Professor at the Environmental Policy Institute in the School of Science and the Environment at Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Grenfell Campus, which is situated in traditional Mi’kmaw territory in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. He received a PhD in Political Science from York University in Toronto in 2012 after receiving an MA in International Development from Dalhousie University and a BA (Honours) in History from Memorial University. His research is primarily situated in critical social science fields of political economy and political ecology and developed through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaborations, with much of his work focusing on policies and governance for oceans, fisheries, seafood and coastal communities. His work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) through the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI).