Memorial University Nancy Leung Research Assistant (WP7) Nancy is pursuing a Master of Business Administration at Memorial University of Newfoundland. As a full-time student, she has been an active member of the Centre of Social Enterprise and has successfully started a social enterprise that promotes eco-wedding culture in the Newfoundland and Labrador province. She has internship experience at a social enterprise that encourages local, social, and green consumer choices. Before moving to Canada, Nancy completed a Bachelor of Economics and Finance at the University of Hong Kong. Nancy is a project manager with over five years of experience in the banking industry. Nancy focused on digital transformation and led multiple innovative projects from ideation to implementation. She is a certified PMP and is proficient in agile adoption in project management. She enjoys bringing change to the community and improving people’s lives through collaboration. Nancy is excited to get onboard and contribute her strengths to FOCI.

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

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.

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).

IMPROVING SAFETY AND REDUCING THE ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT OF MARINE VEHICLES BY DESIGN AND OPERATION (WP1) Research within Safety Work Package 1, 'Improving Safety and Reducing the Environmental Footprint of Marine Vehicles by Design and Operation', relates to the effectiveness of safety interventions in maritime industries – a field that integrates knowledge from organizational safety research (safety management systems and organizational safety behavior), safety engineering (safety intervention techniques) and marine policy (legal safety interventions requirements). Methodologically, it combines hazard exposure assessment work with engineering design approaches and quantitative and qualitative social science methods. MEET THE TEAM Lorenzo Moro Lead Shameem Islam Co-Investigator Desai Shan Co-Investigator Aldo Chircop Collaborator David Molyneux Co-Investigator Dan Walker Co-Investigator Kimberley Cullen Co-Investigator Heather Peng Co-Investigator Floris Goerlandt Co-Investigator Wei Qiu Co-Investigator HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL (HQP) Yousra Abdelhady Master's Student Current Jacopo Fragasso Postdoctoral Fellow Current Alexandria Major Research Assistant 2024-25 Giovanni Rognoni Visiting Doctoral Candidate 2023 Shahrokh Bairami-Khankandi Master's Student Alumni Fatima Hodroj Master's Student Alumni Sarah McGuire Master's Student Current Paige Bodnar Co-op Student 2024 Khaled Helal Doctoral Candidate Alumni Muhammad Sabah Ud Din Ersum Master's Student Alumni Emre Cilkaya Doctoral Candidate 2021-24 Md Saiful Islam Doctoral Candidate Current Om Prakash Yadav Master's Student Alumni OUR PARTNERS