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Amber Silver Co-investigator (IWP2) Dr. Amber Silver is an Assistant Professor for the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the State University of New York at Albany (SUNY-Albany). She received her Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Management from the University of Waterloo. Her primary research interests focus on how individuals and groups make decisions before, during, and after high impact weather. More specifically, she is interested in the roles that public attention, risk perception, and communication play in protective action decision making during extreme events. Her most recent research has focused on the ways that new technologies, including social media, influence how individuals obtain, interpret, and respond to official and unofficial warning information. Dr. Silver has recently joined the communications task force of the High Impact Weather (HIWx) working group of the World Weather Research Programme of the World Meteorological Organization. This ten-year project aims to understand and improve the communication of weather information to different end-users in order to promote appropriate protective actions. With Ron Pelot and Joel Finnis, Dr. Silver is co-lead of the Coast & Ocean Risk Communication Community of Practice (CORC-CoP).

Memorial University Sanaz Labbaf Research Assistant (WP9) More to come.

2020-25 MacKenzie Young Project Manager MacKenzie is based at the St. John’s Campus of Memorial University. Her career in the tertiary education environment spans the management of research and technical assistance projects, international mobility programs, business development, and community engagement. MacKenzie’s work has largely been focused on the development and implementation of projects, consultancies and partnerships in the oceans and education sectors. These initiatives have ranged from short consultancies to multi-year, multi-stakeholder global initiatives, supported by a wide range of funders – including government agencies, foundations, multilateral development banks, and private sector partners. MacKenzie has worked extensively with partners and clients throughout Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Americas, cultivating high-impact collaborations and contributing to the achievement of shared goals through innovative, inclusive approaches.

Nicole Power Lead (WP9) Nicole Power is a Professor in the Department of Sociology, Memorial University. She has been doing feminist research focusing on NL fisheries for 25 years. Her research has examined the gendered and health and safety impacts of industrial, economic and environmental restructuring on workers and young people in fisheries communities, and the labour mobility among young workers in rural and coastal communities. Recently she has turned her attention to human-fish relations, focusing particularly on the political economy of the human-fish relations of wild and aquacultured salmon.

SUSTAINABLE COASTAL ATLANTIC CANADA DIALOGUES (IWP3) FOCI’s Integration Work Package, ‘Sustainable Coastal Atlantic Canada Dialogues,’ leads the development of two FOCI-wide ‘Sustainable Coastal Atlantic Canada Dialogues’ (end of Year 1 and Year 3-4). The goals of the IWP are to promote the interdisciplinary co-construction of knowledge across FOCI Work Package researchers and partners; and to help successfully translate FOCI research findings into policy and practice for sustainability. IWP team members build on prior involvement in Sustainable Canada Dialogues, which is a pan-Canadian network of environmental and social scientists, which is supported by the UNESCO-McGill Research Chair: Dialogues in Sustainability. The SCD translates research into collaboration with policy makers and community leaders to mobilize support for a more sustainable Canada. MEET THE TEAM Mark Stoddart Lead Catherine Potvin Co-Investigator Howard Ramos Co-Investigator Natalie Slawinski Co-Investigator HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL (HQP) Finbar Hefferon Research Assistant 2020 Obasanjo Joseph Oyedele Research Assistant 2024-25 OUR PARTNERS

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.

Anne Graham Co-investigator (IWP4) Dr. Anne Graham is Associate Professor, jointly, in the Departments of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures and Religious Studies at Memorial University. She is a specialist of early modern French theatre and religious theatre of the medieval and early modern periods. She has written numerous scholarly journal articles on early modern theatre and has undertaken the translation of an early modern play: Abraham sacrifiant, by Theodore de Bèze. She received a SSHRC Insight Development Grant to support this translation work and the workshopping of the play with a group of actors and a dramaturge, Dr. Jamie Skidmore, who was a co-applicant on this project. The workshopping took place over several weekends and culminated in a staged reading in February 2018 at a premiere theatre venue in St. John’s Newfoundland. Dr. Graham worked closely with both the dramaturge and the director, Ian Campbell, on this presentation and acquired practical theatre skills as a result. Dr. Graham’s translation will be published in an annotated edition by ACMRS Press. Dr. Graham is co-investigator on the FOCI research package, IWP4.3 Dramatizing Gender and Fisheries, of which Dr. Skidmore is principal investigator.

Tarah Wright Collaborator (WP6) I have been a faculty member at Dalhousie University since 2001 and am currently a Full Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and the Director of the Education for Sustainability Research Group. My research program over the past two decades has been highly collaborative and multidisciplinary. It has incorporated an interdisciplinary range of fields related to environmental education, nature exposure, sustainability science, the role of the Arts in creating a sustainable future, all with a focus on the emerging field of education for sustainable development (ESD). My research is guided by critical theory, which focuses on critique and transformation in inquiry, allows values and ethics to guide the development and execution of research, and sees researchers in the role of advocates or activists. I situate all of my work within a constructivist paradigm, meaning that my research findings are seen as a snapshot of one of several truths within a particular timeframe. Methodologically, the majority of my work employs a grounded-theory approach where theoretical insights come from the inductive analysis of data rather than in hypotheses. My research also relies on a number of theoretical approaches. First, my research is guided by community based social marketing (CBSM) from within the field of environmental psychology. CBSM is an approach to change management that maintains that in order to understand how to increase environmentally-positive behaviours, we must first understand the demographic we are studying, including the perceived barriers and benefits specific to the population. Further, cultures and structures are shaped by complex, often contrasting belief systems. Understanding a population or community’s nature is essential to developing contextually appropriate change strategies. As such, my research requires a working knowledge of change management and organizational behavior theory. Although I have held major administrative positions at the university since 2001 (Director of Environmental Programs, and Associate Director in the College of Sustainability), my research program has remained active and continues to expand.