Selected Work

Writing and Editorial

AI & the acoustic frontier

Researchers are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to help decode underwater recordings and reveal patterns that would otherwise stay hidden.

Published at Marine Professional

Menai Strait mussel farmers fear for their livelihoods

Post-Brexit regulations are posing a threat to one of the UK’s oldest aquaculture sectors in the Menai Strait, where mussel harvests have dropped from 7,500 tonnes in 2016 to around 400 tonnes in 2022.

Published at The Fish Site

Protecting coastlines

Coastal erosion is reshaping our world, threatening homes, industries, and culturally important places. With ADCPs, scientists in Israel are exploring how wind-driven waves and currents shape coastlines.

Published at Oceanographic Magazine

Open access for climate justice

Open-access science, data, and community-engaged research are helping to drive a more just climate future in Canada.

Published at Canadian Science Publishing

The GloBallast story: reflections from a global family

As the GEF-UNDP-IMO GloBallast (Global Ballast Water Management Programme) comes to an end, we recap on the milestones and achievements of the programme.

Available from the International Maritime Organization

How Seabed Mapping Can Help Guide High-Seas Conservation

There are few places on earth as dynamic as the boundary between ocean and atmosphere. Measuring these dynamics is tricky, but a suite of instruments gives us a glimpse into the air-sea interface.

Published at Eco Magazine

Quiet Vessel Initiative

A four-part series unpacking underwater noise pollution created by vessels (underwater radiated noise) and the technical and operational solutions being explored under Canada’s Quiet Vessel Initiative

Published at Clear Seas

Optimising forest carbon projects

For foresters considering a carbon project, optimisation technology can make the process - from project management to balancing other uses to harvesting regimes and carbon registry methodologies - simpler and more efficient.

Published at Remsoft

Tackling poor mental health at sea

Seafarer mental health is under intense strain. The COVID-19 pandemic and onboard conditions have caused immense stress and other issues for workers. What can be done to help?

Published at On the Radar

Research & Knowledge Translation

Application of Open Innovation to marine animal movement research

Report created for a government agency exploring techniques used to monitor highly mobile and migratory marine species and the potential role of open science and innovation.

Deliverables confidential

Spatial–temporal distributions & associated determining factors of a keystone pelagic fish

Paper modelling the spatial dynamics of capelin (Mallotus villosus) over horizontal, vertical, and temporal axes within Atlantic Canada.

Published in ICES

From Marine Meta-communities to Meta-ecosystems

Collaborative paper using a meta-ecosystem framework to establish the types of benthic ecosystems that are coupled by resource flows, the spatial scale and directionality of the couplings, and the magnitude of resulting subsidization of recipient organisms

Published in Ecosystems

Driving ocean management with open innovation

Collaborative paper unpacking the potential role of open innovation for enhancing the cost-effectiveness and quality of data gathering for effective decision-making.

In preparation

The Critical Ingredients of Dynamic Approaches to Ocean Resource Management

Collaborative paper providing examples of dynamic ocean management, the approaches’ potential and challenges to implementation.

Published in BioScience

Biodiversity Action Plan – Strandline Habitat

Report created for a government agency exploring the management approaches and ecological implications of managing a natural strandline, and one created from human activity.