Bertrum MacDonald

Professor of Information Management and an EI:UI project team leader.

Areas of interest: dissemination and use of scientific information in the historical and contemporary contexts.

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Bertrum MacDonald

Bertrum MacDonald is a Professor of Information Management in the Department of Information Science in the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University. With a background in science (BSc, Biology), history of science (MA), and information science (MLS, PhD), he pursues research that investigates the dissemination and use of scientific information in historical and contemporary contexts. He is particularly interested in interdisciplinary research, such as the Environmental Information: Use and Influence initiative, since this work tackles large questions from the point of view of several relevant disciplines. He has been Director of the School of Information Management and recently was Dean of Dalhousie’s Faculty of Management. He can be seen speaking about research projects at local, national, and international levels, and he has held executive positions with local, national and international associations.

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Peter Wells

Adjunct Professor in the Marine Affairs Program, Faculty of Science, and in the School for Information Management, Faculty of Management. Senior Research Fellow in the International Ocean Institute – Canada, at Dalhousie University.

Areas of interest: aquatic and marine ecotoxicology, Bay of Fundy environmental issues, health of the oceans, monitoring, and marine environmental information – use and influence.

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Peter Wells

Peter Wells is an Adjunct Professor in the Marine Affairs Program, Faculty of Science and in the Department of Information Science, Faculty of Management, and a Senior Research Fellow, International Ocean Institute, at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS. He has a BSc in Biology (McGill University, 1967), a Master of Science in Zoology (University of Toronto, 1969) and a PhD in Zoology/Aquatic Toxicology (University of Guelph,1976). He retired 30 June, 2006, from Environment Canada, after 34 years of public service, his last position being the Head, Coastal and Water Science, and Senior Research Scientist, Coastal Ecosystems, in Dartmouth, NS. At the same time, he served the United Nations GESAMP in various capacities for 14 years, taught at Dalhousie University starting 1983, and taught an international marine pollution course in Bermuda for 16 years. He has approximately 300 publications. At Dalhousie, he supervises graduate students in marine environmental science and marine affairs (ecotoxicology, environmental indicators, ecological risk assessment, land-based marine pollution), and environmental informatics. His current research includes choosing indicators for coastal ecosystem health; utilizing blue mussels for monitoring chemical contaminants; and evaluating the use and influence of marine environmental information in environmental policies and decision making. His community service includes being Chair, Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership (BOFEP), and member of its working groups. He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000), and was a recipient of Dalhousie University's highest award for teaching excellence by part-time faculty (2002).

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Elizabeth De Santo

Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Franklin & Marshall College

Areas of interest: environmental governance, marine protected areas, and biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction.

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Suzuette Soomai

Adjunct faculty member in the School of Information Management and Faculty of Graduate Studies at Dalhousie.

Areas of interest: fisheries information and governance

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Sandra Toze

Department Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Information Science

Areas of interest: human information interaction, collaboration, digital governance, information governance, information policy, knowledge management

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Sandra Toze

Dr. Sandra Toze involves in examining the ways in which work is being transformed through innovative information and knowledge management practices, facilitated by technology, and increased collaboration. A core motivation of her work is to explore how key changes including social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and automation are affecting how we find, interact, and use information to solve problems and learn. Her research is centered on three related themes: 1) collaborative information and data processes of groups; 2) the shift to digital governance; and 3) user-specific, social, and mobile information interactions.

Dr. Toze was a collaborator in an SSHRC Partnership Development Grant - Transforming Government Work for the Digital Era, which co-hosted several events (two conferences, several forums, and conference panels) and produced a special issue of Canadian Public Administration. More recently, Dr. Toze was the Primary Investigator for a training needs analysis that assessed the current training needs for digital competencies across the Government of Canada and provided insights as to how the government can both develop digital competencies and adapt training and skills development capacities for a more modern and digital workplace. Key Recommendations included the need for broader and deeper digital literacy, to foster a more proactive training culture, to continually measure, and refine digital training, and to create differentiated training streams.

Currently, as part of the Environmental Information: Use and Influence (EIUI) team, Dr. Toze is part of the Canada First Research Excellence Fund 2023 grant – Transforming Climate Action, working on Cluster 3.2: Our Understanding of the Ocean-Climate Nexus, particularly regarding understanding challenges in ocean-related science-policy interfaces. This grant will allow her to extend her previous work on groups to examine collaboration within ocean science and policy communities.

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Ian Stewart

Assistant Professor of Humanities, University of King’s College

Areas of interest: Historical and contemporary relations between science and public debate and government policy.

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Isabelle Caron

Associate Professor, Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University

Program Director of Public Administration Programs, Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University

Areas of interest: Intersection of institutional and public policy; policy development and implementation; public integrity; public accountability; human resources management

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Isabelle Caron is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University and the Director of the Master of Public Administration programs. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on human resource management, employee motivation and retention, news ways of working, performance, integrity and accountability in the public sector. From 1999 to 2012, she worked at the Privy Council Office, the Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada, Health Canada and Canadian Heritage as a senior policy analyst.

Dr. Caron is part of the Canada First Research Excellence Fund 2023 grant – Transforming Climate Action, working on Cluster 3.2: Our Understanding of the Ocean-Climate Nexus, particularly regarding understanding challenges in ocean-related science-policy interfaces. This grant will allow her to explore more deeply the policy-making process in the context of climate action.

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Philippe Mongeon

Philippe Mongeon is an associate professor at the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University, director of the Quantitative Science Studies (QSS) Lab, and an associate member of the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST).

Areas of Interest: scholarly communication, altmetrics, bibliometrics, and research evaluation.

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Kevin Quigley

Scholarly Director, MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance and
Professor, School of Public Administration, Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University.

Areas of interest: risk governance and critical infrastructure protection, focusing in particular on public sector responses to rare and high impact events, such as pandemics, natural disasters, industrial failures and cyber and terrorist attacks.

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Anatoliy Gruzd

Anatoliy Gruzd is a Canada Research Chair in Social Media Data Stewardship, Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University (Canada), and Director of the Social Media Lab.

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Rémi Toupin

Rémi Toupin is a FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Information Science at Dalhousie University.

Areas of interest: scholarly communication, altmetrics, social impact of research, research evaluation, science-policy interface

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Lee Wilson

Research Consultant, Data Management, ACENET

Areas of interest: research data management and social network analysis for integrated coastal and ocean management.

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Lee Wilson

Lee joined EIUI in 2014 where he completed his thesis research that focused on understanding information pathways in complex networks, particularly in the context of natural resource management occurring in coastal and ocean regions. As a Research Consultant for data management with ACENET, Lee provides specialized training and consultation to help researchers at each stage of the Research Data Lifecycle: from the conceptualization of a project and initial data collection, to publicly sharing and preserving data for future use. Prior to taking on this role, Lee worked with the Marine Environmental Observation Prediction and Response (MEOPAR) network’s Data Management Project, solving issues related to the storage, discovery, and accessibility of ocean data. Lee holds a BA (English) from Mount Allison University and a Master of Library and Information Studies from Dalhousie University.

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James Ross

Lecturer for the Dalhousie Faculty of Engineering

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James Ross

James Ross is a part-time member of the EIUI research team. He began working with EIUI while completing a Master of Library and Information Studies degree at Dalhousie’s School of Information Management, pursuing a thesis that investigated the creation, promotion, awareness, and use of the State of the Scotian Shelf Report. Since completing his thesis, James has served as coordinator for the EIUI monograph project, Science, Information, and Policy Interface for Effective Coastal and Ocean Management. He is currently a lecturer for the Dalhousie Faculty of Engineering, and continues to contribute to EIUI as a writer, presenter, and editor.

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Rachael Cadman

Rachael is currently pursuing an Interdisciplinary PhD at Dalhousie University, supervised by Dr. Megan Bailey.

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Rachael Cadman

Rachael is currently pursuing an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. at Dalhousie University, supervised by Dr. Megan Bailey. She completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of King's College and a Master of Resource and Environmental Management from Dalhousie. She currently works alongside the Torngat Plants, Wildlife, and Fisheries Secretariat and other partners to map out a vision of the future of fisheries in Nunatsiavut and create holistic fisheries governance solutions that are resilient against environmental and societal change. She enjoys the opportunity to do research in a space that is more iterative and collaborative than traditional research projects.

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Simon Ryder-Burbidge

Ecology Action Centre

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Simon Ryder-Burbidge

Originally from Toronto, Ontario, family expeditions to the sandbars and tidal pools of Price Edward Island instilled in Simon a love for the ocean and its inhabitants at a young age. Attending Wilfrid Laurier University and studying a semester abroad at Karlstad University in Sweden, Simon completed a degree in Environmental Studies in 2014, minoring in Global Studies, followed by a Master of Marine Management degree at Dalhousie University in 2018.  Following employment across Canada as a commercial diver, tree planter, photographer and volunteer radio producer, Simon now works with the Ecology Action Centre, an environmental non-profit based in Halifax, focusing on the development of marine protected areas. Simon’s work with EIUI investigates the role of public perception and engagement in policy development and ocean governance.

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Ruth Cordes

Ruth Cordes holds a BSc (Hons. Physics) from Dalhousie University and an MSc in Physics (Oceanography) from the University of British Columbia

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Hali Moreland

Hali Moreland completed her Master of Marine Management graduate research project with EIUI. In that project, she examined how information is used in public consultation processes for marine conservation.

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Curtis Martin

Communications and Projects Manager at the Ocean Frontier Institute

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Curtis Martin

Curtis Martin recently completed the Marine Affairs program at Dalhousie University, graduating with a Master of Marine Management degree in 2019. He graduated from the University of Victoria with a combined degree in Earth and Ocean Sciences and Biology, and an Ocean Sciences minor. Curtis now works with the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI), helping out with communications and managing annual reporting for OFI's research projects.

Although holding a natural science background, Curtis is now more interested in the social science aspects of climate change and the ocean. Curtis' work with EIUI focuses on how social media is used to communicate science to diverse audiences online.

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