Bertrum MacDonald, research lead for the Environmental Information: Use and Influence (EIUI) research program, has been appointed Visiting Researcher by the International Ocean Institute-Canada (IOI-Canada) for 2016-2017. Dr. MacDonald, who recently concluded a term as Dean of the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie and is on a year-long research leave, will continue his line of […]
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EIUI Research Team Participates in New Ocean Frontier Institute
The Canadian federal government announced a major new research grant on Tuesday, 6 September 2016, that will support the work of the new Ocean Frontier Institute at Dalhousie University. Scott Brison, President of the Treasury Board, confirmed that the government has approved Dalhousie’s application to the Canada First Research Excellence Fund for $93.7 million. […]
Bay of Fundy in Flux: BoFEP’s 11th Science Workshop
The 11th Bay of Fundy Science Workshop, organized by the Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership (BoFEP) was held in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on 8-11 June 2016. Held every two years, the workshop brings representatives from the communities that live, work, and study along the Bay together to discuss recent research and developments happening in and […]
Lee Wilson Wins 2016 Sangster Award
The EIUI research team is very pleased to congratulate Lee Wilson who was recently named the 2016 recipient of the Sangster Award. Lee was selected from among masters and doctoral student applicants across Canada to attend and present his research at the International Council for Science: Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) conference […]
Ian Stewart presents paper on a social science perspective on oil spill response and social licence
A very important and topical area of scientific and technical research ongoing in Canada and around the world concerns the fate and effects of hydrocarbons when released into marine, freshwater, and land-based ecosystems. In the Canadian context, a recent massive study carried out under the direction of the Royal Society of Canada required 461 pages […]
Coastal Zone Canada 2016 Emphasized Collaboration to Achieve Coastal Resilience
The 2016 Coastal Zone Canada conference, organized by the Coastal Zone Canada Association, was held on 12-16 June 2016 at the University of Toronto’s Chestnut Convention Centre in Toronto. This biennial conference provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and information related to coastal zone management in Canada and globally. Representatives from universities […]
EIUI Launches Important New Book
The EIUI research team launched the new volume, Science, Information, and Policy Interface for Effective Coastal and Ocean Management, on 6 June 2016 at Dalhousie University. Edited by Bertrum H. MacDonald, Suzuette S. Soomai, Elizabeth M. De Santo, and Peter G. Wells, this timely volume was published by CRC Press (division of Taylor & Francis). […]
EIUI Team Member Presents Paper at the International Studies Association (ISA) Conference in Atlanta, GA
EIUI team member Elizabeth De Santo (Department of Earth and Environment, Franklin & Marshall College) presented a paper at the International Studies Association (ISA) conference in Atlanta, GA on March 17th. Entitled “Militarized Marine Protected Areas: synergizing security and conservation objectives?”, Dr. De Santo’s paper was part of a panel she chaired on “Securing Marine […]
EIUI Team Members Speak about their Research
EIUI team members, Suzuette Soomai, Lee Wilson, and Ian Stewart, recently spoke about their research in several academic and professional settings. Suzuette Soomai, Post-Doctoral Fellow, spoke about “Elucidating the Role of Scientific Information in Decision-making for Fisheries Management” in the Ocean and Ecosystem Science Seminar Series at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova […]
EIUI Team Member Participates in Course in China
Peter Wells, a member and co-lead of the Environmental Information: Use and Influence research team, and a senior research fellow at the International Ocean Institute (IOI), travelled to Haikou, Hainan, China, in late January 2016, with an IOI team (Figure 1) to attend and participate in the Inaugural Program of the China-Asean Academy on Ocean […]