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Canada (2013). Andrew championed incorporation of community conservation into Ghanaian Protected Area Management systems generally and currently leads Ghana’s growing Community Resource Management Area (CREMA) program. Currently: Operations Manager and co-head of the Collaborative Resource Management Unit within the Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission of Ghana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1524086477205-JVF5RCRLDMBNK0JHMMQ0/Saul_Milne.JPG The Murray Lab Dr. Saul Milne, University of Victoria Saul Milne is from the Village of Cheam, a member of the Pilalt Tribe. He has worked in the field of natural resource management for 15 years, largely focusing on the resource/state/indigenous peoples nexus. He is interested in the intersection of protracted, social and ethnic based conflict and natural resource co-management and in developing strategies and approaches to the elimination of distributional inequities and structural violence. Saul is conducting his research on fisheries management and political ontologies in collaboration with the Tla-o-qui-aht, on Vancouver Island's west coast. In addition to pursuing his doctoral studies in Geography, Saul specializes in group facilitation that takes him across Canada to work with indigenous groups and fisheries. Currently: Strategic Advisor for Ha’oom Fisheries Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1524085902514-U1OU4YHA2FRSUO1O1L49/boaler.jpg The Murray Lab Chelsea Boaler, Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland Chelsea Boaler is the first PhD student accepted into the Fisheries Science program at the Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland. She will be involved with integrating multiple knowledge types to better understand capelin dynamics in Canadian North Atlantic waters under the co-supervision of Drs. Marie Clément and Grant Murray. Chelsea will be working closely with fishing and Indigenous communities along the North and South Shores of Labrador and the Quebec Lower North Shore region to better understand changing capelin dynamics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1522094159759-2TOLVU0MF8D72I86QEQI/murray_highres.jpg The Murray Lab https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/05d83e5f-6dc3-4f6f-a8df-cdcc13e9bfc8/IMG_4473.JPG The Murray Lab Robin Fail, Duke University Marine Lab Robin is a doctoral student at the Duke University Marine Lab with interests in political ecology and human geography. Her research is guided by an interest in how social systems and marine ecosystems interact, the governance structures used to moderate those interactions, and the processes for integrating diverse values, knowledge systems, and priorities into policymaking. She is interested in how human-environment relations are enacted and understood differently in the face of competing values. Her dissertation research focuses on the role of discourse in constituting the politics and policies related to aquaculture development and the equity implications of policy tradeoffs in this sector. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1524086572465-K53G6QH7KU7NMI8GJKJ2/beach+luke.jpg The Murray Lab Dr. Luke Fairbanks, PhD in Marine Science and Conservation, Duke University Marine Lab Luke Fairbanks is a human geographer and environmental social scientist. His research explores human-environment interactions, focusing on ocean and coastal spaces, resources, governance, and policies. His primary work explores the broad range of values and attitudes people associate with seafood production in North Carolina. His other research explores the human dimensions of large marine protected areas, critical perspectives on marine spatial planning in the United States, and the development of US marine aquaculture policy. Currently: Assistant Research Professor in the Division of Coastal Sciences at the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Coast Research Laboratory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1524085751029-KH7PCP3MS2IVO9BXKOXP/Greg+BWPS.jpg The Murray Lab Greg Duggan, University of Cape Town With a background in Social Anthropology, Greg has a keen interest in combining interdisciplinary thinking with participatory action research in marine social-ecological systems. His PhD research since 2015 has focused on the traditional commercial linefishery of the southern Cape coastal region of South Africa. Working with linefishers, community members, as well as teachers and learners in rural, underprivileged schools, the work has focused on the co-development of strategies to understand and address pressing local social-ecological challenges. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1524086390421-61BDO8CE5VB3UNYUTHR1/Jess-blythe.jpg The Murray Lab Dr. Jessica Blythe Jessica works at the intersection between the land and the sea, between resilience thinking and critical social theory, and I am fascinated by how communities respond to change. Drawing on theories from human geography, resilience, and common pool resources, she aims to make space for local voices to contribute to conversations about natural resource management in order to build systems that foster the capacity for both ecological sustainability and social equality. Jessica received her PhD in Geograph from the University of Victoria in 2013, then took a PDF position at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, in collaboration with WorldFish. Currently: SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/8a849ea6-41eb-4eb5-bcf3-39180f9f37ac/PXL_20211004_014315104.jpg The Murray Lab Julia Bingham, Duke University Marine Lab Julia is a doctoral student interested in coastal human-nature relationships and in developing equitable governance and management strategies to support environmental health and human well-being. Julia primarily draws from fields of political ecology and critical human geography, and is informed by literature in environmental sociology, queer ecologies, Indigenous feminisms, and a prior background in conservation and coastal ecology. Their dissertation research focuses on the role of multiple knowledges and relationships of power in the governance of salmon on the west coast of Vancouver Island, BC. Julia conducts the work with the permission, guidance, and colaboraiton of Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations and Ha'oom Fishing Society, with intent to support the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations' path towards self determination through agency in fisheries governance. Website: juliaabingham.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1524085975898-LW4JA9D837CY8S4YL22W/download.jpg The Murray Lab Rachelle Beveridge, University of Victoria Rachelle lives on a farm in Bella Coola, BC, where she moved to complete her PhD fieldwork with the Nuxalk Nation’s Stewardship Office. Since then, she has helped to coordinate an extensive community-engaged project documenting Nuxalk knowledge about eulachon (Thaleichthys pacificus), a locally-extirpated anadromous smelt with great cultural and ecological significance. Rachelle’s PhD research reflects on the project process and product, and the relationships between eulachon, local stewardship, and community well-being. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/86fb04af-748a-4dc8-bae0-16faaf09c022/Rafid+Headshot.JPG The Murray Lab Rafid Shidqi, Duke University Marine Lab Rafid Shidqi (he/him) is a trained marine conservationist from Indonesia. He is currently a PhD student at the Duke University Marine Lab and the founder of Thresher Shark Indonesia, a youth-led NGO focused on conserving endangered sharks and helping communities transition from traditional shark hunting to alternative livelihoods through research, education, and policy change. Before attending Duke, Rafid worked as a consultant for various global organizations, including the Asian Development Bank, FAO, and the Asia Philanthropy Circle, on issues related to fisheries, climate change, and increasing access to funding for youth to lead climate adaptation and mitigation initiatives across the Asia-Pacific region. His PhD work will focus on understanding the emergence of local political resistance in response to shark conservation interventions using the lens of political ecology. He cares about sharks and human well-being, and his goal is to understand how conservation (specifically in Indonesia) can be designed equitably without causing social marginalization. Rafid earned a Master of Science in Coastal Science and Policy from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He also received a certificate in Sustainable Environmental Management from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a 2022 Graduate Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science (ICCS) in the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, UK. Website: https://linktr.ee/rafidshidqi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/9658cc42-30e8-44af-881b-d768ff9928e9/nztake2.jpeg The Murray Lab Louisa Pitney, Duke University Marine Lab Louisa is a research technician interested in sustainable seafood systems and community-driven environmental policy. Her current work focuses on social dimensions of the shellfish aquaculture industry, including how state policies shape outcomes and the barriers and opportunities faced by underrepresented groups. Louisa’s approach combines qualitative and quantitative tools to understand how people’s perceptions, histories, and contexts align with real-world environmental and policy outcomes. She holds a Master of Environmental Management (MEM) degree from Duke University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1524086543443-9APII3OB30RRWPRVTOW4/dana_hiking_CO.jpg The Murray Lab Dr. Dana Baker, PhD in Marine Science and Conservation, Duke University Marine Lab Dana successfully defended her dissertation in the Spring of 2022. Her dissertation research focused on the interactions between the wellbeing of small-scale fishers and marine protected areas (MPAs) in Tanzania. Building on this work, Dana’s post-doctoral research is working to characterize the human wellbeing impacts and outcomes of large-scale marine conservation initiatives around the world. As a marine social scientist, her interests are in the fields of environment and development, specifically surrounding the human dimensions, and social outcomes, of marine conservation programs, like MPAs. She draws from diverse social science literatures and incorporates theories of power, government, resistance, and subject creation into her work. She has an MSc in Environmental Science from Yale University, a BS in Environmental Science from the University of San Francisco, and was a Peace Corps Environment Volunteer in Tanzania. Currently: postdoctoral fellow at the Marine Ethnoecology Lab, University of Victoria https://murraylab.com/current-work daily 0.75 2025-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/8f9173a2-3274-44d2-a70a-eae82f47518a/PXL_20250418_192418979.MP.jpg Current Work Assessing Equity in the U.S. Shellfish Aquaculture Industry Duke Climate Research Innovation Seed Program (CRISP) and the North Carolina Collaboratory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1540429086037-7GOIM3ADU22FG9A1X90F/gill+net+1.JPG Current Work The Value of Fishing, Farming, and Eating: new approaches to understanding fishing community well-being in a changing world North Carolina Sea Grant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1540429303329-VC8CNOW80T44U68FKEI1/dune.jpeg Current Work Integrating Social Science into Park Management, Planning, and Policy-making Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1540429327607-D9SO6O8BY9M6A9ZEJSIG/kayak.jpeg Current Work Exploring distinct indigenous knowledge systems to inform governance and management on Canada's coasts Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1540429027988-G6RWYUMW51JO0DTGA364/morehead+pier+sunset.JPG Current Work Fishing for Food: gathering baseline information and observations on recreational fishers who consume their catch in Carteret County, NC. Duke University Master’s Project, North Carolina Sea Grant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1540429166430-KV18TECDLJXW6KOWKYJV/image-asset.jpeg Current Work Politics, Power, and Institutions: facilitating knowledge exchange for the conservation of marine resources in the coastal zone of Tanzania Duke University Office of Global Affairs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1540429213666-T0X66Y2V02D0X4D4QDQQ/salmon+small.png Current Work Enhancing Production in Coho: Culture, Community, and Catch (EPIC4) Genome Canada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1540429275601-HSSWL5ZDZQE4J06FPDJS/pound+net+1.JPG Current Work Integrating genomics, phenotypes and local ecological knowledge towards improving capelin stock management in Canadian Atlantic and Arctic waters Nunavut Research Institute, Torngat Secretariat, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1540429357740-9XUNLA22DRBWZNVK7N9T/gill+net+3.JPG Current Work Oceancanada Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada https://murraylab.com/seafood daily 0.75 2018-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1538761987906-DQW1HJ1AY78S51UJIX80/UMaine_fullcrest_logo4c.png Seafood Values https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1538761970205-HZZLHJ9ZAUC676WMP7ZH/NCSG.jpg Seafood Values https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1538765636449-EE43QJ864TJZZSWMY17Z/Q+statements.jpg Seafood Values Preparing different statements about seafood production for Q method. Q method asks participants to sort a variety of statements according to how much they agree or think similarly to the text. Here the project team is running through piles of candidate statements to settle on a final sample. (Photo: L. Fairbanks) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1538762087771-25MOES02SEK7DPGJUKKR/core+sound+image.png Seafood Values https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1538762463234-YPRMU1DEO966FM39Y2BE/P1090707.JPG Seafood Values Sifting oysters by size. Oyster mariculture is a rapidly growing activity in North Carolina, but with its growth come new social and ecological interactions in coastal waters. Here small oysters are sifted so they can be separated into differently-sized mesh bags for grow-out on a local shellfish farm. (Photo: L. Fairbanks) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1538766872201-MBIMDDNZ7E8LVIJFVAWQ/P1010531.JPG Seafood Values Gill-netting for flounder. Commercial fishing is longstanding part of NC coastal communities and economies; it is also often a small-scale endeavor. Here a commercial fisherman removes a flounder from his gill net. (Photo: L. Fairbanks) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1538761996459-QJ1LEWA2J972XOLES362/unc-csi_large.png Seafood Values https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/1538762130004-3KGE6MACED66MYSHNZJQ/logo-marinelab-blue.png Seafood Values https://murraylab.com/shellfish-equity daily 0.75 2025-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/13c0cb70-f1a7-4ba7-994b-7109852ced7a/LP+HK+MP.jpeg Shellfish Equity - Make it stand out Left: Master’s students Louisa Pitney (‘25) and Hayley Kaplan (‘25) present the results of their research focusing on data collection and common barriers and opportunities faced by underrepresented groups. (Photo: J. Zwissler) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/0a359b0a-1a08-4d82-8742-fcb08ca15497/PXL_20250418_192418979.MP.jpg Shellfish Equity - Make it stand out Example of floating cage oyster culture at the Duke University Oyster Farm in Carteret County, North Carolina. The introduction of floating cages has helped increase productivity in oyster farming, but the visibility of the gear and occupation of surface waters have also brought conflict with community members concerned about their viewshed or water activities. (Photo: L. Pitney) https://murraylab.com/nc-markets daily 0.75 2025-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942c95717bffc7af8f3f722/12c45a2a-348d-4190-a072-e3687b55935e/headshot.jpg NC Aquaculture Markets - Make it stand out Alice Daeschler, Duke University MEM ‘26