Schedule
All Events are in Atlantic Daylight Time
Friday, SEPT 25th
Saturday, SEPT 26th
6:00 pm // Land Acknowledgement & Welcome Remarks
6:10 pm // Mi'kmaq Blessing & Teaching
6:30 pm // Sobey Fund for Ocean Scholarship Presentations
6:45 pm // Short Break
6:50 pm // Panel: Local contributions to the UN Decade for Ocean Science
7:40 pm // Short Break
7:45 pm // Panel Resumes
8:30 pm // Closing Remarks
10:00 am // Welcome Remarks
10:05 am // Presentation Series 1: Exploring Social Aspects of Fisheries and Aquaculture
11:15 am // Snack & Learn Session 1: Innovative Ocean Management in Atlantic Canada
12:00 pm // Keynote Speaker: Diz Glithero
1:00 pm // Presentation Series 2: Local Contexts for Global Solutions
1:35 pm // Snack & Learn Session 2: Global Strategies for Ocean Management
2:15 pm // Presentation Series 3: Creative Approaches and Solutions
3:15 pm // Contest Winner Announcements, Closing Remarks
ORDER OF PRESENTERS
Presentation Series 1: Exploring Social Aspects of Fisheries and Aquaculture
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Shannon Wood: Drivers of social acceptability for bivalve aquaculture in Atlantic Canadian communities
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Mairin Deith: Improving communication of stakeholders' fishery objectives - A case study from managing the rebuilding of an Atlantic Canadian fishery
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Allison Cutting: Incidentally undermined: Impacts of bycatch on conservation efforts and community livelihoods
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Camille Mancion: Exploring traceability in small-scale fisheries: From harvest to landing
Snack and Learn Session 1: Innovative Ocean Management in Atlantic Canada
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Gabrielle Deveau: Using integrative knowledge to enhance stewardship of American eel (Anguilla rostrata) in the Minas Basin
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Delaney Ewing: Managing the development of Canada's benthic Marine Protected Areas while preserving economic opportunities for Maritime groundfish fisheries on the Scotian Shelf
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Monica Ragan: The role small craft harbours have for the livelihoods of their users and communities
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Lindsay Carroll: Tracking the spawning migration of Atlantic tomcod (Microgadus tomcod) within Minas Basin, Nova Scotia using acoustic telemetry
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Noémie Blais: Assessing the impacts of plastics on the Atlantic Leatherback Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) and current management strategies in the North-West Atlantic Ocean
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Gamra Oueslati: Organic geochemical survey of water column in the Labrador Sea
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Myriam Mora: Characterization and assessment of petroleum hydrocarbons in small craft harbour sediments in Nova Scotia
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Morganne Robben: Leaving space to roost: An examination of human disturbances to migratory shorebirds in the Minas Basin, Nova Scotia
Presentation Series 2: Local Contexts for Global Solutions
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Shannon Landovskis: Identifying American lobster (Homarus americanus) movement patterns and habitat use to contribute to stronger stewardship of marine resources
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Rebecca Croke: Integrating climate-smart management into Ascension Island MPA
Snack and Learn Session 2: Global Strategies for Ocean Management
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Shahriar Nazrul: Identifying means to reduce institutional barriers to government initiatives within the responsible ministry for sustainable marine fisheries development in Bangladesh
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Jenna Morisette: Identification of tools for implementing an ecosystem-based approach to species recovery under the Species at Risk Act
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Rachel Rickaby: Consideration of marine non-Indigenous species in marine protected area planning, management, and monitoring in Canada
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Kiana Endresz: Understanding the energy and nutrient linkages that exist between salt marsh ecosystems and nearshore fisheries
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Vivian Guido: Aquae Vitae: The effects of textile waste from the fashion industry on the oceans
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Jessica Cucinelli: Assessing shipping risk in the eastern Canadian Arctic: A Mary River project case study
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Catherine Thompson: Influences to advice and decision-making in DFO Maritimes Region: Opportunities for improved ocean management
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Bailey Levesque: Toxic effects of various plasticizer and polyethylene microbead exposure on larval zebrafish (Danio rerio)
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Omar Sickander: Factors affecting IMTA (Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture) implementation on Atlantic Salmon (Salmon salar) aquaculture farms)
Presentation Series 3: Creative Approaches and Solutions
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Noémie Roy: Ocean literacy and community resilience: A case study on coastal middle school in Quebec
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Jessica Hum: Using nature-based solutions in the fishing sector to address climate change
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Stefan Miller: Electrically stimulated artificial mussel (Mytilus edulis) reefs to create shoreline protection and coastal habitat in St. Margaret's Bay, Nova Scotia