Johnson Lab's Marine Social Science Research
The Johnson Lab investigates vulnerability and resilience in Maine’s coastal communities. We use a mixed method, ethnographic approach to understand how communities have been impacted by social and ecological changes, how they responded to those changes in the past, and how they might respond in the future.
Key areas of investigation relate to social resilience and social-ecological change associated with fisheries, aquaculture, and marine renewable energy.
Select Publications
- Yan, J., Beard, K., & Johnson, T.R. (2021). A quantitative assessment of spatial patterns of socio-demographic change in Coastal Maine: one process or many? Applied Geography.
- Johnson, T.R. (2020). Reflecting on Maine’s Changing Productive Coastal Region. Maine Policy Review, 29(2):91-97.
- Mazur, M. D., & Johnson, T. R. (2020). Effects of increases in fishery resource abundance on conservation compliance. Marine policy.
- Bricknell, I.R., Birkel, S.D., Brawley, S.H., Van Kirk, T., Hamlin, H., Capistrant-Fossa, K., Huguenard, K., Van Walsum, G., Liu, Z.L., Zhu, L. H., Grebe, G., Taccardi, E., Miller, M., Preziosi, B.M., Duffy, K., Byron, C.J., Quigley, C.T.C., Bowden T.J., Brady, D., Sappati, P.K., Johnson, T.R., Beal, B.F., Moeykens, S. (2020). Resilience of cold water aquaculture: A review of likely scenarios as climate changes in the Gulf of Maine. Reviews in Aquaculture.
- Johnson, T.R., Beard, K., Brady, D.C., Byron, C.J., Cleaver, C., Duffy, K., Keeney, N., Kimble, M., Miller, M., Moeykens, S., Teisl, M., van Walsum, G.P., & Yuan, J. (2019). A social-ecological system framework for marine aquaculture research. Sustainability, 11, 2522.
- Ovitz, K.L. and Johnson, T.R., 2019. Seeking sustainability: Employing Ostrom’s SESF to explore spatial fit in Maine’s sea urchin fishery. International Journal of the Commons, 13(1), pp.276–302.
- Johnson, T.R. & Hanes, S.P. (2019). Considering social carrying capacity in the context of sustainable ecological aquaculture. In J.E. and C.P. Heidkamp (eds.), Towards Coastal Resilience and Sustainability, Routledge.
- Johnson, T.R. & Mazur, M. (2018). A mixed method approach to understanding the graying of Maine’s lobster fleet. Bulletin of Marine Science, 94(3):1185-1199.
- Cleaver, C., Johnson, T.R., Hanes, S.P., & Pianka, K. (2018). From fishers to farmers: Assessing aquaculture adoption in a training program for commercial fishers. Bulletin of Marine Science, 94(3):1215-1222.
- Ebel, S.A., Beitl, C.M., Runnebaum, J., Alden, R., & Johnson, T.R. (2018). The power of participation: Challenges and opportunities for facilitating trust in cooperative fisheries research in the Maine lobster fishery. Marine Policy, 90:47-54
- Brewer, J., Springuel, N., Wilson, J., Alden, R., Morse, D., Schmitt, C., Bartlett, C., Johnson, T., Guenther, C., & Brady, D. (2017). Engagement in a public forum: Knowledge, action, and cosmopolitanism. Antipode, 49(2):273-293.
- Thompson, C., Johnson, T.R., Hanes, S.P. (2016). Vulnerability of fishing communities undergoing gentrification. Journal of Rural Studies, 45:165-174.
- Henry, A.M., & Johnson, T.R. (2015). Understanding social resilience in the Maine lobster industry. Marine and Coastal Fisheries. 7(1):33-43.
