Projects of individuals or organizations affiliated with the CURRA.

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Heritage Cluster Pilot Project

An exciting new pilot project has been launched on the Great Northern Peninsula to assist community heritage organizations improve their operations and services to the public and build their capacity overall. Supported through the Tourism, Culture and Recreation's Cultural Economic Development Program, this three-year pilot will determine the effectiveness of providing professional heritage services and staff at a regional level.

The RED Ochre Regional Board is the project lead, working in conjunction with the Pilot Advisory Committee, composed of the Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation, the Museum Association of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives and the Association of Heritage Industries. The Board is dedicating their considerable expertise in regional development to the pilot, ensuring the long-term success of the Great Northern Peninsula Heritage Network. Other partners in this initiative include the Nordic Economic Development Corporation and the Community-University Research for Recovery Alliance.

Cluster Pilot Project Objectives:

• To enhance standards and best practices in the operation of community museums and archives and to enhance the visitor experience;
• To develop individual and cluster strategic plans and to provide full-time professional staff to help implement these plans;
• To build the capacity as a whole by undertaking collaborative projects; and
• To increase the long-term sustainability of the organizations

For more information:

• Visit the project website.

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Voluntary Snow Crab Closures

For the past several years there has been a voluntary snow crab fishery closure in Bonne Bay - initiated by fish harvesters to help rejuvenate crab stocks. These 'voluntary closures' are gaining popularity in NL as can be seen through examples in St. Brendan's, Trout River and Funk Island Deep. As part of her Master's research at Memorial University, Kim Olson has been looking at what drives these voluntary initiatives.

• Read the document.

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Canadian Capture Fisheries Research Network

The NSERC Canadian Capture Fisheries Research Network (CCFRN) is a unique collaboration of academic researchers, the fishing industry, and government researchers and managers from across Canada. The vision of the Network is to re-shape fisheries research in Canada, bringing together industry, academia and government on priority research questions and linking existing research so that it is useful to industry and management.

• Visit the project website.

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International Coastal Network

This research program aims at developing an "interactive governance" model for coastal sustainability. It places a strong emphasis on the understanding of connectivity and interactions among coastal areas' natural, economic, social and governance systems. It involves an exploration of ways in which coastal actors, both private and public, participate in addressing coastal concerns through problem-solving and opportunity creation.

• Visit the project website.

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Canadian Healthy Oceans Network

The Canadian Healthy Oceans Network, or CHONe (pronounced Ko-nee), is an NSERC strategic network focused on biodiversity science for the sustainability of Canada's three oceans.

• Visit the project website.

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Voice of Bonne Bay

The Voice of Bonne Bay (VOBB) is a community radio station located in Norris Point, in the middle of Gros Morne National Park, in Newfoundland and Labrador.

• Visit the project website.

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Newfoundland Lobster Facebook group

This Newfoundland Lobster group exists to share news, information, pictures, videos and stories about the lobster industry in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

• Visit the Facebook group.

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Informational Placemats on Species at Risk

A series of informational placemats by Intervale Associates that present current knowledge from collaborative research in Newfoundland and Labrador about species at risk. Eye-catching iIllustrations combined with science, "What You Can Do" tips, and the support of diverse stakeholder groups send an engaging and inclusive message about species recovery - all of us can help. Intervale uses placemats as tools for stewardship because it believes that family restaurants and community events are vibrant gathering places for knowledge exchange in rural areas. Across the Province, more than 500,000 placemats have been distributed to approximately 60 restaurants and community organizations. Placemats pictured here are: Atlantic cod, leatherback turtle, Labrador woodland caribou, and plants of the limestone barrens of the Great Northern Peninsula. For more information contact Kathleen Blanchard.

• Atlantic Cod: All of us Can Help!
• Woodland Caribou: Our Culture, Our Future!
• Leatherback Turtle in Newfoundland and Labrador Waters
• Limestone Barrens: Ours to Protect!
• Seabirds and Sea Ducks of Labrador
• Recovery of Newfoundland Marten

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Activating Change Together for Community Food Security in Nova Scotia

Activating Change Together (ACT) for Community Food Security is a participatory research project that enhances Community Food Security for all Nova Scotians. This collaboration of community partners, academics, and government agencies is a 5-year Community University Research Alliance (CURA) project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The project will use a diversity of tools to explore CFS, including community food assessments, policy mapping and analysis, and exploration of citizen perspectives through a variety of dialogues, interactive learning, and multi-media technologies.

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FemNorthNet (Feminist Northern Network)

FemNorthNet (or the Feminist Northern Network) is a network of researchers within and outside of universities and colleges together with representatives of community-based organizations, in northern Canada as well as working across Canada. FemNorthNet works with and in three Northern communities: La Loche, Saskatchewan, Thompson, Manitoba, and Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador. Using an intersectional gendered analysis and participatory action research, FemNorthNet focuses on sustainable economic development in the North by exploring similarities and differences among and between different groups of women. These include Aboriginal women in the North, women with disabilities, immigrant women, women with children, women of various ages and women from different language groups. By studying these timely issues through perspectives that are often overlooked, FemNorthNet is poised to provoke broader discussions on economic restructuring and healthy communities. Tough questions about community infrastructure and social issues like poverty, violence, and housing have to be asked. And answers must include and involve women.

This research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council through its Northern Communities Special Call CURA Program.

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The Coastal CURA

The Coastal CURA is a five-year project that is building knowledge and capacity, across the Maritimes, to support community involvement in managing our coasts and oceans. The Coastal CURA - a "Community University Research Alliance" - is a partnership of First Nations communities, fishery-related organizations and university participants, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

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Integrated Coastal Zone Management - Marine Resources Map

Great Northern Peninsula Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) has created a Coastal Map - a visual tool to enhance coastal awareness and planning along the Great Northern Peninsula.

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Coasts Under Stress

Coasts Under Stress is a unique experiment in genuinely interdisciplinary research which aims to identify the impact of social and environmental restructuring on environmental and human health along Canada's coasts. It is a first step in a dialogue about policy change that could help contribute to sustainable fisheries and fishing communities in the future.

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