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Garret Richards

Co-investigator (IWP1)

Garrett Richards is an assistant professor with the Environmental Policy Institute at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Grenfell Campus. His research interests cover renewable energy, climate change (especially local-level adaptation planning), renewable energy, evidence-based policy, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, science-policy interfaces, knowledge mobilization, and deliberative democracy. Current projects include launching an Innovation Lab for the Environmental Policy Institute, investigating the differences in science outreach between university and government scientists, membership in the SSHRC-funded PhiLab (i.e. Philanthropy Lab) Atlantic Hub, and an emerging initiative that will engage stakeholders to identify research needs for energy planning and development in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Garret Richards

We acknowledge that the lands on which Memorial University’s campuses are situated are in the traditional territories of diverse Indigenous groups, and we acknowledge with respect the diverse histories and cultures of the Beothuk, Mi’kmaq, Innu, and Inuit of this province.

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To learn more about Memorial University's Strategic Framework for Indigenization please visit the Office of Indigenous Affairs.

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The Future Ocean and Coastal Infrastructures (FOCI) project is administered in partnership by Memorial University’s St. John’s and Grenfell Campuses.

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Research funding was provided by the Ocean Frontier Institute, through an award from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund.

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