Research: Select Publications
Pugh, K., T. Johnson, L. Silka, & N. Dixon. (2025). Transdisciplinarity as strategy: lessons from the Maine aquaculture industry, USA. Knowledge Management for Development Journal 18(2): 7-29.
Cleaver, C., Johnson, T.R., & Hanes, S. P. (2024). Challenges and opportunities for integrating aquaculture with commercial fishing in Maine. Marine Policy, 170, 106407. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106407
Johnson, T.R., & Veo, J. (2023). Aquaculture in Shared Waters: Lessons for Diverse and Inclusive Workforce Training. Maine Policy Review, 32(2): 165 -169, https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mpr/vol32/iss2/28.
Pugh, K., Musavi, M., Johnson, T., Burke, C., Yoeli, E., Currie, E., & Pugh, B. (2023). Neural nets for sustainability conversations: modeling discussion disciplines and their impacts. Neural Computing & Applications 35, 21935–21947 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-023-08819-z
Johnson, T.R. & Hanes, S.P. (2022). Conflicts and Communities: Marine Aquaculture and the Blue Economy. In Morrissey. J.E., D, Germond-Duret, and C.P. Heidkamp (eds.), In Blue Economy: People and Regions in Transition. Routledge.
Yuan, 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, 134, 102502, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102502
Johnson, T.R. (2020). Reflecting on Maine’s changing productive coastal region. Maine Policy Review, 29(2):91-97, https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mpr/vol29/iss2/12/
Mazur, M. D., & Johnson, T. R. (2020). Effects of increases in fishery resource abundance on conservation compliance. Marine policy, 122: 104271, doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104217
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. (2021). Resilience of cold water aquaculture: A review of likely scenarios as climate changes in the Gulf of Maine. Reviews in Aquaculture, 13(1):460-503, https://doi.org/10.1111/raq.12483
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, doi:10.3390/su11092522
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): 276–302, doi: http://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.866
Johnson, T.R. & Hanes, S.P. (2019). Considering social carrying capacity in the context of sustainable ecological aquaculture. In Morrissey. 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, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.01.007.
Thompson, C., Johnson, T.R., Hanes, S.P. (2016). Vulnerability of fishing communities undergoing gentrification. Journal of Rural Studies, 45:165-174.
Johnson, T.R., K. Athearn, S. Randall, M. Garland, K. Ross, K. Cline, C. Peterson, R. Alden, & C. Guenther. (2015). Profiles of sixteen eastern Maine fishing communities. Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station Miscellaneous Report 446. (refereed)
Hart, D., Bell, K., Lindenfeld, L., Johnson, T. R., Ranco, D. (2015). Strengthening the role of universities in addressing sustainability challenges: The Sustainability Solutions Initiative as an institutional experiment. Ecology and Society, 20(2):4. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-07283-200204
Henry, A.M., & Johnson, T.R. (2015). Understanding social resilience in the Maine lobster industry. Marine and Coastal Fisheries. 7(1):33-43., https://doi.org/10.1080/19425120.2014.984086
Teisl, M., McCoy, S., Marrinan, S., Noblet, C.L., Johnson, T., Wibberly, M., Roper, R., & Klein, S. (2015). Will offshore energy face ‘fair winds and following seas’?: Understanding the factors influencing marine energy acceptance. Estuaries and Coasts, 38(S1):279-286.
Jansujwicz, J.S., Johnson, T.R. (2015). The Maine Tidal Power Initiative: Transdisciplinary sustainability science research for the responsible development of tidal power. Sustainability Science, doi: 10.1007/s11625-014-0263-7.
Johnson, T.R., Henry, A., Thompson, C. (2014). Identifying qualitative indicators of social resilience in small-scale fishing communities: An emphasis on perceptions and practice. Human Ecology Review, 20(2):97-115
Johnson, T.R., Jansujwicz, J., & Zydlewski, G. (2013). Tidal power development in Maine: Stakeholder identification and perceptions of engagement. Estuaries and Coasts, 38(S1):266-278.
Jansujwicz, J.S., & Johnson, T.R. (2013). Understanding and informing permitting decisions for tidal power development in Maine. Estuaries and Coasts, 38(S1):253-265.
Wilson, J., Acheson, J., & Johnson, T. (2013). The cost of useful knowledge and collective action in three fisheries. Ecological Economics, 96:165-172.
Johnson, T.R., Wilson, J.A., Cleaver, C., Morehead, G., & Vadas, R. (2013). Modeling fine scale urchin-kelp dynamics: Implications for fisheries management. Fisheries Research, 141:107-117.
Johnson, T.R., & McCay, B.J. (2012). Trading expertise: The rise and demise of an industry/government committee on survey trawl design. Maritime Studies, 11:14, doi:10.1186/2212-9790-11-14
Johnson, T.R., Wilson, J.A., Cleaver, C., & Vadas, R. (2012). Social-ecological scale mismatches and the collapse of the Maine sea urchin fishery. Ecology and Society, 17 (2):15. doi:10.5751/ES-04767-170215
Johnson, T., & Zydlewski, G.B. (2012). Research for the sustainable development of tidal power in Maine. Maine Policy Review, 21 (1):58-64.
Murray, G., Johnson, T.R., McCay, B.J., Danko, M., St. Martin, K., & Takahashi, S. (2010). Cumulative effects, creeping enclosure, and the marine commons of New Jersey. International Journal of the Commons, 4 (1):367-389.
Johnson, T.R. (2010). Cooperative research and knowledge flow in the marine commons. International Journal of the Commons, 4 (1):251-272.
Johnson, T.R. (2008). Fishers’ knowledge in fisheries science and management, Fish and Fisheries, 9 (1):118
St. Martin, K., McCay, B., Murray, G., Johnson, T.R., & Oles, B. (2007). Communities, knowledge, and fisheries of the future. International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 7 (3): 221-239
Johnson, T.R., & van Densen, W.L.T. (2007). Benefits and organization of cooperative research. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 64 (4):862-840.
McCay, B.J., Johnson, T.R., St. Martin, K., & Wilson, D.C. (2006). “Gearing up for improved collaboration: The potentials and limits of cooperative research for incorporating fishermen’s knowledge.” Pages 111-115 in A.N. Read and T.W. Hartley, editors. Partnerships for a Common Purpose: Cooperative Fisheries Research and Management. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.