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Perez Agundez, J., Filgueira, R., Ahmed, N., Asif, F., Billing, S.L., Fanning, L., Himes-Cornell, A., Johnson, T.R., Krause, G., Kreiss, C., Mikkelsen, E., Stead, S.M., van den Burg, S., Vecchio, Y., & Villasante, S. (2025). Strengthening policy action to tackle social acceptability issues in European aquaculture. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 82(7), https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaf100
Bingham, J.A., Miller, E., Ruscetta, L., Taufiq, H.A., Stelmach, G., Firestone, J., Johnson, T.R., Hazboun, S., & Boudet, H. (2025). Understanding the Roles, Limits, and Best Practices for Community Benefit Agreements in U.S. Offshore Wind Development. Ocean & Coastal Management, 268:107769. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2025.107769
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). . 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鈥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). . 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,
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鈥檚 sea urchin fishery. International Journal of the Commons, 13(1): 276鈥302, doi:
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.), , 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, .
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). 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.
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 鈥榝air winds and following seas鈥?: 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鈥 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). 鈥淕earing up for improved collaboration: The potentials and limits of cooperative research for incorporating fishermen鈥檚 knowledge.鈥 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.