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John Virdin
Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Division of Marine Science and Conservation
Marine Science and Conservation
john.virdin@duke.edu
Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Grants
GCR: The other plastic problem: quantifying and predicting impacts of plastic additives across levels of biological and social organization
Research
Co Investigator ·
Awarded by National Science Foundation ·
2024 - 2029
Research to Secure a Safe Place for Small Scale Fisheries in an Increasingly Crowded Ocean Year 2
Research
Co-Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Global Fishing Watch ·
2023 - 2026
Conservation and Food Security Impacts of Large- and Small-Scale Fisheries Interactions
Fellowship
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Society for Conservation Biology ·
2022 - 2025
Social cost of plastic pollution
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Natural Resources Defense Council ·
2025 - 2025
Duke University Research and Training Support for Implementation of the Pew Plastic Pollution Strategy
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Pew Charitable Trusts ·
2022 - 2025
Facilitating Small-Scale Fisheries Science and Governance
Research
Director ·
Awarded by Oak Foundation ·
2021 - 2024
A review of approaches to allocating shared resources
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by The Ocean Foundation ·
2023 - 2024
Ocean Superstars - UN Global Compact
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by United Nations Global Compact ·
2023 - 2024
Plastic demand reduction literature review
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by ClimateWorks ·
2023 - 2024
Illuminating Hidden Harvests global database
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ·
2023 - 2023
Securing a Safe Space for Small-Scale Fisheries: Research on Preferential Access Areas (¿Inshore Exclusion Zones¿)
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Minderoo Foundation ·
2022 - 2023
Securing a Safe Space for Small-Scale Fisheries: Research on Preferential Access Areas (Inshore Exclusion Zones)
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Oceans 5 ·
2022 - 2023
UNDP OCEAN INNOVATION CHALLENGE
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by United Nations Development Programme ·
2022 - 2023
Jobs Learning Engagement for Two Subsectors
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by World Bank ·
2021 - 2022
Global Map and Database of Small-Scale Fisheries Inshore Exclusive Zones (IEZ)
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Swiss Philanthropy Foundation ·
2021 - 2022
A Global Assessment of trawling within territorial seas
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Oceans 5 ·
2021 - 2021
Analysis of Voluntary Corporate Commitments to reduce Plastic Pollution
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Pew Charitable Trusts ·
2020 - 2021
Common Seas Project
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Common Seas ·
2021 - 2021
Improving North Carolina¿s Resilience to Coastal Riverine Flooding
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill ·
2019 - 2021
Kenya-Tanzania Blue Economy
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Middlebury Institute of International Studies ·
2019 - 2021
Amendment: ResilienSEA Seagrass Project
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by GRID-Arendal ·
2020 - 2020
Marshall Islands Growth Study
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by World Bank ·
2019 - 2020
Global Public Policy Analysis for Reducing Ocean Plastics Pollution
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Pew Charitable Trusts ·
2019 - 2020
Food and Nutrition Security Through Sustainable Seafood
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Environmental Defense Fund ·
2018 - 2019
Local Community Mangrove Ecosystem Goods and Services (EGS) Valuation Study (Guyana and Suriname)
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Conservation International ·
2019 - 2019
Sustainable Fishery Definition - Indicators
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by World Wildlife Fund ·
2019 - 2019
Coral Reef Governance and Policy Analysis
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by United Nations Environment Programme ·
2018 - 2018
Fisheries Forum Support
Public Service
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by New England Fishery Management Council ·
2018 - 2018
Outreach and Stakeholder Feedback Collection and Analysis in support of NEFMC's Program Operations Review
Public Service
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by New England Fishery Management Council ·
2017 - 2018
Advising for Rare-National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) of the Philippines Study
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Rare ·
2017 - 2018
Developing a cost-effective strategy to scale up reform of small scale fisheries
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by World Wildlife Fund ·
2017 - 2018
Hidden Harvests 2 Study Next Steps
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ·
2017 - 2017
A Background Paper on a Hidden Harvests 2 Study
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ·
2017 - 2017
Small Scale Fisheries Assessment
Research
Co-Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Oak Foundation ·
2016 - 2017
Ecosystem Services Reference Studies
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by GRID-Arendal ·
2017 - 2017
Consultancy for Trade in Fishing Services (TIFS) training materials
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by World Bank ·
2016 - 2017
Longline Study
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by Environmental Defense Fund ·
2016 - 2016
Fisheries Consultancy
Public Service
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by World Bank ·
2015 - 2016
Blue Carbon West Africa
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by GRID-Arendal ·
2015 - 2016
Report on the State of the Caribbean's Blue Economy
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by World Bank ·
2016 - 2016
World Bank Pacific Islands Regional Oceanscape Program and West Africa Regional Fishery Program support
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by World Bank ·
2015 - 2016
Assessing North Carolina's Blue Economy
Research
Principal Investigator ·
Awarded by North Carolina State University ·
2015 - 2016
