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John Virdin

Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Division of Marine Science and Conservation
Marine Science and Conservation
Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Grants


Conservation and Food Security Impacts of Large- and Small-Scale Fisheries Interactions

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Society for Conservation Biology · 2022 - 2025

Duke University Research and Training Support for Implementation of the Pew Plastic Pollution Strategy

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Pew Charitable Trusts · 2022 - 2025

Research to Secure a Safe Place for Small Scale Fisheries in an increasingly Crowded Ocean

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Global Fishing Watch · 2023 - 2024

Facilitating Small-Scale Fisheries Science and Governance

ResearchDirector · Awarded by Oak Foundation · 2021 - 2024

A review of approaches to allocating shared resources

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by The Ocean Foundation · 2023 - 2024

Ocean Superstars - UN Global Compact

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by United Nations Global Compact · 2023 - 2024

Plastic demand reduction literature review

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by ClimateWorks · 2023 - 2024

Illuminating Hidden Harvests global database

ResearchPrincipal 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¿)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Minderoo Foundation · 2022 - 2023

UNDP OCEAN INNOVATION CHALLENGE

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by United Nations Development Programme · 2022 - 2023

Jobs Learning Engagement for Two Subsectors

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by World Bank · 2021 - 2022

Global Map and Database of Small-Scale Fisheries Inshore Exclusive Zones (IEZ)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Swiss Philanthropy Foundation · 2021 - 2022

A Global Assessment of trawling within territorial seas

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Oceans 5 · 2021 - 2021

Analysis of Voluntary Corporate Commitments to reduce Plastic Pollution

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Pew Charitable Trusts · 2020 - 2021

Common Seas Project

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Common Seas · 2021 - 2021

Improving North Carolina¿s Resilience to Coastal Riverine Flooding

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2019 - 2021

Kenya-Tanzania Blue Economy

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Middlebury Institute of International Studies · 2019 - 2021

Amendment: ResilienSEA Seagrass Project

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by GRID-Arendal · 2020 - 2020

Marshall Islands Growth Study

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by World Bank · 2019 - 2020

Global Public Policy Analysis for Reducing Ocean Plastics Pollution

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Pew Charitable Trusts · 2019 - 2020

Food and Nutrition Security Through Sustainable Seafood

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Environmental Defense Fund · 2018 - 2019

Local Community Mangrove Ecosystem Goods and Services (EGS) Valuation Study (Guyana and Suriname)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Conservation International · 2019 - 2019

Sustainable Fishery Definition - Indicators

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by World Wildlife Fund · 2019 - 2019

Coral Reef Governance and Policy Analysis

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by United Nations Environment Programme · 2018 - 2018

Fisheries Forum Support

Public ServicePrincipal 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 ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by New England Fishery Management Council · 2017 - 2018

Advising for Rare-National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) of the Philippines Study

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Rare · 2017 - 2018

Developing a cost-effective strategy to scale up reform of small scale fisheries

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by World Wildlife Fund · 2017 - 2018

Hidden Harvests 2 Study Next Steps

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations · 2017 - 2017

A Background Paper on a Hidden Harvests 2 Study

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations · 2017 - 2017

Small Scale Fisheries Assessment

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Oak Foundation · 2016 - 2017

Ecosystem Services Reference Studies

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by GRID-Arendal · 2017 - 2017

Consultancy for Trade in Fishing Services (TIFS) training materials

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by World Bank · 2016 - 2017

Longline Study

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Environmental Defense Fund · 2016 - 2016

Fisheries Consultancy

Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by World Bank · 2015 - 2016

Blue Carbon West Africa

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by GRID-Arendal · 2015 - 2016

Report on the State of the Caribbean's Blue Economy

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by World Bank · 2016 - 2016

World Bank Pacific Islands Regional Oceanscape Program and West Africa Regional Fishery Program support

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by World Bank · 2015 - 2016

Assessing North Carolina's Blue Economy

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina State University · 2015 - 2016

External Relationships


  • Global Environmental Leaders Program, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

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