Throughout the years, Lenfest Ocean Program staff have written about our approach to linking science with management and policy. Our hope is these materials start a conversation about the field of boundary spanning, how other organizations and individuals can learn from us, and how we can learn from them.

Papers Authored by Lenfest Ocean Program Staff

• Enabling Usable Science Takes a Community: Using our Roles as Funders to Catalyze Change Ripple KJ, Hudson C, Knight E, Landrum JP, Bell V, Close SL (2024) Enabling usable science takes a community: Using our roles as funders to catalyze change. PLoS Biol 22(6): e3002675. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002675
• Telling Stories to Understand Research Impact: Narratives from the Lenfest Ocean Program Hudson, C. G., Knight, E., Close, S. L., Landrum, J. P., Bednarek, A., & Shouse, B. (2022). Telling stories to understand research impact: Narratives from the Lenfest Ocean Program. ICES Journal of Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsac169
• Lessons from Bright-Spots for Advancing Knowledge Exchange at the Interface of Marine Science and Policy Karcher, D. B., Cvitanovic, C., van Putten, I. E., Colvin, R. M., Armitage, D., Aswani, S., Ballesteros, M., Ban, N. C., Barragán-Paladines, M. J., Bednarek, A., Bell, J. D., Brooks, C. M., Daw, T. M., de la Cruz-Modino, R., Francis, T. B., Fulton, E. A., Hobday, A. J., Holcer, D., Hudson, C., … Zhang, J. (2022). Lessons from bright-spots for advancing knowledge exchange at the interface of Marine Science and policy. Journal of Environmental Management, 314, 114994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114994
• Grant-Marking Criteria for Developing Useful and Usable Marine Science: A Philanthropic Perspective Landrum, J. P., Hudson, C. G., Close, S. L., Knight, E., Paquin, R.-M., Bell, V., & Ripple, K. (2022). Grant-making criteria for developing useful and usable marine science: A philanthropic perspective. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.809953
• Science-Policy Intermediaries from a Practitioner’s Perspective: The Lenfest Ocean Program Experience Bednarek, A. T., Shouse, B., Hudson, C. G., & Goldburg, R. (2015). Science-policy intermediaries from a practitioner’s perspective: The Lenfest Ocean Program experience. Science and Public Policy, 43(2), 291–300. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scv008
• The Certainty of Uncertainty in Marine Conservation and What to Do About It Bednarek, A. T., Cooper, A. B., Cresswell, K. A., Mangel, M., Satterthwaite, W. H., Simpfendorfer, C. A., & Wiedenmann, J. R. (2011). The certainty of uncertainty in marine conservation and what to do about it. Bulletin of Marine Science, 87(2), 177–195. https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2010.1060

Materials that Reference the Lenfest Ocean Program

• A Global Movement for Engaged Research Bednarek, Angela, and Vivian Tseng. “A Global Movement for Engaged Research.” Issues in Science and Technology 38, no. 3 (Spring 2022): 53–56.
• Ten Considerations for Research Funders Seeking to Enhance Knowledge Exchange and the Impact of Marine Science on Policy and Practice Cvitanovic, C., Wyborn, C., Glenn, E., Kelly, R., Louder, E., van Putten, E. I., & Bednarek, A. (2021). Ten considerations for research funders seeking to enhance knowledge exchange and the impact of marine science on policy and Practice. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.704495
• Collaborative Research in a Virtual World: Implications of COVID-19 for the Co-Production of Environmental Knowledge and Solutions Arnott, J., Russell, P., Bath, S., Bednarek, A., Combest-Friedman, C., Fisher, L., George, D., Hudson, C., Maillard, L., Moser, S., Read, J., Seiztzinger, S., Soberal, N., Teicher, H., & Zycherman, A. (2020). Collaborative Research in a virtual world: Implications of COVID-19 for the co-production of Environmental Knowledge and Solutions. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3755008
• Understanding the Impacts of Research Synthesis Wyborn, C., Louder, E., Harrison, J., Montambault, J., Montana, J., Ryan, M., Bednarek, A., Nesshöver, C., Pullin, A., Reed, M., Dellecker, E., Kramer, J., Boyd, J., Dellecker, A., & Hutton, J. (2018). Understanding the impacts of research synthesis. Environmental Science & Policy, 86, 72–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2018.04.013
• Boundary Spanning at the Science–Policy Interface: The Practitioners’ Perspectives Bednarek, A. T., Wyborn, C., Cvitanovic, C., Meyer, R., Colvin, R. M., Addison, P. F., Close, S. L., Curran, K., Farooque, M., Goldman, E., Hart, D., Mannix, H., McGreavy, B., Parris, A., Posner, S., Robinson, C., Ryan, M., & Leith, P. (2018). Boundary spanning at the science–policy interface: The Practitioners’ Perspectives. Sustainability Science, 13(4), 1175–1183. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0550-9