Melissa Marschke is a professor at the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her training is in human-environment relations, with an emphasis on labour, social-ecological change, and resource governance. Current research projects include: (a) changing work at sea (improving working conditions across the seafood sector), (b) just seafood (examining the importance of forage fish; considering the potential of due diligence policies), and (c) unpacking livelihood precarity in the sand system.