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There is a growing awareness that the dynamic needs of science and society are often complex and interdependent and that there is a need to work with and across diverse expertise and practices in order to create the development of new methods and to provide innovative solutions to socially relevant work. Thus, we call collaborative research efforts into action. Maine’s Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network (SEANET) is such an endeavor, as it is a collaborative effort traversing a nexus of complex, dynamic challenges in Maine, including issues related to socio-economic shifts, climate change, and declining capture fisheries. While SEANET’s plan to incorporate a collaborative approach aims to achieve an inspiring, sustainable end-goal it provides only a high-level map for how to get there, and includes few explicit directions. Following the need to better understand such an effort, this thesis considers the …