Suzuette S. Soomai is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Environmental Information: Use and Influence research program (EIUI) at Dalhousie University. Her dissertation examined fisheries information use in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. She holds a BSc (Hons) (Biology) and an MPhil (Zoology) from the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, and a Master of Marine Management and PhD from Dalhousie University. As a government fisheries scientist in the Caribbean, she obtained extensive experience in tropical fisheries stock assessment and in communicating fisheries scientific advice to policy-makers and to the fishing industry. As a member of EIUI, Dr. Soomai completed case studies on the awareness, use, and influence of marine environmental science reports in policy-making contexts in Nova Scotia and the Gulf of Maine-Bay of Fundy region.