Professor, Biology
     Director, Acadia Tidal Energy Institute (ATEI)

     Contact
     Email: anna.redden@acadiau.ca
     Phone: 1-902-585-1732
     Office: Patterson Hall, Room 507

Bio

Dr. Anna Redden is a marine ecologist and professor in Biology, with degrees from Acadia University (BScHon, MSc) and Memorial University (PhD). Her postdoctoral work was conducted in Australia, after which she was appointed to a faculty position at Newcastle University in New South Wales, Australia. She returned to Nova Scotia and to Acadia University in 2005 to the positions of Associate Professor in Biology and Director of the Acadia Centre for Estuarine Research. Dr. Redden served as Dean (and then Associate Vice-President) of Research, Innovation and Graduate Studies from 2017-2023.

Anna has over 35 years of research experience working on a broad range of environmental issues and effects monitoring in coastal waters. This includes environmental studies at the former Tidal Power Generating Plant in Annapolis Royal, and research with tidal energy project developers in high flow passages in the Bay of Fundy. Anna’s activities with collaborators and students at Acadia have largely focused on understanding how marine fish and other animals utilize high flow, tidal environments.

Dr. Redden was the co-founder and co-executive chair of the Fundy Energy Research Network (FERN), established in 2010 to assist the province, FORCE, the emerging tidal energy industry and the research community in working collaboratively to address a range of environmental, engineering and socio-economic needs and challenges. In 2011, she co-founded the Acadia Tidal Energy Institute and has served as Director or co-Director since that time. She previously served as a founding Director on the Board of the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE; 2009-2016) and as a Director on the Board of the Offshore Energy Research Association of Nova Scotia (2017-2022).

Research Areas

Marine Ecology & Effects Monitoring