Jennifer Charney and Suzuette Soomai hold positions as Information Managers with the newly launched Marine Piracy project at Dalhousie University. This project, led by Dr Lucia Fanning of the Marine Affairs Program, includes three research teams investigating operational, socio-economic and governance factors that relate to piracy internationally. The fourth team, led by Dr Fiona Black in the School of Information Management, is responsible for information and knowledge management for the project. Jen Charney, with a strong background in information organization generally and geographic information science in particular, is contributing expertise in Web design, online community development and GIS; Suzuette Soomai, an interdisciplinary researcher with special expertise in coastal areas, is taking the lead in database design, content analysis and thesaurus development. Both students’ roles are central to the success of the project, contributing research for setting the intellectual boundaries of the project, and offering expert guidance about research methods, information ethics and knowledge management generally.