Barry Costa-Pierce wins National Sea Grant Award, speaks on ā€˜Ecological Aquaculture,ā€™ and publishes global declaration

Chair of Marine Sciences and Director of the Marine Science Education and Research Center Barry Costa-Pierce, Ph.D. FAAAS, recently received the National Sea Grant Association Presidentā€™s Award for 2012 ā€œfor his leadership of the Rhode Island Sea Grant College Program and his pioneering work in the fields of fisheries, aquaculture and healthy coastal ecosystems for the Sea Grant network.ā€

On December 7th, Costa-Pierce was the invited speaker at the School of Marine Science, University of Maine, Orono, where he gave a lecture titled ā€œEcological Aquaculture: The Evolution of the Blue Revolution.ā€ The lecture was delivered on site, and by Polycom to University of Maine marine science sites in Walpole, Franklin and Portland.

Costa-Pierce, along with three co-authors, recently published their global declaration on the future of offshore aquaculture, which was endorsed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations at a recent meeting in Turkey.
 

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