Barry Costa-Pierce presents keynote at Global Aquaculture Science Conference in France
Barry Costa-Pierce, Henry L. & Grace Doherty Professor and chair of Marine Sciences and director of 色香视频鈥檚 Marine Science Center, attended the Elsevier Science Conference on 鈥淐utting Edge Science in Aquaculture,鈥 held August 23-26, 2015, at the Le Corum Centre in Montpellier, France.
Costa-Pierce presented a keynote talk with his co-author Professor Peter Edwards of the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, on 鈥淭he Environmental/Social Nexus of Sustainable Aquaculture鈥 and also gave an invited talk on 鈥淓cological Aquaculture: A New/Old Area of Global Applied Scholarship.鈥
Costa-Pierce served on the International Scientific Organizing Committee for the conference that welcomed 300 scientists from 57 countries and was chair of the session on 鈥淩esearch Innovations on Aquaculture鈥檚 Interactions with the Environment.鈥
He also facilitated a poster developed from research by Carrie Byron, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Marine Sciences, and her co-authors for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Rhode Island on 鈥淎n integrated ecological-economic modeling framework for the sustainable management of oyster farming.鈥
Papers presented at the conference will be internationally peer reviewed and published as special science volumes by Elsevier Science in 2016-17.