Barry Costa-Pierce featured in Press Herald photo with 18-volume sustainability encyclopedia

Barry Costa-Pierce, Ph.D., UNE Doherty Professor and director of the UNE Marine Science Center, was featured in a photo in the Portland Press Herald on Dec. 1, 2012. The photo shows Costa-Pierce sitting behind two stacks of the 18-volume Springer Science’s Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, which Costa-Pierce worked on for the past three years.

The encyclopedia is a monumental work of 12,555 pages produced by approximately 1,000 scientists and peer reviewers, available in bound volumes and on a searchable web interface. Costa-Pierce wrote four chapters in the volume he edited on Ocean Farming and Sustainable Aquaculture Science and Technology. See the Press Herald photo and read more about encyclopedia.

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