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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 UNE’s Marine Science Center, attended the Elsevier Science Conference on “Cutting Edge Science in Aquaculture,” 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 “The Environmental/Social Nexus of Sustainable Aquaculture” and also gave an invited talk on “Ecological Aquaculture: A New/Old Area of Global Applied Scholarship.”

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 “Research Innovations on Aquaculture’s Interactions with the Environment.”

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 “An integrated ecological-economic modeling framework for the sustainable management of oyster farming.”

Papers presented at the conference will be internationally peer reviewed and published as special science volumes by Elsevier Science in 2016-17.

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