Barry Costa-Pierce wins National Sea Grant Award, speaks on ‘Ecological Aquaculture,’ 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 President’s Award for 2012 “for 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.”

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 “Ecological Aquaculture: The Evolution of the Blue Revolution.” 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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