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Barry A Costa-Pierce
Professor of Fisheries and Aquaculture
Director, Rhode Island Sea Grant
RI Sea Grant HQ Offices, Ocean Technology Center
bcp@gso.uri.edu
401-874-6800
http://seagrant.gso.uri.edu
Degree Program: PhD

Educational Background

Ph.D.
M.S.
B.A.
 University of Hawaii
University of Vermont
Drew University
 1984
1980
1976

Areas of Specialization

Research

Ecological aquaculture (the transdisciplinary - science to management) of ecologically designed aquatic food/water/energy systems, including investigations of their social ecologies (anthropologies,ecohistories and the roles of aquatic foods in societies); Cage aquaculture systems with an emphasis on their interactions with marine and large lake ecosystems, with a special interest in the ecological interactions of culturing aquatic animals with low/no feeds, using biofloc and detrital microbial technologies, and developing bi-culture cage systems.

Teaching

Ecological Aquaculture, http://www.ecologicalaquaculture.org

Outreach

2008—Chair Elect of the Board of Directors, Aquaculture without Frontiers (USA, UK) 2008—Member, External Relations Commmittee, Sea Grant Association 2006— Advisory Council, NOAA HBCU Diversity Initiative (NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center), University of Maryland Eastern Shore 2001—URI Delegate to the National Sea Grant Association 1999— International Editor (Aquaculture Production Science) for Aquaculture (Elsevier Science)

Students

Kifle Hagos
 Ph.D.
 current

Publications:

2012, in press. Costa-Pierce, B.A. (ed.) Ocean Farming and Sustainable Aquaculture Science and Technology, In: Robert A. Meyers, Editor in Chief, Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer Science, N.Y.

2012, in press. Costa-Pierce, B.A. et al. Responsible use of resources for sustainable aquaculture. Proceedings of the Global Conference on Aquaculture 2010, Phuket, Thailand. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy. 

2011. Byron, C., D. Bengtson, B. Costa-Pierce, and J. Calanni. Integrating science into management: ecological carrying capacity of bivalve shellfish aquaculture. Marine Policy 35: 363-370.

2011. Byron, C., J. Link, B. Costa-Pierce, D. Bengtson. Modeling ecological carrying capacity of shellfish aquaculture in highly flushed temperate lagoons. Aquaculture 314: 87-99.

2011. Byron, C., J. Link, B. Costa-Pierce, D. Bengtson. Calculating ecological carrying capacity of shellfish aquaculture using mass-balance modeling: Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Ecological Modeling 222: 1743-1755.

 

 

Presentations:

2011: Invited Speaker, The Future of Aquaculture, Department of Fisheries & Oceans (DFO) Senior Leadership Retreat, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, December 7-8, 2011

2011: Distinguished Visiting Professor, Universidade Estadual Paulista ―Júlio De Mesquita Filho (Sao Paulo State University), Centro do Aqüicultura da Unesp – CAUNESP, Jaboticabal, São Paulo, Brazil. Taught Graduate Course in Ecological Aquaculture in Mestrado e Doutorado do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Aqüicultura, 2 credits, 30 hours. http://caunesp.unesp.br (Host was Professor Dr. Wagner Valenti, UNESP)

2011: Invited Speaker, The World Seafood Congress, Washington, DC.

2011: Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Marine Resources and Beyond, Institute for Marine Resources Gmbh, Bremerhaven, Germany

2011: Invited Speaker, National Land Grant/Sea Grant Water Conference, USDA and National Sea Grant College Program, Washington, D.C.

2010: Invited Speaker, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations: FAO Expert Workshop on Aquaculture Site Selection and Carrying Capacity Estimates for Inland and Coastal Waterbodies. Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling, U.K.

2010: Invited Speaker, FAO: FAO Global Conference on Aquaculture, Phuket, Thailand

2010: Invited Speaker, Texas A&M University: Sustainable Aquaculture and the New University Center of Excellence, Houston, Texas.


History

Member for
5 years 27 weeks