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Aquaculture, or fish farming, supplies over 20% of the seafood we eat and is expected to produce up to 50% of
our seafood by 2025. On Wed., March 19, for the next event in the ongoing HARBOR BRANCH Ocean Science Lecture
Series, Dr. Megan Davis, director of the institution's Aquaculture Division, and Mr. Kenneth Riley, director
of HARBOR BRANCH Aquaculture Education, will be taking attendees on a unique journey into the aquaculture field.
The virtual trip will reveal a fish-eye view of life at an aquaculture facility from egg to market, and a day in
the life of a fish culturist working in HARBOR BRANCH's world-class aquaculture facilities. The talk will also
cover recent aquaculture advances from HARBOR BRANCH, including work in conjunction with the US Dept. of Agriculture
to develop novel techniques to grow marine fish in water with low salt concentrations.
Dr. Megan Davis has worked in aquaculture for 20 years. She co-founded a conch farm in the Turks and Caicos Islands and, in her current position at HARBOR BRANCH, supervises education, training and research programs for conch, lobsters, flounder and sustainable aquaculture systems. She received her Ph.D. in biology from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1998. Mr. Kenneth Riley, who has studied the management, genetics and growth of freshwater and marine finfish, currently is responsible for teaching and developing course materials for aquaculture training workshops, specialized short courses, and community college classes taught at HARBOR BRANCH's Aquaculture Center for Training, Education and Demonstration. The aquaculture presentation will be given at both 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. on Wed., March 19, at the main auditorium of the Johnson Education Center at HARBOR BRANCH Oceanographic Institution, 5600 U.S. 1 North, Fort Pierce, FL. The talk is free to the public. For more information, please contact the Marine Education Office at 772-465-2400, ext. 506, or email education@hboi.edu. FULL SCHEDULE FOR 2003 OCEAN SCIENCE LECTURE SERIES: January 8 - Shirley Pomponi & Don Liberatore - Submersible Science at Harbor Branch: Looking from the Inside Out January 15 - John Tucker - Marine Foodfish Culture and Stocking January 22 - Edie Widder - Bioluminescent Oddities and Wonders January 29 - Ned Smith - What Goes Around Comes Around: The Gulf Stream and the Circulation of the North Atlantic Ocean February 5 - Greg Bossart - Emerging Diseases in Marine Mammals: Should "Flipper" Be Worried? February 12 - Tammy Frank - Lifestyles of the Very Hot, the Very Cold and the Very Deep: How Do They Survive There? February 19 - Clay Cook - "Hunger Makes Strange Bedfellows": Symbiosis of Algae with Corals, Sea Anemones and other Marine Organisms February 26 - Joe Lopez - The World as a Classroom: Molecular Studies of Marine Biodiversity in the Field March 5 - Lee Frey - Robot Explorers: A Look at Unmanned Underwater Vehicles March 12 - Amy Wright - DBMR: The Deep Sea-Link to Drug Discovery March 19 - Megan Davis & Ken Riley - A Fish Eye's View of Aquaculture March 26 - Dennis Hanisak - "The Gleaming Indian River with Its Waves of Blue": Poetic License or Remembrances of Things Past? (Kermit Returns) HARBOR BRANCH Oceanographic Institution, Inc., is one of the world's leading nonprofit oceanographic research organizations dedicated to exploration of the earth's oceans, estuaries and coastal regions for the benefit of humankind. CONTACTS: Mark Schrope - Science Writer 772-465-2400 x433) • schrope@hboi.edu Jan Petri - Government and Public Relations 772-465-2400 x241 • petri@hboi.edu |