Barry Costa-Pierce to speak at AAAS annual meeting on sustainability of marine aquaculture operations

Barry Costa-Pierce, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Marine Sciences, director of the Marine Science Education and Research Center, and director of the Center for Land-Sea Interactions, has been invited to speak at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting, which will be held February 14-18, 2013, in Boston.

Costa-Pierce’s talk, "A Framework for Assessing Sustainability of Marine Aquaculture Operations," will be part of the session titled “What is Science’s Role in Developing Aquaculture as a Sustainable Use of the Ocean?â€

Costa-Pierce is a Fellow of the AAAS.
 

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