Barry A. Costa-Pierce
Office Phone: (401) 874-6800
Office Cell: (401) 474-2349
bcp@gso.uri.edu
Environmental impacts of aquaculture esp. impacts on pelagic ecosystems; Sustainability science (interdisciplinary science to management) of capture fisheries systems in both developed and developing nations; Ecological Aquaculture esp. ecological engineering of “aquaculture ecosystems” on land, in marine nearshore & “offshore” environments; Social ecology of aquaculture; Ecology of offshore windfarms esp. ecosystems-based management & multi-spatial planning, impacts on fisheries, ecological engineering/integration of marine aquaculture & fisheries in windfarms
Education
1984. Ph.D. Oceanography,
University of Hawaii
1980. M.S.
Zoology, University of Vermont
1976. B.A.
Zoology, Drew University (Madison, New Jersey)
Professional Training
1974. Undergraduate Fellowship,
Shoals Marine Laboratory, Cornell University/University of New Hampshire
1975. Marine Science Semester,
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami
1975. Summer Student Fellowship,
University
of Michigan Douglas Lake Biological Station, University of Michigan
1976. January Program
Student Fellowship, Program in Marine Ecology, Marine Biological Laboratory,
Woods Hole, Mass.
1976 Semester
in Science Fellowship, Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Current Professional Positions
2001— Director, NOAA/Rhode Island Sea Grant College Program and Professor of Fisheries & Aquaculture with tenure, University of Rhode Island (URI) Department of Fisheries, Animal & Veterinary Science
Other Professional Position
1999— Editor, Husbandry & Mangement Section, Aquaculture (Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Current Research & Outreach Projects: Integration of offshore renewable energy and marine aquaculture systems; Ecosystem approaches to marine aquaculture; Nutrient discharges and the carrying capacities of aquaculture systems (finfish, shellfish); Rish assessment and risk communication for coastal aquaculture systems; Ecological aquaculture for local food production on smallholder farms in New England; Capture-based tuna aquaculture
Current Professional Service (professional societies)
2008—Member, External Relations
Commmittee, Sea Grant Association
2008— Member,
Committee on Best Practices for Shellfish Aquaculture and the Effects of
Commercial Activities in Drakes Estero, Point Reyes National Seashore,
California, Ocean Studies Board, National Academy of Sciences, Washington,
DC
2008— Member, NOAA Sea Grant
New York Bight Regional Ocean Science Council
2008— NOAA/National Sea Grant
Association Co-lead for the Healthy
Coastal Ecosystems Focus Team
2007— Member, NOAA Sea Grant
Gulf of Maine Regional Ocean Science Council
2007— Board of Directors,
World
Aquaculture Society
2006— World Wildlife Fund
Salmon Aquaculture Dialogue: Team Leader for International Pelagic Ecosystems
Science Review Team; Invited Science Team Member to Develop Sustainability
Indicators for Salmon Aquaculture
2006— Advisory Council, NOAA
HBCU Diversity Initiative (NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science
Center), University of Maryland Eastern Shore
2002— Executive Committee,
Rhode Island Aquaculture Initiative, RI Coastal Resources Management Council
1999— Member,
ICES
Working
Group on the Environmental Impacts of Mariculture
Past Professional Positions
2003—2008: Associate Director,
Coastal
Institute, University of Rhode Island
1998—2001: Director,
Mississippi-Alabama
Sea Grant Consortium, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, USM, Ocean Springs,
Mississippi, plus 1998—2001: Adjunct Faculty, Univ. of Southern
Mississippi. Adjunct Professor at Auburn Univ., Mississippi State Univ.,
Univ. of Alabama-Birmingham & Univ. of Mississippi
1997—1998: Student Recommended
Faculty in Global Sustainability, University of California-Irvine and Lecturer
in the Graduate School, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University
of California-San Diego
1995—1997: Visiting
Scholar, John T. Lyle Center for
Regenerative Studies, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
1993—1995: Associate Professor
of Aquatic Biology, Department of Biology, Bemidji State University (Minnesota
State Universities and Colleges), Bemidji, Minnesota, plus 1993—1995:
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, University
of Minnesota
1985—1993:International Center
for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM)—The
WorldFish Center, Manila, Philippines. ICLARM Positions -
1993: Consultant in Strategic Planning; 1989—1992: Director
and Research Scientist, ICLARM Africa Project Office, Zomba, Malawi, Africa;
1985—1989:
Associate Research Scientist & Team Leader, ICLARM-World Bank Project
Office, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia
1984—1985: Post-Doctoral
Staff Scientist, Biosystems Division, United Energy Corporation, Foster
City, California
1981—1984: Ph.D. Student
and Aquaculture Instructor,
Department
of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
1977—1980: Core Faculty,
Institute for Social Ecology and Visiting Faculty, Resident Undergraduate
Program,
Goddard College, Plainfield,
Vermont
Selected Professional Invitations/Recognitions
2009. Keynoter Speaker,
Aquaculture Canada 2009, Aquaculture Association of Canada, Nanaimo, BC,
CANADA
2008: Invited Speaker,
Simon Fraser University, CANADA
2008. Invited Speaker,
Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Systems (SEAs) Workshop, Nanaimo, BC,
CANADA
2008. Invited Speaker,
Packard Foundation, Los Altos, California
2008. Invited Participant,
Scenario Planning for Canadian Aquaculture, University of Oxford, U.K.
2008. Co-organizer,
Ecosystems Stewardship in the Americas, University of Rhode Island, USA.
2008. Invited Speaker,
Aquaculture for the Poor, Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole, Massachusetts,
USA.
2007. Invited Speaker,
Instituto Oceanographia, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Ensenada,
MEXICO
2007. Invited Speaker,
Environmental Science Program, Washington College, Maryland
2007. Invited Speaker,
Sustainable
Shrimp Forum, International Boston Seafood Show, Boston, Massachusetts
2006. Invited Speaker:
Lowell
Lecture Series, New England Aquarium, Boston, Massachusetts
2006. Keynote Speaker:
Aquaculture
Pacific Exchange, Campbell River, B.C., CANADA
2004. Keynote Speaker:
AquaVision:
The World Aquaculture Business Conference, Stavanger, NORWAY
2002. Distinguished
Lecturer: AquaNet: The Canadian Network Centre of Excellence, Moncton,
New Brunswick, CANADA
2002. Keynote Speaker,
University Public Lecture Series, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.,
USA
Selected Past Professional Service
2006-2008: Scientific Review
Panelist (three panels in 3 years), Integrative Graduate Education Research
and Training (IGERT) Program, National Science Foundation, Washington,
DC
2005—2008: Scientific
Adviser, Sustainable Seafood Forum, Aquarium of the Pacific (Long Beach,
California)
2006—2007. Vice President,
The World Aquaculture Society
2006. Member of the
National Sea Grant Review Panel Program Assessment Team (PAT) for the University
of Wisconsin Sea Grant
2003—2005. Scientific
Advisory Board, Seafood Watch Program, Monterey Bay Aquarium, California
1999—2005. Co-Chair,
National Sea Grant Ecosystems & Habitats Theme Team
2003—2004. Commissioner,
R.I. Governor D.L. Carcieri Narragansett Bay and Watershed Team
1999—2004. Associate
Editor, Journal of the World Aquaculture Society
1995—2004. Subject
Editor for Fisheries in Developing Countries, Journal of Applied Ichthyology
2003—2004. Chair, Fisheries/Aquaculture
Panel, Sustainable Partnerships for Agricultural Research and Education
(SPARE), U.S. Agency for International Development
1999—2001. Co-Chair,
EPA Research Committee, Gulf of Mexico Program, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi
1999—2000. Member of
the National Sea Grant Review Panel Program Assessment Team (PAT) for WHOI
Sea Grant and for Texas A&M University Sea Grant
1989—1992. Honorary
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Chancellor College, University
of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi, Africa
Selected Professional Awards
2006. Outstanding Service
Award, Sea Grant Association
(Secretary, Board of Directors, 2005-2007)
2005. Outstanding Service
Award, Sea Grant Association
(Chair, Program Mission Committee, 2003-2005)
2001. Exceptional Leadership
Award as Director (1998-2001), Board of Directors and Administrative Staff,
Mississippi-Alabama
Sea Grant Consortium
1998. Exceptional Impact
on Undergraduate Education, 1998 Honors Convocation. University of California-Irvine
1996. Fellow, American
Institute of Fishery Research Biologists, USA
1995. First Visiting
Scholar, John T. Lyle Center For
Regenerative Studies, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona,
California, USA
Professional Consulting
1987— Registered Staff Consultant
in Post-Evaluation, Post-Evaluation Office,
Asian
Development Bank (ADB)
Registered Staff Consultant, Agriculture
and Rural Development Department, World
Bank
Consulting Experiences in Coastal
Ocean/Large Lake Programs/Projects in Fisheries, Aquaculture, Sustainable
Agriculture in Africa (Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Ghana, Egypt);
Asia (China, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines), Latin
America/Caribbean (Bahamas, Costa Rica, Mexico) and Oceania (Fiji, Hawaii,
Federated States of Micronesia).
Field Station Experiences
1998. Summer Session
Faculty in Marine Fish Biology, Oregon
Institute of Marine Biology, University of Oregon, Charleston, Oregon
1995—1997. Visiting
Scholar, John T. Lyle Center For
Regenerative Studies, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
1995. Summer Session
Faculty in Fisheries Science, Itasca Biological Station, University of
Minnesota, Itasca, Minnesota
Selected Education and Teaching Contributions (complete resume)
2009, 2007. Ecological
Aquaculture, University of Rhode Island (visit
2009 course web site)
2004. Aquaculture &
The Environment, University of Rhode Island (co-taught with Prof. David
Bengtson)
2004. External Ph.D.
Examiner, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
2000. External Ph.D.
Examiner, University of British Columbia, Canada
1998—2001. External
Ph.D. Advisor, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
1998. Biology of Fishes,
Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, University of Oregon, Charleston, Oregon
1997. Aquaculture Research
& Development, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California-San
Diego
1997-1998. Global Sustainability,
University of California-Irvine
1997-1998. Sustainable
Oceans and Coastal Zones, University of California-Irvine
1992. External Examiner,
Department of Applied Zoology, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland
Current Graduate Students
Carrie Byron (Ph.D. NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research
Trainee [IGERT] Fellow—“Carrying Capacity Modeling for Coastal Shellfish
Aquaculture")
Kifle Hagos (Ph.D. NSF IGERT Coastal Institute Fellow – “Comparative
Life Cycle Assessments for Salmonid Hatcheries for Fisheries Enhancement
and Aquaculture")
Past Graduate Students
Joseph Ofori (Ph.D.), Orten Msiska (Ph.D.), Fredson Chikafumbwa (M.S.), Daniel Jamu (M.S.), Sloans Chimatiro (M.S.), Winston Kadongola (M.S.), Alfred Maluwa (M.S.)
Selected Publications (complete list)
Selected books
Desbonnet, A. and B.A. Costa-Pierce,
Editors. 2008. Science
for Ecosystem-Based Management: Narragansett Bay in the 21st Century
Century. Springer Science, New York, N.Y.
Costa-Pierce, B.A. et al.,
Editors. 2005. Urban
Aquaculture. CABI Publishing Co., Wallingford, U.K.
Bridger, C.J. & B.A. Costa-Pierce,
Editors. 2003. Open
Ocean Aquaculture: From Research to Commercial Reality. World Aquaculture
Society, Baton Rouge, LA.
Costa-Pierce, B.A., Author/Editor.
2002.
Ecological
Aquaculture. Blackwell Science, Oxford, UK.
Selected peer-reviewed journal articles & book chapters
Costa-Pierce, B.A. 2008. Epilogue,
p. 315-325. In: Culver, K. and D. Castle (eds.) Aquaculture, Innovation
and Social Transformation. Springer Springer Science, New York, N.Y.
http://www.springer.com/life+sci/zoology/book/978-1-4020-8834-6?detailsPage=toc
Costa-Pierce, B.A. 2008. An ecosystem approach to marine aquaculture: A global review, p. 81-116. In: Soto, D. et al. (eds). Building An Ecosystem Approach to Aquaculture. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Proceedings 14. Rome, Italy. 221p.
Soto, D. and 22 co-authors. 2008. Applying an ecosystem-based approach to aquaculture: principles, scales and some management measures, p. 15-36. In: Soto, D. et al. (eds). Building An Ecosystem Approach to Aquaculture. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Proceedings 14. Rome, Italy. 221p.
Costa-Pierce, B.A. and A. Desbonnet. 2008. An "ecofunctional" approach to ecosystem-based management for Narragansett Bay, p. 537-554. In: A. Desbonnet & B.A. Costa-Pierce, Editors. 2008. Science for Ecosystem-Based Management: Narragansett Bay in the 21st Century. Springer Science, New York, N.Y.
Wilburn, S.M., J. Tobey, J. Hepp, S. Olsen, and B.A. Costa-Pierce. 2007. Sea Grant in Latin America? Adapting the US Sea Grant model of linked applied research, extension, and education to a Latin American Context—Is there a fit? Marine Policy 31: 229-238.
Caskey, L.L., R.R. Riedel, B.A. Costa-Pierce, J. Butler and S.H. Hurlbert. 2007. Population dynamics, distribution, and growth rate of tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) in the Salton Sea, California, with notes on bairdiella (Bairdiella icistia) and orangemouth corvina (Cynoscion xanthulus). Hydrobiologia 576:185–203.
Riedel, R. and B. A. Costa-Pierce. 2005. Feeding ecology of Salton Sea tilapia (Oreochromis spp.). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Science 104(1): 26-36.
Costa-Pierce, B.A. 2003. Rapid evolution of an established feral tilapia (Oreochromis spp.): the need to incorporate invasion science into regulatory structures. Biological Invasions 8: 71-84.
Riedel, R., D. Schlenk, D. Frank, and B.A. Costa-Pierce. 2002. Analyses of organic and inorganic contaminants in Salton Sea fish. Marine Pollution Bulletin 44(5): 403-411.
Riedel, R. and B.A. Costa-Pierce. 2002. Review of the fisheries of the Salton Sea, California, USA: past, present, and future. Reviews in Fisheries Science 10(1): 77-112.
Selected monographs
Committee on Best Practices for Shellfish Aquaculture and the Effects of Commercial Activities in Drakes Estero, Point Reyes National Seashore, California. (Peterson, P., B. Costa-Pierce, B. Drumbauld, E. Hofmann, H. Kite-Powell, D. Manahan, F. O'Beirn, R. Paine, P. Thompson and R. Whitlatch). 2009. Ocean Studies Board, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC.
Zertuche-Gonzalez, J.A., O. Sosa-Nishizaki, J.G. Vaca Rodriguez, R. del Moral Simanek, C. Yarish, and B.A. Costa-Pierce. 2008. Marine science assessment of capture-based tuna (Thunnus orientalis) aquaculture in the Ensenada region of Northern Baja California, Mexico. Packard Foundation, Los Altos, California.
Costa-Pierce, B.A., A. Buschmann, S. Cross, J.L. Iriarte, Y. Olsen, and G. Reid. 2008. Nutrient impacts of farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) on pelagic ecosystems and implications for carrying capacity. Report of the Technical Working Group on Nutrients and Carrying Capacity of the World Wildlife Fund Salmon Aquaculture Dialogue. WWF, Washington, DC, USA.
Stickney, R.R., B.A. Costa-Pierce, D.M. Baltz, M. Drawbridge, C. Grimes, S. Phillips and D. LaDon Swann. 2006. Toward sustainable open ocean aquaculture in the United States. Fisheries 31(12): 607-610.
Kelleher, K., R. Zweig, E. Hoshino and B.A. Costa-Pierce. 2006. Investment in Fisheries and Aquaculture Module 6, AgInvestment Sourcebook. The World Bank, Washington, DC.
Costa-Pierce, B.A. 2006. Sustainability indices for mariculture operations. P. 14-31 In: ICES. 2006. Report of the Working Group on Environmental Interactions of Mariculture (WGEIM), 24-28 April 2006, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA. ICES CM 2006/MCC:03. 195 pp. http://www.ices.dk/reports/MCC/2006/WGEIM06.pdf
Bireley, L.E., J.E. Claussen, B.A. Costa-Pierce, W.J. Daley, J. Geubtner, J. Jolley, B. Knuth, B.G. Parsons, G. Rassam, and C. Stevens. 2004. American Fisheries Society 2005-2009 strategic plan summary. Fisheries 29 (12): 31-37.
Costa-Pierce, B.A., R. Hardy and J.M. Kapetsky. 2003. Review of the Status, Trends and Issues in Global Fisheries and Aquaculture, with Recommendations for USAID Investments. Strategic Partnerships for Agricultural Research and Education (SPARE), U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, DC.
Costa-Pierce, B.A. and L. Cammen. 2003. Restoring and Conserving America's Coastal Ecosystems and Habitats. NOAA—Sea Grant, Washington, DC.
Costa-Pierce, B.A. 2003. Use of ecosystems science in ecological aquaculture. Bull. Aquacul. Assoc. Canada 103(2): 32-40.
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