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Current Events Related to the Program in Scientific Aquaculture

New method in fight to save quahogs focus of study by researchers, students  Article in Falmouth Enterprise
By Marc Brown  |  September 6, 2005




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The race to cure the region's ailing oysters  Article in Boston Globe discussing research grant Roberts, Smolowitz and others recently received from NRAC.
By Kim Motylewski, Globe Correspondent | January 18, 2005

Scott Lindell and Bill Mebane return from Haiti where they were working with locals to further develop fish farming as a means to provide food.
MBL Project In Haiti Seeks Solutions To Malnutrition In Tropical Countries
January 21, 2005 article in Falmouth Enterprise
By Gina Hebert

Quahog disease worries shellfishermen Article in Cape Codder on Roxanna Smolowitz's Research
By Doreen Leggett/ dleggett@cnc.com
Friday, December 17, 2004

Roberts SB (2004) Lab Studies Genes Involved in Growth, Devlopment in the Bay Scallop.  Global Aquaculture Advocate. August Issue

Shell disease on the rise  March 19, 2004 Cape Cod Times article on Roxanna Smolowitz's Research
By Doug Fraser

Preliminary QPX findings bode well for shellfishermen   Article in Harwich Oracle featuring Roxanna Smolowitz's Research

By Doreen Leggett                Monday, December 29, 2003

Mebane B, Roberts SB, Lindell S, Goetz FW.     Researchers develop low-tech recirculating culture system for quahog clams.
Global Aquaculture Advocate.  December 2003     6: 35-36


In Haiti: feed the fish, then the people   December 4 2003 article in Christian Science Monitor
By Lori Valigra

Aquaculture Project Aims to Alleviate Hunger, Promote Sustainability in Poverty-Striken Countries
MBL Expertise and Technology Key to an Innovative Solution    MBL Monthly  October 2003, Vol. 12, No. 6

Little Fish may make Big Splash on the Cape   MBL Press Release    September 18, 2003
By Jonathan Talbot

Bill Mebane and Rick Goetz featured on front page of Cape Cod Times September 21, 2003
A new buzz in the battle against Cape Cod's mosquitoes
Can a tiny sunfish take a bite out of pesky, often dangerous population?
By JACK COLEMAN
Similar story also ran on NPR WCAI 90.1 WNAN  91.1 September 22
Transcript from NPR interview


Peggy Biga, new Post-doctoral Scientist in the Program in Scientific Aquaculture, awarded $90,000 from the USDA

Rick Goetz, Steven Roberts, Scott Lindell and others awarded $124,612  from NRAC for:
Development of diagnostic and management techniques to select cod
broodstocks and hatchery stocks free from nodavirus           August 2003    

NPR WCAI 90.1 WNAN  91.1 interview with Rick Goetz and Scott Lindell concerning Cod research aired August 15, 2003
Transcript from NPR interview                                                     Click here to listen !

August  2003   -Sean Patrick Whelan, Diver, MRC specimen collector wins two awards at 2003 MBL Photography Photomicrography Contest
-First Prize, MBL-at-Large: “Spisula”
-Honorable Mentions, MBL-at-Large: “Collector Goes to Work”

August 2003   -The Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia PA has contributed $3,000 to the
Program in Scientific Aquaculture to assist us with our Haiti Aquaculture Initiative

Program in Scientific Aquaculture Staff Participate in
Massachusetts Maritime Academy High School Environmental Symposium  - SoundWaves USGS April 2003 

Cod Reproduction Focus of MBL Study  -  MBL Monthly  March 2003, Vol. 12, No.3 

Bill Mebane awarded SEMAC grant to Culture Banded Sunfish in Underutilized Cranberry Bogs - March 2003

The U. S. Department of Agriculture awarded $89,934 (over two years) for “Isolation and Characterization of Factors Regulated During Larval Competence and Metamorphosis in the Bay Scallop, Argopecten irradians.” Steven Roberts is the principal investigator

Marine Resources Center's Summer Interns Featured in LabNotes Summer 2002

Program in Scientific Aquaculture Initiates Cod Broodstock Program  -  October 10, 2002

Senior Scientist Rick Goetz will lead MBL's Program in Scientific Aquaculture
LabNotes Spring 2002

Students, Senior Citizens Receive Hands-On Training and Volunteer Thousands of Hours as Part of MRC Outreach Program  MBL Monthly April 2002, Vol. 11, No. 4

Bill Mebane awared SEMAC grant for
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RECIRCULATING S
YS
TEM FOR THE ACCELERATED GROWTH OF QUAHOG SEED STOCK
March 2002