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SEMINAR: MAF Special Seminar -Room Correction

From: Maria Luisa Estevanez <mestevanez@rsmas.miami.edu>
Subject: SEMINAR: MAF Special Seminar -Room Correction
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:56:45 -0400

 

MAF SPECIAL SEMINAR

Guest Speaker: PROF. DR. GERMAN MERINO

Title: ADVANCES IN RECIRCULATING AQUACULTURE SYSTEMS.

When: WEDNESDAY AUGUST 22 10:30-11:45 AM
 
Where: SLAB 103

 

Merino, PhD (Chile)

 

Germán E. Merino, has a professional title as Aquacultural Engineer from Universidad Catolica del Norte (1994, Chile) and a PhD in Biological and Agricultural Engineering from University of California Davis (2004, USA). Dr Merino became involved in aquaculture activities back in 1992, accumulating experience in facility design, construction, operations and management with an emphasis on marine aquaculture integrated systems and RAS (Recirculating Aquaculture Systems). Dr. Merino has worked with shellfish, flatfish, finfish, seaweeds, algae, rotifers in intensive culture systems. His recent projects include direction and participation as an aquaculture expert in the design of recirculation seawater aquaculture systems for mollusks such us abalone and scallops. Currently, Dr Merino work as a professor of the Aquaculture Department at the Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile. For the last ten years, he has been a close collaborator of the University of Miami Aquaculture Program.