09/17/12

Aquaculture production of exotic species by country

Blue Frontiers: Managing the environmental costs of aquaculture (Hall et al., 2011), from the World Fish Center is an incredibly data rich report. It is a must read for anyone interesting in the promise of aquaculture and the challenges involved in moving towards more sustainable practices.
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09/10/12

Aquaculture feed conversion ratio and related metrics

Environmental impacts of aquaculture vary depending on the type of organisms grown and the technologies used to grow them. In the 2007 paper Indicators of Resource Use Efficiency and Environmental Performance in Fish and Crustacean Aquaculture, Boyd et al. propose a set of indicators to compare different production techniques.
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09/1/12

Ed Startup 101 collaborative activity – follow up

Proposed directions for a Ed Startup 101 space collaborative activity can be found in this google document.

If I have set it up properly, anyone with the link to the document can post comments without signing into google. If you would like editing privileges, give me the email address associated with your google account and I will add you as an author. You can send it to @andrewstaroscik on twitter, @andrewstaroscik on the edstartup 101 site or via my blog contact form.

This is just a draft. Please feel free to suggest modification to the assignment.

I’d like to finalize the assignment by EOD Monday and have the collaborative activity completed by Thursday or Friday of this week.