Overall Goal
Teaching:
- Promote student mobility within existing funding-programmes (N2N)
- Develop joint field schools and masters courses
- Explore dual and blended degree options
Research:
- Initiate research in the interdisciplinary field of fisheries and aquaculture in the Arctic
- Open up opportunities for external funding
- Explore synergies to existing research projects such as Horizon 2020 projects
- Use the TN to leverage research grants to national and international funding agencies and global philanthropies
Outreach:
- Build up network of teachers, students and specialists from organizations such as Nordic Council, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), FAO, US Sea Grant, etc.
- Exchange knowledge and best practice
- Organize conferences/workshops in the field
Current and Planned Activities
- To hire new Master's Program Director in Coastal and Marine Management, see the news
- To Complete book chapter on fisheries and aquaculture in the Arctic for SDWG
- Student exhange
- Professional networking (sharing grant opportunities and knowledge exchange, manage email list)
- Course development
- TN Session on "The Seaweed Bioeconomic Sustainability Revolution" proposed for UArctic Congress in 2021
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Network for Aquaculture Education in the Arctic Funded. UArctic TN proposal funded by the Norwegian government to UiT at NOK 374, 250 (~US$ 39,000, ISK 5.4 million). Two years with start date before November 1, 2020. Lead PI is Professor Helgi Thor Thorarensen, The Norwegian College of Fishery Science , Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics , The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) , Tromsø, NORWAY "with co-PIs, Barry A. Costa-Pierce, University of New England and Catherine Chambers, Stefansson Arctic Institute and University Centre of the Westfjords. For more information see here.
Publications
- New paper published on engineering advances for kelp aquaculture in the North - Fredriksson, D., T. Dewhurst, A. Drach, W. Beaver, A. St. Gelais, K. Johndrow and B.A. Costa-Pierce. 2020. Hydrodynamic Characteristics of a Full Scale Kelp Model for Aquaculture Applications. Aquacultural Engineering 90: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaeng.2020.102086
Thematic Network cross-links:
UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Plastic Pollution
UArctic Thematic Network on Global Ecological and Economic Connections in Arctic and Sub-Arctic Crab Fisheries