Carrie Byron to receive NSF grant for research on carrying capacity in aquaculture
Carrie Byron, Ph.D., research assistant professor in the Marine Science Center, was recently informed that she will receive a National Science Foundation grant award to continue research on using carrying capacity to promote sustainable aquaculture. Byron’s research on this topic was the focus of her doctoral dissertation at the University of Rhode Island.
She gave a public lecture on her research at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland on March 22, 2012, as part of the Sea State Lecture Series on “The Future of Aquaculture.” An article written about the lecture and her research on carrying capacity was featured on The Fish Site, an aquaculture news site, on July 30, 2013.
“Carrying capacity is the number of individuals in a population of a particular species that the resources in the habitat can support,” Byron explains in the article. Applying the principle of carrying capacity to aquaculture can aid in the development of regulations aimed at preventing unacceptable ecological impacts.