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More than 60 attendees took in presentations and browsed displays provided by PRESS team members. Azure Cygler, PRESS project manager, a sustainable fisheries and aquaculture specialist of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Coastal Resources Center (CRC) and Rhode Island Sea Grant (Sea Grant), said PRESS projects are interdisciplinary and reflect the collective strengths of academia, industry, and extension. \u201cThrough these projects, we have a wealth of expertise and perspectives for solving real-time industry problems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the event, for example, Rebecca Brown, professor and chair of plant sciences and entomology, in CELS, demonstrated a device, a laser scarecrow, being tested to keep birds away from shellfish growing on marine farms. A neighboring table featured Hiro Uchida, professor of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at CELS, who explained a project that incorporates traditional Japanese methods \u2013 ikejime — into dispatching and preparing fish for sale and consumption. And at another table, several fishermen, including David Bethoney, director of the Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation (CFRF), introduced attendees to \u201cjigging\u201d \u2013 squid harvest equipment that is used world over and is now being tested here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PRESS proposals are reviewed by an interdisciplinary advisory board and funding is distributed rapidly to respond to urgent issues. The program is managed by CELS with connection to GSO, via the CRC, and is administrated by Sea Grant. PRESS is funded by a $1 million, four-year grant secured from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with U.S. Sen. Jack Reed leading the effort to secure the funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n