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From: Danielle Nierenberg, Food Tank <dnier...@foodtank.com>
Date: Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:19 AM
Subject: June 18 Webinar - Protecting our Oceans
To: Daniela Ochoa Gonzalez <dani...@gmail.com>

Daniela --

Please join Food Tank for a special webinar with Michael Tlulsy, Director Research at the New England Aquarium on Wednesday, June 18 (TOMORROW!) at Noon EST (11AM CST)!

Limited spots so please register now by clicking HERE .

Michael will discuss how protecting our ocean is a great necessity for food security. Half of world's people depend on fish for protein. Does eating seafood have a role in protecting oceans? And how does aquaculture fit into ocean protein and food security?

This webinar will also discuss aquaculture and its role in seafood sustainability.

We'll have a lot of time for Q&A and the event is completely free to attend. Please register HERE. And you can listen now to previous Food Tank webinars including food waste expert Jonathan Bloom and urban forager Ava Chin.

About Michael Tlusty
Dr. Michael Tlusty is the Director of Ocean Sustainability Science at the New England Aquarium, and a Research Faculty at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

He has been at the Aquarium since 1999, where he has been developing an aquaculture program that integrates the knowledge skills and abilities of the entire New England Aquarium community.

His interest in sustainable aquaculture was formulated prior to his time at the aquarium, when he worked in Newfoundland, Canada to assess the environmental impact of salmon aquaculture, and ultimately to determine environmentally safe production levels. Michael has extended this work within the aquarium, where he helped to develop the Sustainable Seafood Initiative.

This was the first NGO program to partner with a commercial major corporation to advise them on ways to improve the sustainability of their seafood purchases. Since that time, Michael has worked on both wild fishery and aquaculture issues, and has also looked at ways to integrate emerging fields to create new metrics to assess the journey toward sustainability.

Much of Michael’s work in seafood is working with certification systems to improve them, and has recently published the first theoretical model for how certification can improve seafood production. He currently sits on the Global Aquaculture Alliance Standards Oversight Committee, the Technical Advisory Group for the Aquaculture Stewardship Council, and the Process and Benchmark Expert Working Group for the Global Seafood Sustainability Initiative.

In addition to seafood, Michael also conducts the ornamental fish trade (which mirror many of the benefits and challenges of seafood), and conducts research on the multifactoral nature of bacterial diseases in crustaceans. Michael was born near Chicago, Illinois.

He has a B.S. in Animal Science from University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in Biology from Syracuse University.

Join me for the webinar! Click HERE to register now!

All the best,