Session 5

Dr. Stephen Cross received his M.Sc. at the University of Victoria (Canada) in marine quantitative ecology / oceanography and his Ph.D. at the Aquaculture Institute, University of Stirling (Scotland). He is currently the NSERC Industrial Research Chair for Sustainable Aquaculture at North Island College’s Centre for Applied Research, Technology and Innovation, an Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, and an Adjunct in VIU’s Department of Fisheries and aquaculture. His current research program focuses on various aspects of environmental sustainability/management of coastal aquaculture, with his real passion linked to the design, engineering and commercial-scale testing of Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture (SEA) systems.