Advisory Board & Partners

NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

The S3AM  project is a partnership between academia, non-profits, commercial aquaculture across three coastal regions, and extension networks. Together, these stakeholders will engage in S3AM  development, field trials, economic studies, and implementation to increase production regionally and nationally. The goal of S3AM overall is to advance farming techniques, cut costs, and increase production and farm profitability. 

The National Advisory Board—including industry representatives, nonprofits, extension faculty, and researchers from West, Gulf and East coasts—provides ongoing advice related to industry needs and aids in guiding S3AM  development. 

Quarterly, the Advisory Board meets with a steering committee for input in program development and dissemination of advances, and to provide input for creating technical training curricula and programs. 

Annually, the Advisory Board meets in Maryland to educate attendees on the progress on the S3AM  framework and discuss regional differences that  will need to be addressed for field trials and final deployment of the technology.

NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

Atlantic

Tessa Getchis, University of Connecticut Extension, tessa.getchis@uconn.edu

Sandy Shumway, University of Connecticut, Research, sandra.shumway@uconn.edu 

Ed Hale, University of Delaware, Research, ehale@udel.edu 

Dennis McIntosh, Delaware State University, Extension, dmcintosh@desu.edu 

Karen Hudson, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, Extension, khudson@vims.edu 

Ioannis Rekleitis, University of South Carolina, Research, yiannisr@cse.sc.edu 

Shahriar Negahdaripour, University of Miami, Research, nshahriar@miami.edu 

Nare Karapetyan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Research, nare.karapetyan@whoi.edu

Gulf

Andy Kane, University of Florida, Research, Kane@ufl.edu 

Megan Gima, University of Southern Mississippi, Research, megan.gima@usm.edu 

Pacific

Ashleigh Epps, University of Washington, Sea Grant, aepps6@uw.edu

Brett Dumbauld, USDA-ARS, brett.dumbauld@usda.gov

Central U.S.

John Reid, University of Illinois , j-reid1@illinois.edu