laude Boyd, CRSP researcher at Auburn University, used CRSP information in a workshop in on Inland Shrimp Farming on 23-24 October 2001 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Boyd was asked to arrange a session on warmwater pond aquaculture for the Bioengineering Section of the American Fisheries Society Symposium to be held in Portland, Oregon, in 2002. He is also planning a conference titled “Agriculture and the Environment in Alabama” to be held in November 2002.

William Camargo, CRSP researcher at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale working on the Peru Project, was invited to Costa Rica to write a proposal for CYTED (Science and Technology Iberoamerican Organization) with other Latin American colleagues to create an Iberoamerican aquaculture nutrition network.

Konrad Dabrowski, CRSP researcher at Ohio State University, presented a seminar on “New development in diet formulation for larval fish” in La Molina, Peru, on 12 November 2001. Approximately 100 people, including faculty, students, and government employees, attended the seminar.

We welcome a new addition to the Board of Directors. Ron Jones is currently the Director of the Southeast Environmental Research Center and a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida International University. An active researcher for over 25 years, Jones is currently studying water quality, and his interests lie in the biogeochemistry of nitrogen and phosphorus.