Scholarship Opportunities from the Aquacultural Engineering Society (AES).

The AES offers two yearly scholarships of $500 each and free meeting registration to attend AES sponsored events each year. To apply, send a brief description of yourself and your long term interests in Aquaculture to the AES secretary/treasurer. You may e-mail him here.

The Commercial Fish and Shellfish Technologies program supports numerous educational opportunities, both in continuing education, and in the formal educational programs offered by Virginia Tech.

CFAST draws faculty from Virginia Tech's Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Natural Resources, and Engineering, and the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. These colleges offer numerous undergraduate and graduate degree opportunities tying in with CFAST's research programs.

Departments Involved (offering B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees)

• College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
  • Department of Food Science and Technology
  • Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
• College of Natural Resources
  • Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
• College of Engineering
  • Department of Biological Systems Engineering
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine
  • Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
  • Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences

Continuing Education Offerings

• The Biennial International Conference on Recirculating Aquaculture
• HACCP Training Courses for fish & shellfish processors and distributors
• Short courses on aquaculture facility design and operation, economics and management, waste management and resource recovery, food processing, and food safety and quality control.