Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences

The Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences Concentration combines chemistry, biology, and ecology to understand how aquatic ecosystems function and how fisheries can be managed or grown to meet the global appetite for fish and shellfish consumption. Students may pursue a master’s or doctoral degree conducting research in this concentration.

Required Coursework

  • AEC502, Introduction to Biology Research (Fall)

  • PHI816, Research Ethics (or equivalent)

Quantitative Requirement

M.S. and Ph.D. students choose one of the following:

  • ST511 or ST512 Experimental Statistics in Biological Sciences I & II (Fall&Spring; staff)

  • Bioinformatics course, such as BIT815, or others (with permission from Advisory Committee)

  • AEC510, Machine Learning Approaches in Biology (Fall odd years; Reading)

  • ST505, Applied Nonparametric Statistics (Spring; Lu)

  • BMA567, Modeling Biological Systems (Alternate years; Gross)

Concentration Chair

Dr. Brad Taylor
[email protected]

Restricted Electives

Choose a minimum of one course for M.S., two for Ph.D.:

  • AEC/ENT509, Ecology and Conservation of Freshwater Invertebrates (Spring odd years; Taylor)
  • AEC515, Fish Physiology (Fall even years; Reading)
  • AEC519, Freshwater Ecology (Spring even years; Taylor)
  • AEC624, Marine Fisheries Ecology (Fall, Buckel)
  • AEC592, Management of Small Impoundments (Fall even years; Kwak)
  • AEC592, Aquatic Plant Ecology (Fall; Burkholder)
  • AEC592, Advanced Biology of Fishes (Fall; Reading)
  • AEC624, Marine Fisheries Ecology (Fall, Buckel) 
  • AEC710, Sampling Animal Populations (Spring; Collazo)
  • AEC726, Quantitative Fisheries Management (Fall even years; Fischer)
  • BMA772, Stochastic Processes in Biology (Spring; Gross)
  • FW511, Human Dimensions of Wildlife (Spring odd years; Peterson)
  • MEA549, Principles of Biological Oceanography (Fall; Eggleston)
  • NR595, Natural Resource Policy and Management (Fall; Hess)
  • TOX715, Environmental Toxicology (Fall; Buckwalter)
  • ZO524, Comparative Endocrinology (Spring; Borski)

 

Advising Faculty:

Name Email Website
Areas of Expertise
Aday, Derek [email protected] http://www.ncsu.edu/project/fish-lab/
Fisheries science
Bogan, Arthur [email protected] https://naturalsciences.org/staff/arthur-bogan
Freshwater mollusks, Systematics
Boreman, John [email protected] NA
Maine fisheries, Stock assessment, Fisheries management
Borski, Russell [email protected] http://borskilab.com/
Fish endocrinology and physiology
Buckel, Jeffrey [email protected] https://cmast.ncsu.edu/buckel/
Marine and estuarine fisheries science
Cao, Jie [email protected] https://cals.ncsu.edu/applied-ecology/people/jcao22/
Marine conservation, Fisheries stock assessment & management, Climate change
Cope, Gregory [email protected] https://appliedecology.cals.ncsu.edu/faculty/w-gregory-cope/
Ecotoxicology, Water quality, Mollusk conservation, Invasive species
Daniels, Harry [email protected] https://cals.ncsu.edu/applied-ecology/people/hdaniels/
Aquaculture of freshwater and marine fish and shrimp
Eggleston, David [email protected] https://cmast.ncsu.edu/eggleston/eggleston-lab/
Marine ecology and conservation
Fischer, Jesse [email protected] https://cals.ncsu.edu/applied-ecology/people/jrfische/ Fish ecology
Heise, Ryan [email protected] Fish ecology
Hightower, Joseph [email protected] https://cals.ncsu.edu/applied-ecology/people/jhncsu/
Fisheries science, Population modeling
Hinshaw, Jeffrey [email protected] https://cals.ncsu.edu/applied-ecology/people/jhinshaw/
Coldwater aquaculture, Fish health management, Water quality
Hopkins, Skylar [email protected] https://cals.ncsu.edu/applied-ecology/people/skylar-hopkins/ Disease ecology
Lynch, Abigail [email protected] https://cals.ncsu.edu/applied-ecology/people/abigail-lynch/ Fish biology
Morris, James [email protected]
Aquaculture, Aquatic sciences
Ramirez, Alonso [email protected] https://www.ramirezlab.net/
Tropical stream ecology, Urban ecology, Community ecology
Reading, Benjamin [email protected] https://www.facebook.com/stripedbassgenome
Aquaculture, physiology, machine learning, genomics, fishes
Shertzer, Kyle [email protected] NA
Stock assessment, Population ecology, Fishery management
Taylor, Bradley [email protected] http://www.bradwtaylor.com/
Freshwater ecosystems, Community and ecosystem ecology