FVSUag Directory
Donald Bacoat
Aquaculture Carpenter/Production Assistant
(478) 825-6786
(478) 825-6299
bacoatd@fvsu.edu
Extension Area: Agricultural and Natural Resources
Expertise:
- Aquaculture
- Hatchery design
- Tuna aquaculture
- Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture
- Watershed restoration
- Sustainable ecosystems
Honors/Awards:
- Slater Technology Entrepreneurial Fellow
- NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship
- Edwin Iversen Award in Aquaculture
- NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center Fellowship
Education:
Master of Science: Masters of Environmental Science and Management - University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Bachelor of Arts: Spanish - Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA
Recent Publications/Presentations:
Bacoat, D.J., 2012 Aquaculture Ecolabelling – A White Paper in Integrated Coastal Science prepared by Donald J. Bacoat for Caribbean Mariculture, Dominican Republic
Bacoat, D.J., 2010. Rise of Sustainable Aquaculture will Benefit Rhode Island. ecoRI
Benetti, D., O'Hanlon, B., Sardenberg, B., Orhun, R., Brand, L. Rivera, J., Welch, A., Hoenig, R., Zink, I., Denlinger, B., Bacoat, D., Palmer, K. Advances in hatchery and growout technology of Cobia Rachycentron canadum. World Aquaculture Society (WAS) 2008, Orlando, Florida CD of Abstracts, 29.
Benetti, D., Orhun, R., Zink, I., Cavalin, F., Sardenberg, B., Palmer, K., Denlinger, B., Bacoat, D., and B. O'Hanlon. 2007. Aquaculture of Cobia Rachycentron canadum in the Americas and the Caribbean. In "Cobia Aquaculture: Research Development and Commercial Production" (I Chiu Lia and Eduardo M. Leano (eds.), 57-77.