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  1. Nov 2, 2023

     
  2. May 4, 2023

    Dr. Hanping Wang at the Ohio Center for Aquaculture Research and Development (OCARD) at The Ohio State University South Centers, in partnership with Dr. Gary Gao of the Specialty Crops team and University of New Hampshire, has been awarded approximately $1 million from a very competitive program of the USDA - the Urban, Indoor, and other Emerging Agriculture (UIE).
  3. May 2, 2023

      Aquaculture Genetics Laboratory at OSU South Center continually received Dean's List certificate of achievement in 2023, recognizing the laboratory’s safety research operation and management.  
  4. Oct 6, 2020

      Congratulations to Dr. Wang and aquaculture team! Dr. Wang is the Editor-in-Chief of the 888-page, two volume book along with Francesc Piferrer and Song-Lin Chen. In addition to Dr. Wang, South Centers staff members Zhigang Shen, Hong Yao, Dean Rapp, and Paul O’Bryant also contributed to authoring chapters in the book. Sarah Swanson provided chapter coordination and Bradford Sherman, Joy Bauman, and Jordan Bostic contributed to the book by providing English language editing.
  5. Nov 30, 2018

    Dr. Hanping Wang’s book “Sex Control in Aquaculture” has been published by Wiley-Blackwell after three years of planning, coordination, writing, and revising. The book consists of two volumes and has a total of 888 pages.
  6. Sep 28, 2017

    Aquaculture Boot Camp-2 (ABC-2) prepares participants for fish farming in the Midwest. Students apply for a one-year course that includes classroom and field training paired with mentoring from some of the industry’s top-ranked leaders. Upon graduation, students will have the knowledge and hands-on experience to successfully operate an aquaculture or aquaponics farm.
  7. Sep 23, 2016

    Aquaculture Genetics Laboratory at OSU South Center continually received Dean's List certificate of achievement in 2016, recognizing the laboratory’s safety research operation and management. South Center staff Hong Yao is the manager of the laboratory. She has put a lot of efforts and hard work in management of the lab research, operations, and equipment. 
  8. Jul 22, 2016

    PIKETON, Ohio – Healthy water leads to healthy fish and increases the potential for healthy profits for fish farmers. On the other hand, poor water quality can lead to stressed fish, increasing the chance for the animals’ illness and death, and resulting in income losses for farmers, says Matthew Smith, an Ohio State University Extension aquaculture specialist.
  9. Jun 12, 2015

    Ms. Hiam S. Desouky, who was trained through a joint Ph.D. training program between OSU South Center and Benha University in Cairo, passed her defense and received her Ph.D. recently in School of Veterinary Medicine, Benha University. Dr. Hiam S. Desouky completed her Ph.D. dissertation research in Dr. Hanping Wang’s Aquaculture Genetics Lab, OSU South Centers during April 2013-March 2015, after finishing her course work in Benha University.
  10. Jun 12, 2015

    Invited by Egyptian Embassy in Washington DC, Dr. Hanping Wang recently visited Benha University in Cairo to discuss and enhance future scientific collaboration, and advise Ms Hiam S. Desouky’s dissertation and defense. During the visit, Dr. Wang met with Dr. Ali Shame EI Din, the President of Benha University, Dr. Mohamed, the Dean of School of Veterinary Medicine, and Dr.

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$2M grant awards to fund two meaningful aquaculture projects

 

Dr. Hanping Wang at the Ohio Center for Aquaculture Research and Development (OCARD) at The Ohio State University South Centers, in partnership with Dr. Gary Gao of the Specialty Crops team and University of New Hampshire, has been awarded approximately $1 million from a very competitive program of the USDA - the Urban, Indoor, and other Emerging Agriculture (UIE). This funded project is for the development of sustainable aquaponics model systems to enhance resiliency of urban, indoor, and emerging food systems using monosex and genetically improved fish with a variety of plants and DNA-based analyses of the structure and function of microbe communities in aquaponic systems.

The program received more than 200 proposals and funded just 10 large projects this year, with each having an approximate value of $1 million. South Centers was among the recipients with the funding rate of around 5%. Dr. Hanping Wang is the Principal Investigator (PI), and Dr. Gary Gao serves as Co-PI of the project. This project is expected to contribute to: 1) enhancing UIE sustainability and satisfying human food and fiber needs; 2) enhancing quality of life and access to safe nutritious food for urban and peri-urban communities, and society as a whole; 3) reducing barriers to land access: and 4) sustaining the economic viability of urban farm operations.

Additionally, Dr. Hanping Wang and his collaborators in North Carolina State University have been awarded $1 million from NOAA to develop striped bass seedstock production technologies and related outreach activities.

As one of the National Sea Grant Aquaculture Hubs, this StriperHub project will conduct broodstock and seedstock production research and develop feeding strategies/ protocols and culture manual/methods for striped bass industry. The project will help address the seafood deficit in the United States by developing striped bass as a candidate aquaculture species and expanding hybrid striped bass aquaculture to strengthen the domestic seafood industry and boost the economies of coastal, great lake, and rural communities.

There is a growing interest in striped bass aquaculture within the Great Lake Region (GLR) and North Central Region (NCR). This project adds a new aquaculture research species to OCARD. South Centers’ own Dr. Hanping Wang is leading and coordinating research and outreach efforts of the StriperHub in the GLR and NCR.

OCARD has been competitive in winning research grants at the national level over the past 20 years. This success can be attributed to the efforts of our aquaculture team, with their nationally recognized aquaculture genetics program at Piketon and impact of our quality research and publications, plus the support of other teams and supporting staff at South Centers.

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