Louis Landesman

LOUIS LANDESMAN

128 Lakeview Park Road Colonial Heights, VA 23834-1514 USA Email: [email protected]

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana, December 2000. Title of Dissertation: Effects of Herbivory and Competition on Growth of Lemnaceae in Systems for Wastewater Treatment and Livestock Feed Production. Advisor Prof. Mark Konikoff.

M.S. Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures, Auburn University, January 1978. Title of thesis: An economic analysis of the value of alternative uses for manure in Chambers County, Alabama. Advisor Prof. Ed McCoy (deceased).

B.S. Biology, State University of New York, Geneseo, N.Y., June 1975.

B.S. Biology, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, June 1973.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Aquaculture Development Agent – Cooperative Extension Service, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA. Help promote fish and shrimp farming in Central and Western Virginia. Train farmers in fish farming and aquaculture techniques. Raise and spawn catfish on experiment station and private farms. April 2007 to present.

Lecturer – Biology Department, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. August 2005 to June 2006.

Aquaculture Consultant – Assisted fish feed producer in improving and increasing production of trout and sturgeon feed. Tbilisi, Georgia and Dilijan, Armenia. ACDIVOCA November 2008 and Winrock International, Sept. 2006. Visited and recommended improvements for a large fish farm in Bugayivka, Ukraine, Poltavarybgosp Joint Stock Company, July 2006. Trained fish farmers in fish culture techniques and did site surveys for fish production, Goranboy, Azerbaijan, 2006. Assisted farmers in producing shrimp and tilapia in salt water. Choluteca, Honduras. Winrock International, May 2005. Trained salt producers to design produce shrimp in their salt ponds, Tanga, Tanzania. March 2004. Trained fish farmers in fish culture techniques. Did site surveys for fish production, Soroca and Zaicani, Moldova, CNFA, July 2004. Trained fish farmers in fish culture techniques. Did site surveys for fish production in Guria Province, Republic of Georgia. ACDIVOCA, August 2004. Taught fish farming course to extension workers, Bangladesh, and to fish farmers in Nepal, Winrock International, July 2003.

Post-Doctoral Research Associate – Did research on the use of duckweed to recover nutrients from swine wastewater. Helping to design and put into operation systems to treat wastewater from intensive swine production facilities. Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, December 2000 to December 2002.

Graduate Research Assistant – Did research on the use of aquatic plants to recycle nitrogen from wastewater. Texas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Lubbock, Texas, July 1998 to June 2000.

Graduate Research Assistant – Helped collect data on contaminant time of travel in Louisiana rivers. Collected data and devised plan to use industrial cooling water to reduce coastal land loss in Southern Louisiana. Center for Louisiana Inland Water Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, February to July 1997.

Aquaculture Consultant – Helped farmers design and manage fishponds and prepare fish feed in Russia and Azerbaijan; April-May, 1996 and July 2002. Helped write business plan to revive capture fishery on Lake Zaysan, Kazakhstan. Volunteers in Cooperative Assistance, September 1996.

Farm Manager – Helped manage aquarium fish farm. Supervised employees, who fed, harvested and treated fishponds. Diagnosed fish for diseases and parasites. Treated ponds with herbicides and pesticides to control aquatic insects and weeds. New Age Fisheries, Arcadia, Florida, August1990 to April 1991.

Planner – Helped prepare business plan for the production of catfish fingerlings in coastal Mississippi. Edited and reviewed Master Plan for Aquaculture in Jackson County, Mississippi. Blue Water International, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 1989.

Aquaculture Consultant – Documented coastal shrimp farm development in Indonesia for the Brackishwater Aquaculture Development Project managed by Aquatic Farms, Ltd. Jakarta, Indonesia, 1988

Researcher – Did research on the effects of diet on aquarium fishes. Zoology Department, National University of Singapore, 1983 - 88.

Consultant – Maltimor Sendirian Berhad, Kuching, Malaysia. Did site surveys and provided planning advice for raising fish and shrimp in Sarawak, Malaysia, 1982-1983. PUBLICATIONS (peer-reviewed)

Cheng, J., Landesman, L., Bergmann, B. A., Classen, J.J., Howard, W. J. and Y. T. Yamamoto. 2002. Nutrient Removal from Swine Lagoon Liquid by Lemna minor 8627. Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 45(4):1003-1010.

Shim, K.F., L. Landesman and T.J. Lam. 1989. "Effect of Dietary Protein on Growth, Ovarian Development and Fecundity in the Dwarf Gourami, Colisa lalia (Hamilton)". Journal of Aquaculture in the Tropics, 4:111-123.

Shim, K.F., T.J. Lam and L. Landesman. 1987. "Gourami Culture in Singapore" Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, 18(3):203-206.

PUBLICATIONS (non peer-reviewed)

Landesman, L. 1996. "Blackworms - A Second Crop from Trout Farming". Aquaculture Magazine, 22(2):17-19.

Landesman, L. 1994. "The Negative Impacts of Coastal Tropical Aquaculture Developments". World Aquaculture, 25(2):12 -17.

"Overwintering Tilapia in a Recirculating System" in Essays on Food and Energy, ed. by Greg Welsh, Foundation for Self Sufficiency, Catonsville, Maryland, 1977.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Certificate awarded by Volunteers in Technical Assistance for Outstanding Volunteer Contribution, June 1994.

Certificate of Achievement for Volunteer Service, ACDIVOCA

President's Volunteer Service Award, USA Freedom Corps

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

WAS (World Aquaculture Society) Society of Wetland Scientists World Wildlife Fund COMPUTER SKILLS

Use of SAS and Statistica to analyze data from my research. Experience using WordPerfect, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Quicken and Unix. Designed my own web page: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/3631

GIS EXPERIENCE

Introduction to GIS using ARC/INFO on a UNIX Platform. USGS Biological Resources Division NWRC, June, 1997.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Working knowledge of Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia, can read and write Hindi.