Aquaculture Bioengineering Corp.

                     Vita

 

                                                                                                        Vita for Chris Weeks

 

                                              Harry Westers
                                                                                                   

Aquaculture Bioengineering Corp.                                                                 Phone: (517) 569-3474

P.O. Box 8                                                                                                            Fax: (517) 569-3474  

Rives Junction, MI 49277                                                                                 E-mail: hwesters1@aol.com

                                                                                                               

 

EDUCATION 

B.A. The Netherlands, 1953

M.S. University of Michigan, 1964

 

POSITIONS 

President (1992 - present), Aquaculture Bioengineering Corp., Rives Junction, Michigan

Chief (1984 - 1992) and Technical Manger (1973-1984), Michigan State Fish Hatcheries

Regional Fish Culturist (1967 - 1973), Fisheries Division, Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Hatchery Manager (1964 - 1967), Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery, Michigan

Research               Assistant (1960 - 1964), Fisheries Division, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Fish Culturist (1958 - 1960), State of Michigan

 

SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 

American Fisheries Society, Bioengineering and Fish Culture Sections

Aquaculture Engineering Society

World Aquaculture Society

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 

Westers, H. 2000. A White Paper on the status and concerns of aquaculture effluents in the North Central Region, NCRAC, March 29, 2000.

 

Westers, H. 2001. Best management practices for the trout industry. Aquaculture waste management symposium. Virginia Tech. Blacksburg, VA.

 

Westers, H. 1995. Feed and Feeding Strategies to Reduce Aquaculture Waste. In: Aquaculture Engineering and Waste Management. M.B. Timmons, editor. Cornell University

 

Westers, H. 1991. Operations Waste Management in Aquaculture Effluents. In: Nutritional Strategies and Aquaculture Waste. Cowey, C.B. and C.Y. Cho, editors. University of Guelph.

 

Westers, H.  1983.  Considerations in hatchery design for the prevention of diseases.  In: A guide to integrated fish

Health management in the Great Lakes Basin.  F.P. Meyer, et al. (ed’s), 29-35.  Great Lakes Fishery Comm. Spec. Publ. 83-2.

 

Westers,H.  1978.  Biological considerations in hatchery design for coolwater fishes.  In: Selected coolwater fishes

                 of North America.  R.L. Kendall (ed.), 246-253.  Spec. Publ. No. 11. Am. Fish. Soc.

 

Westers, H., and K.M. Pratt. 1977. Rational Design of Hatcheries for Intensive Culture, Based on Metabolic Characteristics. Progressive Fish-Culturist 39:157-165.

 

SPECIAL PROJECTS 
Three-day Workshop: Design and Operation of Aquaculture Facilities.

Tetra Tech, Inc.: Development of EPA effluent guidelines for the aquaculture industry, June 2001 - June 2004.

 

 

 

                                                                       Chris Weeks                          
                                                                            

PhD, Michigan State University                                                                      Phone:  (517) 745-1562                                                            Back

Department of Fisheries and Wildlife                                                             Fax:  (517) 569-3474

East Lansing, Michigan 48824                                                       E-mail: weekschr@msu.edu

 

EDUCATION

B.S. San Diego State University, Aerospace Engineering, 1986

M.S. Michigan State University, Fisheries and Wildlife - Fish Population Dynamics, 1997

Ph.D. Michigan State University, Fisheries and Wildlife - Aquaculture, 2007

 

POSITIONS

Consultant, Aquaculture Bioengineering Corp., Rives Junction, Michigan (October 2001–Present, June 1996–May 1998)

Lab Manager - Michigan State University/ Michigan Department of Natural Resources (October 2003 – 2005)

Aquaculture Facility Manager, Stoney Creek Fisheries, Harrietta, Michigan (August 2000 – October 2001)

Hatchery Manager, Great Black Creek Fish Co., Black Creek, Wisconsin (May 1998 – August 2000)

Cade Industries, Engineer, San Diego, California; Lansing, Michigan (January 1989 – February 1993)

McDonnell Douglas, Engineer, Long Beach, California (September 1986 – January 1989) 

 

SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIOINAL ORGANIZATIONS

Aquaculture Engineering Society

US Aquaculture Association

Michigan Aquaculture Association, President 2003 - present

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/TECHNICAL REPORTS

Weeks, C.T., 2007.  Replacement of fish meal with soybean meal in diets for Atlantic salmon, Salmo, salar, effects on growth,

protease activity, digestibility and intestinal histology.  Dissertation, Doctor of Philosophy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI May 2008.

 

Weeks, C.T., and H. Westers. 2004.  Trout production facility – 125,000 pounds annual production, conceptual design,

Aquaculture Bioengineering Corporation report for Aquatic Consultants Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sept. 2004.

 

Weeks, C.T., and H. Westers. 2002.  Feasibility study for a rainbow trout production facility at Spring Ranch Hatchery,

New Mexico. Aquaculture Bioengineering Corporation, January, 2002.

 

Weeks, C.T., and H. Westers. 2002.  Feasibility Study Final Report for a 1,200,000 pound annual yellow perch production

            facility utilizing waste heat from the Hillman Power Plant, Hillman, Michigan. Aquaculture Bioengineering Corp.

 

Westers, H., and  C.T. Weeks, 2003.  Determining annual production capabilities for sequential rearing programs through use

of routine fish culture data.  North American Journal of Aquaculture 65: pp 269-277.

 

Westers, H., and C.T. Weeks, In Draft.  Principles of Intensive Fish Culture.  Blackwell Publishing.  Oxford, U.K.

 

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Weeks, C.T. and D. Garling, 2004, Feed conversion, growth, protein digestibility and trypsin enzyme activity of Atlantic

salmon (Salmo salar) fed diets with graded levels of trypsin. Aquaculture America 2004. Honolulu, HI.

 

Weeks, C.T. and H. Westers.  2002.  Manageability concerns in engineering and design of recirculating aquaculture systems. 

Fourth International Conference on Recirculating Aquaculture Systems, Roanoke, Virgina, July, 2002.

 

Westers, H. and C. Weeks, 2002.  The status of yellow perch in aquaculture in the USA  In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Recirculating Aquaculture.  Roanoke, VA, 18-21 Jul 2002.

 

GRANTS

MI 21st Century Grant, co-PI, Development of fiber optic dissolved oxygen sensor for aquaculture, $930,000.

 

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Three-day Workshop: Design and Operation of Aquaculture Facilities, Aquaculture Bioengineering Corporation.

Selected (globally) special training: Design and Operation of Recirculation Technologies, Wageningen University, Netherlands