Dave is the Project Director for Aquaculture and Environmental Public Health at the Center for a Livable Future (CLF). His current research at CLF addresses industrial food animal production from the sea (i.e. aquaculture) and its potential impacts on human health and the environment.

Dave’s interest in aquaculture began as a crabber, and an oyster and clam gardener growing up on a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia. His research background is in public health microbiology, water quality, and shellfish safety, which furthered an appreciation for the complex interactions between oceans and human health.

Prior to joining CLF, Dave was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California Berkeley (Dr. Kara Nelson’s group) from 2008-2009 working on a variety of projects: tertiary wastewater treatment for crop irrigation, developing a novel drinking water filter, the role of sunlight to inactivate viruses, and fecal pollution in Southern California recreational beaches. His graduate research on shellfish and water quality was performed under Dr. Mark Sobsey in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dave is a graduate of Davidson College in North Carolina.

Top Blog Posts

• Alabama Bans Imported Catfish After Testing
• Maryland Governor’s New Plan for Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay Blends Conservation and Aquaculture
• 10 in 10: Create Consumer Demand for Local, Organic Foods
• Fish and Health: More to the Story
• New analysis claims Monsanto skewed GM corn findings, but is hype clouding the real story?
• Congressional briefing by meat industry provides no new information
• CLF provides House testimony on Maryland Bill 953 to ban arsenic from poultry feed
• Urban Chicken Farming
• Aquaculture bill to protect ocean ecosystem
• Oil disaster may not affect seafood prices drastically, but Gulf remains in peril
• International aquaculture course stresses natural systems thinking for fish farming
• Response to “Math Lessons for Locavores” op-ed
• Tour dem veggies: An East Baltimore bicycle garden tour