The world is their oyster

摘要

The shellfish industry in British Columbia has at least two very happy people this fall. Carl Butterworth is the manager of the Vancouver Island University's (VIU's) Deep Bay Marine Field Station and Dr. Tim Green is the new Canada ResearchChair in Shellfish Health and Genomics at the Deep Bay station.Butterworth has been part of a drive by VTU to build a Center for Shellfish Research to support the B.C. industry, to provide a teaching environment for aquaculture students and expand the station's public education programs. "Of course we needed to havea researcher for the Research Center," quips Butterworth. "Both VTU and the industry are very happy to get final approval to welcome Tim Green to our program.""He really has been everywhere they do any kind of oyster aquaculture," says Butterworth, noting Green's tenures in France and Australia as well as his work at the University of Washington, Rutgers University and the University of Queensland where he did his PhD.