16 DECEMBER 2024 • WORLD AQUACULTURE • WWW.WAS.ORG Aquaculture Engineering Society Membership Opportunity Michael Timmons The Aquaculture Engineering Society (AES) was established 30 years ago by a small group of individuals passionate about bringing engineering to aquaculture. At the time, aquaculture was starting to supply an increasing percentage of our global seafood, helping to meet consumer demand. Back then, that number was less than 10%, and now aquacultureproduced products exceed 50% of the seafood supplying the global market. Seafood demand continues to increase, and wildcaught seafood supplies remain static, leaving aquaculture to meet the increasing demand. The AES is needed throughout the global aquaculture sector now more than ever. The Board of Directors seeks to increase membership and engagement by providing real value to our members, and as the newly elected President of the Society I am pleased to convey this opportunity. As the saying goes, Show Me the Money, or in this case, Show Me the Value before I invest any dollar/peso/yen/euro/dinar/ CHF/yuan, etc. So the AES is offering FREE membership for the remainder of 2024 and all of 2025. During this period, we intend to demonstrate the value of the AES through professional networking, educational webinars, special conference sessions, and discounted offerings to various goods and services, particularly from our commercial sponsors. Here is the link to join the AES for free: https://www.aesweb.org/members/join To provide maximum value and demonstrate that the AES is a dynamic organization whose purpose is to serve its members, please provide us with input on how to do that, and we will do our best to meet your needs. As a start, the AES is offering new members the following in 2025: • Access to all society webinars at no cost • Online subscriptions to Elsevier™’s Aquacultural Engineering Journal for $75 (previously $170) • Hardcopy subscriptions to our journal for only $100 (previously $195 ) • AES members will receive discounted registration at Aquaculture 2025 (March 6-10 2025, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA) for being members of an associate sponsor organization ($95 discount). The AES has organized special conference sessions for Aquaculture 2025, and these special sessions are FREE to all who attend Aquaculture 2025. The AES looks forward to welcoming back previous members and seeing many new members join with this new initiative. Notes Michael Timmons, P.E., PhD, President - Aquacultural Engineering Society, and Professor of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University. mbt3@cornell.edu Seafood demand continues to increase, and wild-caught seafood supplies remain static, leaving aquaculture to meet the increasing demand. The AES is needed throughout the global aquaculture sector now more than ever.
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