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Manager of the Hawaii state Aquaculture Development Program (ADP), is a charter member of the CTSA Board of Directors. He is co-author of Aquaculture Development for Hawaii, the first comprehensive state aquaculture plan in the nation. In December 1978, he became manager of ADP, which is charged with implementing the state plan through planning and policy development, providing support services, and funding research, development and demonstration projects. During his tenure, the Hawaii aquaculture industry has grown from less than $2 million a year to more than $34 million a year.

Corbin earned a bachelor's degree in zoology and chemistry from the University of Miami. He went on to earn a master's degree in biological oceanography from the University of Hawaii. He is a member of the National Association of State Aquaculture Coordinators. He is author or co-author of numerous papers and articles on aquaculture research, planning and development in Hawaii and the Pacific. These include Hawaii's 1993 comprehensive long-range aquaculture development strategy
Hawaii's Future in Aquaculture: Strategy for the Blue Revolution and a chapter for the 1997 book Sustainable Aquaculture. In 1984, he was awarded the Governor's Distinguished State Service Award. 

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John Corbin

a marine biologist, joined the CTSA Board of Directors in March 2000 after being appointed director of the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program. A professor of zoology at the University of Hawaii, Dr. Grau earned a doctorate in zoology from the University of Delaware, Newark and conducted postdoctoral studies at the University of California at Berkeley.  His research has focused on investigating biotechnology opportunities for enhancing fish growth and development.  From 1990 until 1994, Dr. Grau served as associate director of the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology and as interim director from 1994-2000.  He is author or co-author of nearly 100 scientific papers on topics in his areas of interest of neuroendocrinology, hormonal regulation of growth and development in fish, and cell and molecular biology of environmental adaptation.

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E. Gordon Grau, Ph.D

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