Efficient Production of Nutritious Seafood near Consumer Markets to Complement Healthy Lifestyle Choices ($599,919)

Sustainable Seafood Security: An Exchange Program to Promote Responsible Aquaculture Actions ($25,000)

Sustainable Aquaculture System for Shrimp and Algae Increasing Yield (SASSY) ($50,471 – KSU Portion)

Practical, Brackish-Water Aquaponics to Supply Year-Round Farmer Income And Fresh, Nutritious Food to Underserved Communities ($599,062)

Integrating Aquatic and Terrestrial Agricultural Systems to Enhance Sustainable Food Production ($299,667)

Demonstration and technology transfer of biofloc marine shrimp production to the private sector along the northern Gulf of Mexico ($300,000; KSU portion = $76.000)

An Algae-based Platform for the Production of Food and Fuel from Waste Water and Carbon Dioxide ($6,000,000; KSU portion = $1,336,916)

Submitted September 2020 to USDA-NIFA 1890 Capacity Building Grant Program

Resubmitted October 2021, reviewers liked the research but not the extension component

Submitted March, 2020 to the U.S.-Mexico Innovation Fund

A collaboration between KSU and the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico

Submitted May 2020 to the USDA-NIFA Aquaculture Research Program

A collaboration between KSU and New Mexico State University

Submitted May 31, 2017 to the USDA-NIFA 1890 Capacity Building Grants Program

Re-submitted in 2018 and it was selected for funding

A collaboration between KSU, Providence Montessori Middle School (Lexington), Versailles Montessori School (Versailles), Spark Community Café (Versailles), and Foodchain (Lexington)

Submitted November 17, 2015 to the USDA-NIFA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Grants Program

A collaboration between KSU and the University of Southern Mississippi

Submitted November 2, 2015 to the NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Saltonstall-Kennedy Competitive Research Program

A collaboration between KSU, the University of Southern Mississippi, and Auburn University

Submitted February 23, 2015 to the National Science Foundation EPSCoR Program

A collaboration between KSU, University of Kentucky, Nicholls State University, Santa Fe Community College, and the University of Deleware

Bajracharya S., Fisk J., Fleckenstein L., and A.J. Ray. In Review. The effects of system type, salt formulation, and sugar additions on water quality, Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) production, and digestive enzyme activity in intensive RAS. Aquaculture, Submitted, In Review.

Kring N.A., Fleckenstein L.J., Tierney T.W., Fisk J.C., Lawson B.C., and A.J. Ray. 2023. The effects of stocking density and artificial substrates on production of Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) and water quality dynamics in greenhouse-based biofloc systems. Aquacultural Engineering 101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaeng.2023.102322

Fleckenstein L.J., Tierney T.W., Fisk J.C., and A.J. Ray. 2022. Using alternative low-cost artificial sea salt mixtures for intensive, indoor shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) production. Aquaculture Reports 24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aqrep.2022.101147