Kenneth Adair Aquaculture
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Kenneth Adair Aquaculture

Kenneth Adair 306 Venice Drive Boynton Beach, FL 33426 Mobile: ------------ Email: ------------ Education: Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL United States Bachelor's Degree 05/2016 GPA: 3.4 of a maximum 4.0 Credits Earned: 143 Semester hours Major: Biology Focus: Marine Biology Honors: Cum Laude Relevant Coursework: 1. Freshwater Ecology 2. Aquaculture and Environment 3. Marine Ecology 4. Marine Biodiversity 5. Honors Marine Conservation 6. Honors Coral Reef Ecology 7. Coastal and Marine Science 8. Ocean Exploration (3-day research cruise on research vessel Bellows in the Gulf) 9. Marine Biology 10. Symbiosis (Graduate level) 11. Natural history of the Indian River Lagoon (Graduate Level) 13. Environment and Society 13. Field Studies in Marine Science Fish Species I Have Worked With/Bred: 1.Cobia (Rachycentron canadum?) 2.Neptune grouper (Cephalopholis igarashiensis?) 3.Blackstripe basslet (Liopropoma latifasciatum?) 4.Flame angelfish (Centropyge loriculus?) 5.Coral Beauty angelfish (Centropyge nispinosa?) 6.Cherubfish argi (Centropyge argi?) 7.Bicolor angelfish (Centropyge bicolor?) 8.Midnight angelfish (Centropyge nox?) 9.Abei angelfish (Centropyge abei?) 10.Multibar angelfish (Paracentropyge multifasciata?) 11.Spotbreast angelfish (Genicanthus melanospilos?) 12.Blackedged angelfish (Genicanthus watanabei?) 13.Blueface angelfish (Pomacanthus xanthometopon?) 14.Earl�s fairy wrasse (Cirrhilabrus earlei?) 15.Melanurus wrasse (Halichoeres melanurus?) 16.Bumphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum?) 17.Very Long nosed butterflyfish (Forcipiger longirostris?) 18.Schooling bannerfish (Heniochus diphreutes?) 19.Bicolor goatfish (Parupeneus barberinoides?) 20.Lyretail anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis?) 21.Dispar anthias (Pseudanthias dispar?) 22.Squareback anthias (Pseudanthias pleurotaenia?) 23.Purple anthias (Pseudanthias pascalus?) 24.Blotched anthias (Odontanthias borbonius?) 25.Two-barred rabbitfish (Siganus virgatus?) 26.Goldline rabbitfish (Siganus lineatus?) 27.Red scooter blenny (Synchiropus stellatus?) 28.Scooter blenny (Synchiropus ocellatus?) 29.Ruby red scooter blenny (Synchiropus sp.?) 30.Spotted mandarin (Synchiropus picturatus?) 31.Mandarin dragonet (Synchiropus splendidus?) 32.Marine betta (Calloplesiops altivelis?) 33.Eastern hulafish (Trachinops taeniatus?) 34.Bristle-tail filefish (Acreichthys tomentosus?) 35.Radial filefish (Acreichthys radiatus?) 36.White spotted filefish (Rudarius ercodes?) 37.Mimic filefish (Paraluterus prionurus?) 38.Yellowtail damsel (Chrysiptera parasema?) 39.Springer�s damselfish (Chrysiptera springeri?) 40.Orangetail blue damselfish (Chrysiptera cyanea?) 41.Lemon damselfish (Pomacentris moluccensis?) 42.Peacock damselfish (Pomacentris pavo?) 43.Chromis abyssus (Chromis abyssus?) 44.Sailfin cardinalfish (Quinca mirifica?) 45.Pajama cardinalfish (Spaeramia nematoptera?) 46.Orbic cardinalfish (Sphareamia orbicularis?) 47.Black cardinalfish (Apogonichthyoides melas?) 48.Banggai cardinalfish (Pterapogon kauderni?) 49.Blue streak cardinalfish (Zoramia leptacantha?) 50.Margarita cardinalfish (Ostorhinchus margaritophorus?) 51.Yellow cardinalfish (Ostorhinchus luteus?) 52.Sevenstriped cardinalfish (Ostorhinchus novemfasciatus?) 53.Yellowstriped cardinalfish (Ostorhinchus cyanosoma?) 54.Blacklined cardinalfish (Ostorhinchus nigrofasciatus?) 55.Seale�s cardinalfish (Ostorhinchus sealei?) 56.Ochre-striped cardinalfish (Ostorhinchus compressus?) 57.Flamefish (Apogon maculates?) 58.Bigeye cardinalfish (Nectamia bandanensis?) 59.Yellow assessor (Assessor flavissimus?) 60.Randall�s assessor (Assessor randalli?) 61.Purple firefish (Nemateleotris decora?) 62.Firefish (Nemateleotris magnifica?) 63.Oyster crested goby (Cyrptocentroides gobiodes?) 64.Pink spotted watchman goby (Cryptocentrus leptocephalus?) 65.Bluefin watchman goby (Cryptocentrus fasciatus?) 66.Yellow watchman goby (Cryptocentrus cinctus?) 67.Transparent cave goby (Fusigobius pallidus?) 68.Jaguar goby (Gobiopsis quinquecincta?) 69.Neon goby (Elacatinus oceanops?) 70.Yellowline goby (Elacatinus figaro?) 71.Sharknose goby (Elacatinus evelynae?) 72.Greenbanded goby (Tigrigobius multifasciatus?) 73.Tiger goby (Tigrigobius macrodon?) 74.Circus goby (Priolepis nocturna?) 75.Masked goby (Coryphopterus personatus?) 76.Red-lined pygmy goby (Trimma striatum?) 77.Upside down pygmy goby (Trimma caesiura?) 78.Ring-eye pygmy goby (Trimma benjamini?) 79.Big eye pygmy goby (Trimma macrophthalmum?) 80.Rainford�s goby (Koumansetta rainfordi?) 81.Hector�s goby (Koumansetta hectori?) 82.Link�s goby (Amblygobius linki?) 83.Speartail goby (Amblygobius esakiae?) 84.Buan goby (Amblygobius buanensis?) 85.Citron goby (Gobiodon citrinus?) 86.Yellow clown goby (Gobiodon okinawae?) 87.Green clown goby (Gobiodon atrangulatus?) 88.Starry goby (Asterropteryx semipunctata?) 89.Spotted seahorse (Hippocampus kuda?) 90.Tiger tail seahorse (Hippocampus comes?) 91.Bundoon blenny (Meiacanthus bundoon?) 92.Kamohara blenny (Meiacanthus kamoharai?) 93.Smith�s blenny (Meiacanthus smithi?) 94.Blackline blenny (Meiacanthus nigrolineatus?) 95.Harptail blenny (Meiacanthus mossambicus?) 96.Canary blenny (Meiacanthus oualanensis?) 97.Striped blenny (Meiacanthus grammistes?) 98.Forktail blenny (Meiacanthus atrodorsalis?) 99.Linear blenny (Ecsenius lineatus?) 100.Black comb-tooth blenny (Ecsenius namiyei?) 101.Bicolor blenny (Ecsenius bicolor?) 102.White spotted blenny (Salarias alboguttatus?) 103.Segmented (Salarias segmentatus?) 104.Black sailfin blenny (Atrosalarias fuscus?) 105.Yellow dottyback (Pseudochromis fuscus?) 106.Neon dottyback (Pseudochromis aldabraensis?) 107.Black neon dottyback (P. aldabraensis x springeri?) 108.Elongate dottyback (Pseudochromis elongates?) 109.Sunrise dottyback (Pseudochromis flavivertex?) 110.Orchid dottyback (Pseudochromis fridmani?) 111.Electric Indigo dottyback (P. fridmani x sankeyi?) 112.Indigo dottyback (P. fridmani x sankeyi?) 113.Bicolor dottyback (Pictichromis paccagnellae?) 114.Striped dottyback (Pseudochromis sankeyi?) 115.Splendid dottyback (Manonichthys splendens?) 116.Springer�s dottyback (Pseudochromis springeri?) 117.Longfin dottyback (Manonichthys polynemus?) 118.Red serosa dottyback (Pseudoplesiops typus?) 119.Strawberry dottyback (Pictichromis porphyrea?) 120.Ocellaris clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris?) 121.Maroon clownfish (Premnas biaculeatus?) 122.Percula clownfish (Amphiprion percula?) 123.Clarkii clownfish (Amphiprion clarkii?)124.Tomato clownfish (Amphiprion frenatus?) 125.Cinnamon clownfish (Amphiprion melanopus?) 126.Fire clownfish (Amphiprion ephippium?) 127.Barberi clownfish (Amphiprion barberi?) 128.McCullochi clownfish (Amphiprion mccullochi?) 129.Red Sea Two-Band clownfish (Amphiprion bicinctus?) 130.Saddle-Back clownfish (Amphiprion polymnus?) 131.Pink Skunk clownfish (Amphiprion perideraion?) 132.Orange Skunk clownfish (Amphiprion sandaracinos?) 133.White Bonnet clownfish (Amphiprion leucokranos?) 134. Black-footed clownfish (Amphiprion nigripes?) 135.Barrier reef anemonefish (Amphiprion akindynos?) 136.Mauritian anemonefish (Amphiprion chrysogaster?) 137.Madagascar anemonefish (Amphiprion latifasciatus?) Work Experience:Atlantic Blue Aquariums 1399 North Killian Dr Bay 6 West Palm Beach, FL 33403 5/2019 - 8/2019 Hours per week: 25-40 Aquarium Service Technician/In-store Sales Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills: Duties: 1. Perform system maintenance on customers aquariums. 2. Build and install new aquariums. 3. Complete daily husbandry requirements for all fish in livestock room. 4. Assist and inform customers with questions about their system. Supervisor: Tommy Yannopoulos ------------) Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes Biota Marine Life Nursery Airai Old Dock, Ordomel, Airai 96940, Palau 2/2018 - 11/2018 Hours per week: 40-50 Broodstock Manager/System and Egg Collection Design Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills: Duties: 1. Acclimate and quarantine newly acquired broodstock. 2. Create new breeding pairs or harems for each target species. 3. Create feeding protocol to condition each species for spawning. 4. Oversee and perform disease treatment/prevention for each system by examining fish behavior and condition and when needed scope fish using a skin scrape and gill clipping.(Treatments performed include; praziquantel, cupramine, fenbendazole, formalin 37%, methylene blue, and melafix). 5. Complete daily husbandry requirements (feeding, cleaning, water quality, system temperature). 6. Oversee daily feed consumption and spawning of all broodstock systems. 7. Insure all filtration equipment is well maintained on all systems. 8. Design and build new brookstock systems. 9. Design and build egg collection devices for pelagic spawning species. 10. Manage photoperiod and temperature to induce spawning. 11. Prepare broostock gelatin feed weekly. Supervisor: Tom Bowling Okay to contact this Supervisor: Ocean�s Reefs and Aquariums LLC (ORA) 5600 US 1 Fort Pierce, FL 34946 United States 8/2016 - 1/2018 Hours per week: 40 Aquaculture/Lab Technician/Broodstock Technician Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills: Duties: 1. Perform weekly water quality assessments of each system. 2. Insure all lab equipment is organized and well maintained. 3. Oversee and perform disease treatment/prevention for each system by examining fish behavior and condition and when needed scope fish using a skin scrape and gill clipping. 4. Complete daily husbandry up-keep (feedings, water quality, system temperature). 5. Oversee daily feed consumption and growth of juvenile fish in 17 growout systems. 6. Insure all filtration equipment is well maintained on all systems. 7. Sort fish by size, quality and species. 8. Perform daily husbandry requirements for hundreds of broodstock tanks. 9. Pair new broodstock fish and observe for compatibility. 10. Condition and get new broodstock species to spawn. 11. Observe behavior and condition of broodstock and treat for disease or sickness when necessary. 12. Prepare broodstock feed bi-weekly. Supervisor: Kevin Reinecke ------------) Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes Amy's Island Seafood 5600 US 1 Fort Pierce, FL 34946 United States 12/2015 - 8/2016 Hours per week: 40 Aquaculture/Lab Technician Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills: Duties: 1. Perform twice weekly water quality assessments of each system. 2. Insure all lab equipment is organized and well maintained. 3. Oversee and perform the culture and enrichment of live feeds (Rotifers and artemia). 4. Complete daily husbandry up keep (feedings, water quality, system temperature and light manipulation and egg collection) for three Cobia (Rachycentron canadum) broodstock tanks. 5. Oversee daily feed consumption and growth of juvenile fish in 23 growout tanks. 6. Insure all filtration equipment is well maintained on all systems. 7. Oversee amphipod culture research. 8. Larval cobia culture from egg to market size. 9. Sort fish by size. 10. Harvest market size fish and process them for sale. Supervisor: Amy Zwemer ------------) Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes Florida International University 11200 SW 8th St Miami, FL 33199 United States 09/2015 - 02/2016 Hours per week: 25 Research Assistant Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills: Duties: 1. Collect fin clip tissue samples from Snook and prey samples for stable isotope analysts. 2. Prepare all samples for isotope analysts. 3. Help all other graduate researchers in the same lab with their ongoing research whenever needed. 4. Electrofishing sampling for an ongoing research project with Snook, Bass and Bowfin conducted by Dr. Jennifer Rehage. 5. Attend lab meetings and discuss other student�s research and exchange ideas for each other�s projects. Supervisor: Ross Boucek ------------) Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes Costco Wholesale 17800 Congress Ave Boca Raton, FL 33487 United States 12/2013 - 05/2014 Hours per week: 25-40 Front End/Cashier AssistantDuties, Accomplishments and Related Skills: 1. Assist customers with their merchandise. 2. Collect and return all shopping carts. Supervisor: Multiple supervisors ------------) Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes Rare Reef 2455 Old Dixie Hwy Delray Beach, FL 33483 United States 03/2013 - 07/2013 Hours per week: 25 Aquarium Technician/Marine Products Collector Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills: 1. Set up and maintain new holding tanks for fish and coral imports. 2. Collect invertebrates and fish in the Florida Keys under their Marine Products License. Supervisor: Russell Goddard Okay to contact this Supervisor: Aquateq 2600 Hammondville Rd Pompano Beach, FL 33069 United States 06/2012 - 02/2013 Hours per week: 25 Aquarist / Aquarium Technician Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills: 1. Maintain and insure that all clients reef aquariums were operating smoothly and all husbandry requirements were taken care of for each animal housed in each customer�s aquarium. 2. Set up and help design customers new aquariums. 3. Perform routine water quality assessment for each client. Supervisor: Dan Vandenburg ------------) Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes Zill High Performance Plants 7424 Hypoluxo Farms Rd Lake Worth, FL 33463 United States Summers 2008- 2011 Hours per week: 30-40 Fruit Harvester/Deliveries Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills: 1. Harvest many different tropical fruits and around 40 varieties of mangos. 2. Help deliver wholesale fruit trees all over south Florida to different plant nurseries. Supervisor: Gary Zill ------------) Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes Volunteer Experience: FWC Okeechobee Biological Field Station. Feb. 2014-March2015 ?Electro-fishing in Lake Okeechobee out of Belle Glade and Pahokee with Alyssa Jordan. I identified each fish to species and recorded total length and weight of all fish collected at each site. ?Collecting invasive apple snails with Tyler Beck and Alyssa Jordan from several different locations in the North West region of the Lake for bio assay study I conducted with the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) under Bruce Sharfstein and Dr. Dean Monette. ?Tagging and monitoring the movement of invasive apple snails through the use of radio telemetry for an ongoing research project that began in 2009 conducted by Dr. Dean Monette at FAU in order to better understand their ecological role in the system. We used a quadrat to collect data on the vegetation that was present where each tagged snail was recaptured. This was recorded as well as their location using a Trimble device. FWC Lake Worth Lagoon Survey Fall 2014 ?Alongside Dr. Scott Markwith and FWC biologists I helped survey areas near ongoing restoration projects for species richness and abundance using boat launched 150� and 75� seine nets. I helped identify down to species and count all fish that were caught for each haul that was conducted measuring the standard length of first 10 individuals of each species. FIU Dr. Jennifer Rehage�s Lab (Gregory Hill) June 2014-December 2014 ?I assisted Gregory Hill M.S. with the work he was doing using LILA (Loxahatchee Impoundment Landscape Assessment) to research the movement patterns of the warmouth sunfish with the rise and fall of water levels. He showed me how he set up the data collection equipment and how it worked. I also helped him collect crayfish in order to tag them with Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tags and monitor their movement within the enclosures as well. FIU Dr. Jennifer Rehage�s Lab (Ross Boucek) Summer 2014 ?I helped collect measurements, diet samples, and to tag Snook, Bass, and Bowfin in the Florida Everglades with Ross Boucek (PhD candidate) using PIT tags for each one collected and Vemco acoustic tags on larger Snook and Bass. The data collected was added to his database for his research on understanding the importance of freshwater inflows to recreational fisheries in the Everglades estuary. ?I later worked in the Rehage lab with another student helping process the diet samples collected by Ross Boucek over the last year or so identifying down to species or genus if the condition of sample made this possible. FAU Dr. Dean MonetteFeb. 2014- Fall 2014 ?Alongside other students and the FWC and SFWMD I helped Dean Monette track and monitor the movement and preferred vegetation of the invasive apple snail in the North section of Lake Okeechobee. I gained experience with using telemetry equipment and with surveying areas using a quadrat. Jonathan Dickinson State Park Summer 2014? ? Participated in the Florida Scrub Jay walk to help assess their population within the park. Helped with removal of invasive plants located in the park. Job Related Training: ? ? CPR and first aid completed Fall 2012. IACUC Fish certification, basic animal certification. 2014 References: Name Dr. Dean Monette Dr. Ross Boucek Daniel Vandenburg Phone ------------ ------------ ------------ Tommy Yannopoulos------------