JOHN H. RYTHER, SR. Consulting
Aquatic Biologist
CR
Environmental, Inc. 1995 to Present
Years
with Other Firms: 44 years
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
·
Fisheries
·
Aquaculture
·
Phytoplankton
·
Eutrophication
·
Biological
Oceanography
EDUCATION
1990 Honorary D.Sc., Long
Island University
1979 Honorary D.Sc.,
University of New Hampshire
1951 Ph.D., Harvard
University
1950 M.A., Harvard University
1947 B.A., Harvard University
(cum laude)
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
AND SOCIETIES
Phi
Beta Kappa
Fellow,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Member,
Florida Academy of Sciences
Member,
World Mariculture Society
Steering
Committee, Marine Resources Council for East Central Florida
Director,
Florida Aquaculture Association
Visiting
Committee, Florida Institute of Technology
Corporation
Member, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole 1955 - 1981
Corporation
Member, Bermuda Biological Station, St. Georges
1955
- 1962
President,
Bermuda Biological Station, St. Georges
1961
- 1962
SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Dr.
Ryther is a scientist emeritus at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. He attended limnological courses at the
University of Ohio’s field station on Lake Erie. During his 44 year career at WHOI, the University of Florida at
Gainesville, and the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, he participated
in numerous biological research cruises, eutrophication, fisheries and aquaculture studies, and authored
approximately 100 publications. More
recently, as a CR Environmental employee, he contributed to two Massachusetts
District Commission funded studies: 1) Assessing water quality and fisheries
status on the Upper Charles River Reservation and 2) summarizing mercury
contamination in fish of the Quabbin and Wachusett Reservoirs. Past research in
cooperation with the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife involved
trying to restore anadromous brook trout “salter” trout populations to the
Mashpee River, a small estuarine stream on Cape Cod; and more recently for Trout Unlimited conducting a
state-of-the-knowledge survey of the behavior of anandromous brook trout while
visiting streams from Long Island to the Canadian Maritimes. Other research of Dr. Ryther’s has focussed
on the effects of eutrophication on the freshwater and coastal environment.
While at WHOI and the Harbor Branch Institution in Fort Pierce Florida where he
was Director of the Applied Biology he grew phytoplankton on wastewater under
controlled conditions and fed it to commercially valuable molluscs and
commercially useful seaweed for agar or biomass conversion. At the present
time, he is a book on primary productivity and fish production.
WORK HISTORY
CR Environmental, Inc. 1995
- present
A part-time employee providing technical
expertise in the areas of water quality, fisheries, aquaculture and
eutrophication.
Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institute 1951
- present
Research associate, marine biologist,
senior scientist, Chairman of the Department of Biology, Director Coastal
Research Center, guest investigator, and presently a scientist emeritus.
Harbor Branch
Oceanographic Institution, Inc. 1983
- 1987
Director of the Division of
Applied Biology in Ft. Pierce, Florida.
Florida Institute of
Technology 1981
- present
Adjunct Professor of
Oceanography.
University of Florida at
Gainesville
Professor of Aquaculture, School of
Forest Resources and Conservation
Adjunct
Professor of Aquaculture 1983
- present
CONSULTING
Massachusetts
Water Resources Authority 1989
- 1996
Sea
Farm, Inc., Greenwich, CT 1989
- present
Harbor
Branch Oceanographic Institute 1987
- present
Southeastern
Massachusetts University, North Dartmouth,MA 1987
SynCo
Consultants, Inc., Pittsurgh, PA 1984-1986
Metcalf
& Eddy, Inc., Boston, MA 1979
- present
Camp,
Dresser and McKee, Inc., Boston, MA 1978
- 1980
Florida
Power and Light Company 1975
- present
Vermont
Yankee Atomic Power Company 1975
- 1979
Southern
California Coastal Water Research Project, Consulting Board
1973 - 1979
Main
Yankee Atomic Power 1967
- 1979
Boston
Edison Company 1967
- 1978
National
Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development
1967
Department
of the Interior, Bureau of Sports Fisheries & Wildlife 1964 - 1968
National
Institutes of Health 1960
- 1965
National
Science Foundation 1955
- 1975
COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS
Committee
on Assessment of Technology and Opportunities for Marine
Aquaculture in the U.S.,
National Research Council 1990 - 1992
Florida
Agricultural Advisory Council 1984
- 1987
Florida
Aquaculture Review Council 1984
- 1987
Walt
Disney World Advisory Board for Living Seas Pavilion 1980 - 1986
Editorial
Board Member, Aquaculture, Marine Ecology Progress Series,
Biological Oceanography
Biological
Oceanographic Delegation to South Korea
June-July
1979
National
Science Foundation Polar Programs: Advisory Panel 1978 - 1980
CSCPRC:
Member, U.S. Delegation of Oceanographers to China Sept-Oct 1978
International
Council for the Exploration of the Sea: Member,
Committee on Mariculture
1978
- 1985
National
Academy of Sciences, Committee on Aquaculture: Member,
Steering Committee 1976
- 1977
New
England Aquarium: Scientific Advisory Committee 1974
- 1981
Brookhaven
National Laboratory, Dept. of Applied Science
Visiting Committee 1975
- 1981
International
Atlantic Salmon Foundation: Scientific Advisory
Committee 1974
- 1981
U.S.
Marine Mammal Commission 1973
- 1975
National
Academy of Sciences, Comm. of Natural Resources 1973
- 1975
President's
Science Advisor Committee: Panel on Biological
Oceanography 1966
National
Academy of Sciences Committee on Oceanography: National
Academy of Engineering Committee
on Ocean Engineering:
Steering Committee on Coastal
Waste Management 1968
Department of the Navy:
Oceanographic Advisory Committee 1968
Department
of the Interior: MRDP Advisory Committee 1967
Associated
Universities, Inc.: Chairman, Tropical Laboratory
Study Committee 1966
- 1967
International
Indian Ocean Expedition: Director, U.S. Biological
Program (NSF) 1963
- 1967
PUBLICATIONS
Approximately
100 publications from 1954 to 1998. Entire list available upon request.
Project Relevant
Publications:
Ryther,
J.H. 1954. The ecology of phytoplankton
blooms in Moriches Bay and Great South Bay, Long Island, New York. Biol.
Bull., 106: 198-209.
Ryther,
J.H. 1955. Ecology of autotrophic marine
dinoflagellates with reference to red water conditions.
In: The Luminescence of Biological Systems. Frank H. Johnson, Ed., AAAS,
Washington, D.C. pp. 387-414.
Ryther,
J.H. and C.S. Yentsch. 1957. The
estimation of phytoplankton production in the ocean from chlorophyll and light
data. Limnol. Oceanog. 2: 281-286.
Ketchum,
H.B., J.H. Ryther, C.S. Yentsch and N. Corwin. Productivity in relation to nutrients. Rapp. et Proc. Verb. Cons.
Int. Explor. Mer. 144: 132-140.
Ryther,
J.H. , C.S. Yentsch, E.M. Hulbert and R.F. Vaccaro. The dynamics of a diatom bloom. Biol. Bull. 115: 257-268.
Ryther,
J.H and C.S. Yentsch. 1958. Primary
production of Continental Shelf waters off New York. Limnol. Oceanog. 3:
327-335.
Ryther,
J.H. and R.L. Guillard. 1959. Enrichment
experiments as a means of studying nutrients limiting to phytoplankton
production. Deep-Sea Res. 6: 65-69.
Ryther,
J.H. 1960. Organic production by
plankton algae, and its environmental control. In: The Ecology of Algae.
The Pymatuning Symposia Ecology, Spec. Publ. 2, Pymatuning Laboratory of Field
Biology, The University of Pittsberg. pp. 72-83.
Ryther,
J.H. and D.D. Kramer. 1961. Relative
iron requirement of some coastal and offshore
plankton
algae. Ecology 42: 444-446.
Menzel,
D.W. and J.H. Ryther. 1961. Nutrients
limiting the production of phytoplankton in the Sargasso Sea,
with special reference to iron. Deep-Sea Res. 7:276-281.
Ryther,
J.H. 1969. Photosynthesis and fish
production in the sea. Science 166: 72-76.
Ryther,
J.H. and W.M. Dunstan. 1971. Nitrogen,
phosphorus and eutrophication in the coastal marine environment. Science
171: 1008-1013.
Ryther,
J.H. 1971. Recycling human wastes to
enhance food production from the sea. Experimental Letters 1: 79-87.
Ryther,
J.H. W.M. Dunstan, K.R. Tenore and J.E. Huguenin. 1972. Controlled eutrophication - increasing
food production from the sea by recylcling human wastes. Bioscience 22(3): 144-152.
Goldman,
J.C., K.R. Tenore, J.H. Ryther and N. Corwin.1974. Inorganic nitrogen removal in a combined tertiary treatment-marine
aquaculture system I. Removal efficineces. Water Research 8: 45-54.
Huguenin,
J.E. and J.H. Ryther. June 1974. Experiences
with a marine aquaculture-tertiary sewage treatment complex. Wastewater use in
the production of food and fiber Proceedings. EPA-660/2-74-041:377-386.
Ryther,
J.H. and J.C. Goldman. 1974. A waste
recylcling-marine aquaculture system. Fourth Food-Drugs from the Sea
Conference, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Nov. 17-21.
Goldman,
J.C. and J.H. Ryther. 1975. Nutrient
transformations in mass cultures of marine algae. J. Environ. Engr. Div.,
American Society of Civil Engineers: 101, EE 3: 351-364.
Ryther,
J.H. and K.R. Tenore.1976. Integrated
Systems of Mollusk Culture. In: Harvesting Polluted Waters. O.Kevik, Ed.
Plenum Publishing Corp., New York, pp. 153-167.
Goldman,
J.C. and J.H. Ryther. 1976. Waste
reclamation in an integrated food chain system. In: Biological Control of Water
Pollution. Eds. J. Toubier and R.W. Pierson, Jr., University ofPennsylvania press, Philadelphia, PA.
pp. 197-214.
Officer,
C.B. and J.H. ryther. 1977. Secondary
sewage treatment versus ocean outfalls: An assessment. Science 197:
1056-1060.
Ryther,
J.H., L.D. Williams and D.C. Kneale. 1977.
A fresh water waste recylcling-aquaculture system. Florida Scientist 40:
130-135.
Ryther,
J.H., T.A. Debusk, M.D. Hanisak and L.D. Williams. 1979. Fresh water macrophytes for energy and wastewater treatment. Proc.
National Symposium on Wetlands, Lake Bueana Vista,
Florida. November 7-9, 1978
Officer,
C.B. and J.H. Ryther. 1980. The possible
importance of silicon in marine eutrophication. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 3:
83-91.
Ryther,
J.H. and C.B. Officer. 1981. Impact of
nutrient enrichment of water uses.
In: Estuaries and Nutrients.
Neilson, B.J. and L.E. Cronin (Eds.). The Humana Press. pp. 247-261.
Ryther,
J.H. 1989. Historical perspective of
phytoplankton blooms of Long Island and the green tides of the 1950's. In:
Novel Phytoplankton Blooms, E.M. Cosper, V.M. Blicelj and E.J. Carpenter, (Eds.) Coastal and Estuarine
Studies, 35. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. pp. 375-382.
Recent publications:
Ryther,
J. H. September 1997. Anadromous Brook
Trout: Biology, Status and Enhancement. Trout
Unlimited, Inc., 1500 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 310, Arlington, VA 22209.
In prep.
Ryther,
J. H. World Fisheries Production.