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Pia Winberg

Pia Winberg MD, PhD

Healthcare Management
Sanctuary point, New South Wales, Australia

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Pia Winberg has worked across both sustainable marine industry development and academia for the past 20 years and has a background is in marine systems ecology. Pia’s main research interest is in marine food production systems that are sustainably integrated with the coastal and marine environment. Pia’s published research efforts therefore span aquaculture and sustainable estuarine systems. Pia has developed a focus on the development of seaweed cultivation systems for Australia. Australia is placed to contribute to the value adding of seaweed metabolites, species diversity in culture and quality control systems from production to processing.

Pia has developed pilot-scale, integrated, marine aquaculture systems with private industry, conducts research and development in collaboration with the aquaculture industries in three states, and has been a key driver of seaweed networks, research and development in Australia and internationally. Pia believes that marine farming opportunities in the ocean, if sensitively and ecologically incorporated into the ecosystem, are a necessary way forward to achieving sustainable food production technology for the future. A core aspect of this is the potential for seaweed cultivation for a range of markets ranging from food, health and medical products, agricultural and aquaculture applications.
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