Anne van Dam

Anne van Dam joined IHE in January 2003. He teaches Environmental Modelling and Environmental Systems Analysis.

His research activities are in the areas of sustainable aquatic resource management, nutrient dynamics, and fish growth and ecosystems modelling. His publications cover subjects like fish growth modelling, periphyton-based fish production systems, rice-fish culture and other integrated agriculture-aquaculture systems.

Before joining IHE, he worked as an aquaculture project leader at the Agriculture College of Friesland in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands (1986-1987), as a research associate with the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM, nowadays the World Fish Center) in the Philippines (1987-1990) and Malawi (1990-1992), as a fisheries adviser and coordinator of an institutional development program (funded by Nuffic) at the Universidad Nacional in Heredia, Costa Rica (1996-1999), and as a postdoc researcher and program manager at the Fish Culture and Fisheries Group of Wageningen University (1999-2002).

He obtained his academic degrees at Wageningen University: BSc in Animal Science (1983), MSc in Animal Science, specialized in aquaculture (1986), and PhD in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (1992-1995). His PhD-thesis was entitled "Modelling studies of fish production in integrated agriculture-aquaculture systems".

Main disciplines

Ecosystems analysis, nutrient dynamics, fish growth, aquaculture, ecosystems modelling, wetland ecology and management

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