Item L6BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: March 20, 2013 Division: District I
Bulk Item: Yes X No Department: Commissioner Dann Ko
Staff Contact /Phone #: Isabel DeSantis, 292-3440
AGENDA ITEM WORDING: Approval for the appointment of Patrick H. Rice, Ph.D. to the
Monroe County RESTORE ACT Advisory Committee.
ITEM BACKGROUND: On February 20, 2013 - the BOCC adopted Resolution No. 094-2013
creating the Monroe County RESTORE ACT Advisory Committee.
PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION: On January 16, 2013 — Agenda item T 1, the BOCC
discussed direction for the RESTORE Act local advisory committee.
CONTRACTAGREEMENT CHANGES:
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS:
TOTAL COST: INDIRECT COST: BUDGETED: Yes No
DIFFERENTIAL OF LOCAL PREFERENCE:
COST TO COUNTY:
SOURCE OF FUNDS:
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes No AMOUNT PER MONTH Year
APPROVED BY: County Atty OMB/Purchasing Risk Management
DOCUMENTATION: Included X - Not Required
DISPOSITION:
Revised 7/09
AGENDA ITEM #
Monroe County Boards and Committees
Appointment Information
Board or Committee: Monroe County RESTORE Act Committee
Commissioner Appointing Member:
Name of Member:
Address:
Mailing Address:
Danny L. Kolhage
Patrick H. Rice, Ph.D.
5901 College Road
Key West, FL 33040
SAA
Phone Numbers: Home:
Work: 305-809-3228
Cell:
Fax:
Email: Patrick. Rice@fkc+c,edu
Date of Appointment: March 20, 2013
(The date of this BOCC agenda item)
Is this a Reappointment? Yes No X
New Term Expiration date: March 20� 2014
Name of Person Being Replaced: N A
Fulfilling Term of: Newly Created
CAD Form/09106/12
Patrick H. Rice, Ph.D.
Patrick H. Rice is the Dean of Marine Science & Technology at Florida
Keys Community College, which is the only institution of higher education
in the Florida Keys and has campuses in the upper middle and lower Keys.
He currently resides as Chair for the Science and Technology Taskforce of
the Florida Keys Environmental Coalition (FKEC), a group of concerned
Y civic, environmental, academic and business professionals formed to
—. provide a unified community voice for environmental issues affecting the
Florida Keys. Dr. Rice also resides on the Wyland Foundation Board
(http:llwww.wylandfoundation.org/), an organization devoted to conservation through art and education.
Dr. Rice also serves as the Director for the Instrumented Underwater Training Systems project at FKCC
and Senior Marine Biologist for SharkDefense Technologies, LLC. (vvww.sliarkdefense.com).
Dr. Rice earned his Ph.D. (2008) at the University of Miami — Rosenstiel School of Marine and
Atmospheric Science (UM--RSMAS) where he studied commercial fisheries in an effort to reduce
unwanted catch (i.e. bvcatch) associated with commercial fishing and provide better catch estimates used
to manage fisheries populations. Dr. Rice is the principal investigator for current NOAA fisheries
research focused on employing shark repellent technology to reduce shark bycatch during commercial
pelagic longline fishing. While attending; UM-RSMAS, Dr. Rice participated in the design, construction,
operations, and management of the University of Miami — Experimental Fish Hatchery. During this time
he also studied at the Inter -American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC), Achotines Yellowfin Tuna
Laboratory, Las Tablas Panama, with a focus on pelagic fish ecology and mariculture techniques for tuna
and billfish.
Dr. Rice earned his Master's Degree (2000) in wildlife and Fisheries Science from Texas A&M
University (TAMU) where he studied ways to improve marine farming technology and reduce pollution
associated with the growing industry. During that time he was awarded an NSF Monbusho Fellowship to
study mariculture in Japan where his primary focus was on culturing bluef n tuna (T hunnus thynnus
orientalis) at the Japanese Seafarming Association's (JSFA) Amami-o-shima Bluefin Tuna facility.
Before entering the MS program at TAMU, Dr. Rice was a volunteer for the United States Peace Corps in
South Pacific Islands of Fiji. His primary responsibility was to teach indigenous Fijians deep within the
interior of the island to culture fish (T'ilapia spp.) for a constant source of protein during times of isolation
from coastal environments during the rainy seasons.
Dr. Rice earned his Bachelor of Science (1992) degree in Biology (Aquatic option) from the University of
Texas — Austin where he conducted residency at the UT Marine Science Institute at Port Aransas, Texas.
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