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Dr. Ira A. Levine, Ph.D. is a Emeritus Professor at the University of Southern Maine, who recently retired (12/31/2022) to become the CEO of the Algae Foundation. Dr. Levine was: selected as the 2017-2018 University of Southern Maine Trustee Professor; awarded 2016-2017 U.S. State Department’s Distinguished Chair Fulbright and the 2009-2010 U.S. State Department’s Fulbright New Century Scholar. In 2007-2008 he was a visiting professor of biology at Duke University. Dr. Levine combines 37 years of applied and basic research in the physiological ecology and cultivation of algae, aquatic farming management, and aquaculture engineering. His farming experience includes open-ocean and pond cultivation in Canada, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, and USA (Hawaii, Florida, and Maine).
Dr. Levine has authored 36 publications, 90 presentations in 30 countries, 4 book chapters, 1 book and 2 edited books. 28 grants have been awarded totaling $ 7,025,000 over the course of the past 42 years. |