Dr Rosemary Crichton – Director
Rose holds a PhD from Bangor University in marine ecophysiology. She has extensive experience in aquaculture of algae, shellfish and fish gained through her postgraduate degrees and her employment at three universities and an aquarium. In 2009 Rose became interested in the unique challenges of aquaculture in an aquaponics system and designed and constructed a system primarily focused on tilapia and watercress production which she ran for a year.
Rose has published on aquaponics policy and the application of soil health measures to the hydroponic component of aquaponics systems. Her current research concerns consumer perceptions and willingness to pay for aquaponics products and continues the investigation of the impact of waste from aquaculture on soil and plant health.
Recent publications
Sam Rossiter – Director
Sam lives on a smallholding just outside of Bristol where he helps to run Nibley Leaves, a small salad business. He manages the holding using agroecology and permaculture approaches. He has a particular interest in sustainable protein production
Sam is a great experimenter & tinkerer. He’s a founder of The Travelling Toolbox, a sustainable technology collective who use a mobile workshop to fabricate farm tools and teach fabrication and open source manufacturing to land workers.
Sam has worked with technology and IT for many years, starting his career project managing digital projects for Bristol Wireless. He then went on to set up and ran Nixcom company deploying wireless infrastructure to festivals and events, working with large organisations such as Yahoo!
He’s been earning a living as a web developer and social media manager for several years, at the moment he’s mainly working for Transition Network; the movement of communities reimaging and rebuilding our world. He’s also the founder of The Things Network Bristol, a project aiming to deploy a Free and open source internet of things data network across Bristol.
Sam hopes that the Bristol Fish project can combine his love of plants and gadgets
Alice Marie-Archer – Founder & Ex Director
Alice founded Bristol fish project in late 2011 as a response to the challenges of urban metabolic losses (waste). She saw through other’s experiments that you could use aquaponics as an intervention to close material loops but also to build community and shorten the food delivery chain.
She left Bristol Fish Project at the end of 2018, She’s currently enjoying motherhood and finishing up a PhD on how we could transform the way we make forms in hydroponics. In parallel she mixes more artistic pursuits with lecturing and hosting workshops and with offering advice and consultancy on circular economics in textiles and agrifood domains (see http://www.alicemariearcher.com).
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