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Research interests

• The interactive relationship between nutrition, genetics and health in aquaculture practices
• Implementing environmentally-friendly husbandry technologies
• Improving nutrient efficiency via shrimp genetic

CREDENTIALS

• B.S., Ecology and Environmental Biology, Ocean University of China
• M.S., Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Ph.D., Wildlife and Fisheries Science, Texas A&M University

Selected publications

• Gong, H., 2017. How does Penaeus vannamei cope with low salinity water? Aquaculture Magazine 43: 68-70.
• Gong, H., 2017. Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei (EHP): an Emerging pathogen in shrimp aquaculture. Aquaculture Magazine 43: 66-67.
• Jang, I.K., H. Gong., 2016. Growing marine shrimp in the Sahara Desert. Aquaculture Magazine 42: 54-56.
• Gong, H., 2015. RNAi in shrimp immune defense system. Aquaculture Magazine 41: 46-49.
• Gong, H. 2015. Specific pathogen free Penaeus vannamei breeding program at the 91¿ì²¥. Aquaculture Magazine 41: 72-73.
• Gong, H. 2014. Prebiotics in shrimp aquaculture. Aquaculture Magazine 40: 62-64.
• Gong, H. 2014. Probiotics in shrimp aquaculture. Aquaculture Magazine 40: 60-61.
• Gong, H., J.W. Brown. 2012. Using yellowfin tuna roe in a shrimp maturation diet. World Aquaculture 43: 48-52.
• Gong, H., D.H. Jiang, F. Alig, A.L. Lawrence. 2012. Effects of dietary protein level and source on the growth and survival of two genetic lines of specific-pathogen-free Pacific white shrimp, Penaeus vannamei. Aquaculture 338-341: 118-123.
• Gong, H. 2010. Promoting health management of shrimp aquaculture on Guam and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands. Asian Fisheries Science 23: 447-461.
• Ciobanu, D.C., J.W.M. Bastiaansen, J. Magrin, J.L. Rocha, D.H. Jiang, N. Yu, B. Geiger, N. Deeb, D. Rocha, H. Gong, B.P. Kinghorn, G.S. Plastow, H.A.M. van der Steen, A.J. Mileham. 2010. A major SNP resource for dissection of phenotypic and genetic variation in Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei). Animal Genetics 41: 39-47.
• Gong, H., A.L. Lawrence, D.H. Jiang. 2003. Effect of dietary phospholipids on the choline requirement of Litopenaeus vannamei juveniles. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society 34: 289-299.
• Jiang, D.H., A.L. Lawarence, W.H. Neill, H. Gong. 2000. Effects of temperature and salinity on nitrogenous excretion by Litopenaeus vannamei juveniles. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 253: 193-209.
• Gong, H., A.L. Lawrence, D.H. Jiang, F.L. Castille, D.M. Gatlin III. 2000. Lipid nutrition of juvenile Litopenaeus vannamei: I. Dietary cholesterol and de-oiled soy lecithin requirements and their interaction. Aquaculture 190: 305-324.

ABOUT

Dr. Kirk Johnson was raised for most of his childhood in the mountains of Western India, where he attended an International Baha’i School with students from over 34 different countries. This experience had a profound and indelible impact on his life, world view, and the course of his future career. He returned to the United States for university at the age of 17 and found himself drawn to the social sciences while an undergraduate at Fort Hays State University in Kansas. After earning his baccalaureate degree, he moved to Ohio University, where he earned two master’s degrees in sociology and in international development. Dr. Johnson’s doctoral research while at in Montreal Canada took him back to the mountains of his youth where he explored the influence of television on the lives of villagers in India. Ìý

He then moved to the Pacific, where he has worked at the 91¿ì²¥ as a professor of sociology for the past two decades. Dr. Johnson has served as director of the Bali Field School, a community development project, since 2004, providing students an opportunity to explore, through a cross-cultural lens, the dynamics between tradition and modernity, globalization and the survival of indigenous peoples and cultures, and highlights the complexity and tensions of social change in the 21st century.ÌýHis work and service has taken him throughout the Pacific to island nations includingÌýPapua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa, Kiribati, Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Hawaii, the Northern Mariana Islands, and New Zealand. His work in Asia has been primarily in India and Indonesia.Ìý

He has published numerous books and journal articles, given over 30 conference presentations around the world focusing on research in the areas of development and social change, religion and education, human ecology, and sustainability. Dr. Johnson’s ongoing work in the Pacific Asia region has allowed him to learn firsthand about the processes of community development and capacity building at the grassroots in many different settings.Ìý

Professional history

• Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION/credentials

• B.A., Sociology, Fort Hays State University (Kansas)
• M.A., Sociology and International Development, Ohio University
• Ph.D., Sociology, McGill University (Canada)

Bali Field School

Click on the links below to find out more about the Bali Field School, an annual course that is held each year over spring break.

• View Highlights from the 2015 Bali Field School

Student Research and Service

DOCUMENTARY

The 2007 Bali Field School produced a five-part documentary series titled "Casting Our Net: Rediscovering Community in the 21st Century." It has been screened at three international academic conferences as well as in Bali, Indonesia.

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