Timothy Hovanec:  

Life After graduation from RHS, I attended San Diego State University. I spent my junior year abroad attending Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden where I studied limnology. I graduated from SDSU with a B.S. in Biology with Distinction. I then joined the U.S. Peace Corps and was stationed in the Philippines where I was an aquaculture specialist. After the Peace Corps, I returned to San Diego and started working on my Masters degree. After working as a graduate assistant I joined a start-up company called Aquatic Systems Inc (ASI) and was the hatchery manager. While working for ASI I was awarded a M.S. in Biology with my thesis dealing with ammonia toxicity and ammonia excretion in striped bass. ASI became the World's leading producer of farm-raised hybrid striped bass using intensive aquaculture techinques. At ASI, I was also involved in a number of consulting projects for private and governmental organizations and traveled to many different countries conducting site feasibility studies. Eventually, I left ASI and joined Marineland Aquarium Products as the Director of Aquatic Research. Shortly after joining Marineland I also started working on my doctorate at the University of California, Santa Barbara. My...Expand for more