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Dr Richard Cottrell

Honorary Research Fellow

School of the Environment
Faculty of Science
r.cottrell@uq.edu.au

Overview

Rich is an Honorary Research Fellow with UQ School of the Environment and the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science who focuses on how human food production systems affect our planet. His main research interests lie in the field of aquaculture – the farming of fish, seaweeds and aquatic invertebrates – and particularly how this rapidly growing food sector can evolve to sustainably provide a critical source of food and nutrition to a human population growing in number and affluence under global change.

Through data synthesis, spatial analysis, and ecological modelling, Rich’s research aims to understand the trajectory of aquaculture growth through three main approaches. The first focuses on the growth potential of aquaculture in response to demand given its need for space and inputs (e.g., feed). The second is understanding the environmental and social impacts of aquaculture’s current and projected growth. And the third is to understand how this picture changes amid a backdrop of meteorological and geopolitical shock events and sustained pressures of climate change.

He is currently developing decision-making tools for project partners in the aquaculture feed industry to minimise their environmental footprint at both global and local scales.

Publications

  • Journal Article: Towards a nutritional balance of fish for feed and fish for food

    Cottrell, Richard S. (2024). Towards a nutritional balance of fish for feed and fish for food. Nature Food, 5 (3), 1-2. doi: 10.1038/s43016-024-00933-y

  • Journal Article: Having our kelp and eating it too: Minimising trade-offs from seaweed farming

    Spillias, Scott, Cottrell, Richard S., Layton, Cayne, O’Brien, Katherine R. and McDonald-Madden, Eve (2024). Having our kelp and eating it too: Minimising trade-offs from seaweed farming. Journal of Cleaner Production, 448 141150, 141150. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.141150

  • Journal Article: Aquaculture governance: five engagement arenas for sustainability transformation

    Partelow, Stefan, Asif, Furqan, Béné, Christophe, Bush, Simon, Manlosa, Aisa O, Nagel, Ben, Schlüter, Achim, Chadag, Vishnumurthy M, Choudhury, Afrina, Cole, Steven M, Cottrell, Richard S, Gelcich, Stefan, Gentry, Rebecca, Gephart, Jessica A, Glaser, Marion, Johnson, Teresa R, Jonell, Malin, Krause, Geshe, Kunzmann, Andreas, Kühnhold, Holger, Little, Dave C, Marschke, Melissa J, Mizuta, Darien D, Paramita, Adiska O, Pin, Nie, Salayo, Nerissa D, Stentiford, Grant D, Stoll, Joshua, Troell, Max and Turchini, Giovanni M (2023). Aquaculture governance: five engagement arenas for sustainability transformation. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 65 101379, 101379. doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101379

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Publications

Journal Article

  • Towards a nutritional balance of fish for feed and fish for food

    Cottrell, Richard S. (2024). Towards a nutritional balance of fish for feed and fish for food. Nature Food, 5 (3), 1-2. doi: 10.1038/s43016-024-00933-y

  • Having our kelp and eating it too: Minimising trade-offs from seaweed farming

    Spillias, Scott, Cottrell, Richard S., Layton, Cayne, O’Brien, Katherine R. and McDonald-Madden, Eve (2024). Having our kelp and eating it too: Minimising trade-offs from seaweed farming. Journal of Cleaner Production, 448 141150, 141150. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.141150

  • Aquaculture governance: five engagement arenas for sustainability transformation

    Partelow, Stefan, Asif, Furqan, Béné, Christophe, Bush, Simon, Manlosa, Aisa O, Nagel, Ben, Schlüter, Achim, Chadag, Vishnumurthy M, Choudhury, Afrina, Cole, Steven M, Cottrell, Richard S, Gelcich, Stefan, Gentry, Rebecca, Gephart, Jessica A, Glaser, Marion, Johnson, Teresa R, Jonell, Malin, Krause, Geshe, Kunzmann, Andreas, Kühnhold, Holger, Little, Dave C, Marschke, Melissa J, Mizuta, Darien D, Paramita, Adiska O, Pin, Nie, Salayo, Nerissa D, Stentiford, Grant D, Stoll, Joshua, Troell, Max and Turchini, Giovanni M (2023). Aquaculture governance: five engagement arenas for sustainability transformation. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 65 101379, 101379. doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101379

  • Reply to: The environmental footprint of fisheries

    Halpern, Benjamin S., Frazier, Melanie, Rayner, Paul-Eric, Clawson, Gage, Blanchard, Julia L., Cottrell, Richard S., Froehlich, Halley E., Gephart, Jessica A., Jacobsen, Nis Sand, Kuempel, Caitlin D., Moran, Daniel, Nash, Kirsty L. and Williams, David R. (2023). Reply to: The environmental footprint of fisheries. Nature Sustainability, 6 (11), 1314-1315. doi: 10.1038/s41893-023-01223-4

  • Vulnerability of blue foods to human-induced environmental change

    Cao, Ling, Halpern, Benjamin S., Troell, Max, Short, Rebecca, Zeng, Cong, Jiang, Ziyu, Liu, Yue, Zou, Chengxuan, Liu, Chunyu, Liu, Shurong, Liu, Xiangwei, Cheung, William W. L., Cottrell, Richard S., DeClerck, Fabrice, Gelcich, Stefan, Gephart, Jessica A., Godo-Solo, Dakoury, Kaull, Jessie Ihilani, Micheli, Fiorenza, Naylor, Rosamond L., Payne, Hanna J., Selig, Elizabeth R., Sumaila, U. Rashid and Tigchelaar, Michelle (2023). Vulnerability of blue foods to human-induced environmental change. Nature Sustainability, 6 (10), 1186-1198. doi: 10.1038/s41893-023-01156-y

  • Perspectives on aquaculture's contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals for improved human and planetary health

    Troell, Max, Costa‐Pierce, Barry, Stead, Selina, Cottrell, Richard S., Brugere, Cecile, Farmery, Anna K., Little, David C., Strand, Åsa, Pullin, Roger, Soto, Doris, Beveridge, Malcolm, Salie, Khalid, Dresdner, Jorge, Moraes‐Valenti, Patricia, Blanchard, Julia, James, Philip, Yossa, Rodrigue, Allison, Edward, Devaney, Christopher and Barg, Uwe (2023). Perspectives on aquaculture's contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals for improved human and planetary health. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, 54 (2), 251-342. doi: 10.1111/jwas.12946

  • Reducing global land-use pressures with seaweed farming

    Spillias, Scott, Valin, Hugo, Batka, Miroslav, Sperling, Frank, Havlík, Petr, Leclère, David, Cottrell, Richard S., O’Brien, Katherine R. and McDonald-Madden, Eve (2023). Reducing global land-use pressures with seaweed farming. Nature Sustainability, 6 (4), 380-390. doi: 10.1038/s41893-022-01043-y

  • Environmental footprints of farmed chicken and salmon bridge the land and sea

    Kuempel, Caitlin D., Frazier, Melanie, Verstaen, Juliette, Rayner, Paul-Eric, Blanchard, Julia L., Cottrell, Richard S., Froehlich, Halley E., Gephart, Jessica A., Jacobsen, Nis Sand, McIntyre, Peter B., Metian, Marc, Moran, Daniel, Nash, Kirsty L., Többen, Johannes, Williams, David R. and Halpern, Benjamin S. (2023). Environmental footprints of farmed chicken and salmon bridge the land and sea. Current Biology, 33 (5), 990-997.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.01.037

  • The empirical evidence for the social-ecological impacts of seaweed farming

    Spillias, Scott, Kelly, Rachel, Cottrell, Richard S., O’Brien, Katherine R., Im, Ran-Young, Kim, Ji Yoon, Lei, Chuan, Leung, Rainbow W. S., Matsuba, Misako, Reis, Juliana Albano, Sato, Yoichi, Sempert, Kai and McDonald-Madden, Eve (2023). The empirical evidence for the social-ecological impacts of seaweed farming. PLoS Sustainability and Transformation, 2 (2) e0000042, 1-23. doi: 10.1371/journal.pstr.0000042

  • The environmental footprint of global food production

    Halpern, Benjamin S., Frazier, Melanie, Verstaen, Juliette, Rayner, Paul-Eric, Clawson, Gage, Blanchard, Julia L., Cottrell, Richard S., Froehlich, Halley E., Gephart, Jessica A., Jacobsen, Nis S., Kuempel, Caitlin D., McIntyre, Peter B., Metian, Marc, Moran, Daniel, Nash, Kirsty L., Többen, Johannes and Williams, David R. (2022). The environmental footprint of global food production. Nature Sustainability, 5 (12), 1027-1039. doi: 10.1038/s41893-022-00965-x

  • Expert perceptions of seaweed farming for sustainable development

    Spillias, Scott, Cottrell, Richard S., Kelly, Rachel, O’Brien, Katherine R., Adams, John, Bellgrove, Alecia, Kelly, Bronagh, Kilpatrick, Carley, Layton, Cayne, Macleod, Catriona, Roberts, Shane, Stringer, Damien and McDonald-Madden, Eve (2022). Expert perceptions of seaweed farming for sustainable development. Journal of Cleaner Production, 368 133052, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.133052

  • Mapping the spatial distribution of global mariculture production

    Clawson, Gage, Kuempel, Caitlin D., Frazier, Melanie, Blasco, Gordon, Cottrell, Richard S., Froehlich, Halley E., Metian, Marc, Nash, Kirsty L., Többen, Johannes, Verstaen, Juliette, Williams, David R. and Halpern, Benjamin S. (2022). Mapping the spatial distribution of global mariculture production. Aquaculture, 553 738066, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2022.738066

  • Historical food consumption declines and the role of alternative foods

    Ferraro, Danielle M., Cottrell, Richard S., Blasco, Gordon D., Froehlich, Halley E. and Halpern, Benjamin S. (2022). Historical food consumption declines and the role of alternative foods. Environmental Research Letters, 17 (1) 014020, 1-12. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac4072

  • Feeding fish with fumes

    Cottrell, Richard S. (2021). Feeding fish with fumes. Nature Sustainability, 5 (1), 9-10. doi: 10.1038/s41893-021-00798-0

  • The overlooked importance of food disadoption for the environmental sustainability of new foods

    Cottrell, Richard S., Maier, Jason, Ferraro, Danielle M., Blasco, Gordon D., Geyer, Roland, Froehlich, Halley E. and Halpern, Benjamin S. (2021). The overlooked importance of food disadoption for the environmental sustainability of new foods. Environmental Research Letters, 16 (10), 1-11. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac269c

  • Governing the land-sea interface to achieve sustainable coastal development

    Singh, Gerald G., Cottrell, Richard S., Eddy, Tyler D. and Cisneros-Montemayor, Andrés Miguel (2021). Governing the land-sea interface to achieve sustainable coastal development. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8 709947. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.709947

  • The search for blue transitions in aquaculture-dominant countries

    Cottrell, Richard S., Ferraro, Danielle M., Blasco, Gordon D., Halpern, Benjamin S. and Froehlich, Halley E. (2021). The search for blue transitions in aquaculture-dominant countries. Fish and Fisheries, 22 (5), 1006-1023. doi: 10.1111/faf.12566

  • Emerging COVID-19 impacts, responses, and lessons for building resilience in the seafood system

    Love, David C., Allison, Edward H., Asche, Frank, Belton, Ben, Cottrell, Richard S., Froehlich, Halley E., Gephart, Jessica A., Hicks, Christina C., Little, David C., Nussbaumer, Elizabeth M., da Silva, Patricia Pinto, Poulain, Florence, Rubio, Angel, Stoll, Joshua S., Tlusty, Michael F., Thorne-Lyman, Andrew L., Troell, Max and Zhang, Wenbo (2021). Emerging COVID-19 impacts, responses, and lessons for building resilience in the seafood system. Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment, 28 100494, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100494

  • The long and narrow path for novel cell-based seafood to reduce fishing pressure for marine ecosystem recovery

    Halpern, Benjamin S., Maier, Jason, Lahr, Heather J., Blasco, Gordon, Costello, Christopher, Cottrell, Richard S., Deschenes, Olivier, Ferraro, Danielle M., Froehlich, Halley E., McDonald, Gavin G., Millage, Katherine D. and Weir, Michael J. (2021). The long and narrow path for novel cell-based seafood to reduce fishing pressure for marine ecosystem recovery. Fish and Fisheries, 22 (3), 652-664. doi: 10.1111/faf.12541

  • Time to rethink trophic levels in aquaculture policy

    Cottrell, Richard S., Metian, Marc, Froehlich, Halley E., Blanchard, Julia L., Sand Jacobsen, Nis, McIntyre, Peter B., Nash, Kirsty L., Williams, David R., Bouwman, Lex, Gephart, Jessica A., Kuempel, Caitlin D., Moran, Daniel D., Troell, Max and Halpern, Benjamin S. (2021). Time to rethink trophic levels in aquaculture policy. Reviews in Aquaculture, 13 (3), 1583-1593. doi: 10.1111/raq.12535

  • Securing a sustainable future for US seafood in the wake of a global crisis

    Froehlich, Halley E., Gentry, Rebecca R., Lester, Sarah E., Cottrell, Richard S., Fay, Gavin, Branch, Trevor A., Gephart, Jessica A., White, Easton R. and Baum, Julia K. (2021). Securing a sustainable future for US seafood in the wake of a global crisis. Marine Policy, 124 104328, 1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104328

  • Early effects of COVID-19 on US fisheries and seafood consumption

    White, Easton R., Froehlich, Halley E., Gephart, Jessica A., Cottrell, Richard S., Branch, Trevor A., Bejarano, Rahul Agrawal and Baum, Julia K. (2021). Early effects of COVID-19 on US fisheries and seafood consumption. Fish and Fisheries, 22 (1), 232-239. doi: 10.1111/faf.12525

  • Substantial gaps in the current fisheries data landscape

    Blasco, Gordon D., Ferraro, Danielle M., Cottrell, Richard S., Halpernu, Benjamin S. and Froehlich, Halley E. (2020). Substantial gaps in the current fisheries data landscape. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 1-12. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.612831

  • Erratum: Opinion: Putting all foods on the same table: Achieving sustainable food systems requires full accounting (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America(2019)116(18152–18156)Doi: 10.1073/pnas.1913308116)

    Halpern, Benjamin S., Cottrell, Richard S., Blanchard, Julia L., Bouwman, Lex, Froehlich, Halley E., Gephart, Jessica A., Jacobsen, Nis Sand, Kuempel, Caitlin D., McIntyre, Peter B., Metian, Marc, Moran, Daniel D., Nash, Kirsty L., Többen, Johannes and Williams, David R. (2020). Erratum: Opinion: Putting all foods on the same table: Achieving sustainable food systems requires full accounting (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America(2019)116(18152–18156)Doi: 10.1073/pnas.1913308116). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117 (28). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2011873117

  • Integrating Life Cycle and Impact Assessments to Map Food's Cumulative Environmental Footprint

    Kuempel, Caitlin D., Frazier, Melanie, Nash, Kirsty L., Jacobsen, Nis Sand, Williams, David R., Blanchard, Julia L., Cottrell, Richard S., McIntyre, Peter B., Moran, Daniel, Bouwman, Lex, Froehlich, Halley E., Gephart, Jessica A., Metian, Marc, Többen, Johannes and Halpern, Benjamin S. (2020). Integrating Life Cycle and Impact Assessments to Map Food's Cumulative Environmental Footprint. One Earth, 3 (1), 65-78. doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.06.014

  • Global adoption of novel aquaculture feeds could substantially reduce forage fish demand by 2030

    Cottrell, Richard S., Blanchard, Julia L., Halpern, Benjamin S., Metian, Marc and Froehlich, Halley E. (2020). Global adoption of novel aquaculture feeds could substantially reduce forage fish demand by 2030. Nature Food, 1 (5), 301-308. doi: 10.1038/s43016-020-0078-x

  • Putting all foods on the same table: achieving sustainable food systems requires full accounting

    Halpern, Benjamin S., Cottrell, Richard S., Blanchard, Julia L., Bouwman, Lex, Froehlich, Halley E., Gephart, Jessica A., Sand Jacobsen, Nis, Kuempel, Caitlin D., McIntyre, Peter B., Metian, Marc, Moran, Daniel D., Nash, Kirsty L., Többen, Johannes and Williams, David R. (2019). Putting all foods on the same table: achieving sustainable food systems requires full accounting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (37), 18152-18156. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1913308116

  • Climate impacts on the ocean are making the Sustainable Development Goals a moving target travelling away from us

    Singh, Gerald G., Hilmi, Nathalie, Bernhardt, Joey R., Montemayor, Andres M. Cisneros, Cashion, Madeline, Ota, Yoshitaka, Acar, Sevil, Brown, Jason M., Cottrell, Richard, Djoundourian, Salpie, Gonzalez-Espinosa, Pedro C., Lam, Vicky, Marshall, Nadine, Neumann, Barbara, Pascal, Nicolas, Reygondeau, Gabriel, Rocklov, Joacim, Safa, Alain, Virto, Laura R. and Cheung, William (2019). Climate impacts on the ocean are making the Sustainable Development Goals a moving target travelling away from us. People and Nature, 1 (3), 317-330. doi: 10.1002/pan3.26

  • Food production shocks across land and sea

    Cottrell, Richard S., Nash, Kirsty L., Halpern, Benjamin S., Remenyi, Tomas A., Corney, Stuart P., Fleming, Aysha, Fulton, Elizabeth A., Hornborg, Sara, Johne, Alexandra, Watson, Reg A. and Blanchard, Julia L. (2019). Food production shocks across land and sea. Nature Sustainability, 2 (2), 130-137. doi: 10.1038/s41893-018-0210-1

  • Progress in integrating natural and social science in marine ecosystem-based management research

    Alexander, K. A., Hobday, A. J., Cvitanovic, C., Ogier, E., Nash, K. L., Cottrell, R. S., Fleming, A., Fudge, M., Fulton, E. A., Frusher, S., Kelly, R., MacLeod, C. K., Pecl, G. T., van Putten, I., Vince, J. and Watson, R. A. (2019). Progress in integrating natural and social science in marine ecosystem-based management research. Marine and Freshwater Research, 70 (1), 71-83. doi: 10.1071/MF17248

  • Fostering changes in attitude, knowledge and behavior: demographic variation in environmental education effects

    Braun, Tina, Cottrell, Richard and Dierkes, Paul (2018). Fostering changes in attitude, knowledge and behavior: demographic variation in environmental education effects. Environmental Education Research, 24 (6), 899-920. doi: 10.1080/13504622.2017.1343279

  • Linked sustainability challenges and trade-offs among fisheries, aquaculture and agriculture

    Blanchard, Julia L., Watson, Reg A., Fulton, Elizabeth A., Cottrell, Richard S., Nash, Kirsty L., Bryndum-Buchholz, Andrea, Buechner, Matthias, Carozza, David A., Cheung, William W. L., Elliott, Joshua, Davidson, Lindsay N. K., Dulvy, Nicholas K., Dunne, John P., Eddy, Tyler D., Galbraith, Eric, Lotze, Heike K., Maury, Olivier, Mueller, Christoph, Tittensor, Derek P. and Jennings, Simon (2017). Linked sustainability challenges and trade-offs among fisheries, aquaculture and agriculture. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1 (9), 1240-1249. doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0258-8

  • Considering land–sea interactions and trade-offs for food and biodiversity

    Cottrell, Richard S., Fleming, Aysha, Fulton, Elizabeth A., Nash, Kirsty L., Watson, Reg A. and Blanchard, Julia L. (2017). Considering land–sea interactions and trade-offs for food and biodiversity. Global Change Biology, 24 (2), 580-596. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13873

  • Kathleen Schwerdtner Máñez and Bo Poulsen (eds): Perspectives on oceans past: a handbook of marine environmental history

    Kelly, Rachel, Cottrell, Richard S., Mackay, Mary and Rousseau, Yannick (2016). Kathleen Schwerdtner Máñez and Bo Poulsen (eds): Perspectives on oceans past: a handbook of marine environmental history. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 27 (1), 285-286. doi: 10.1007/s11160-016-9462-x

  • The influence of organic material and temperature on the burial tolerance of the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis: considerations for the management of marine aggregate dredging

    Cottrell, Richard S., Black, Kenny D., Hutchison, Zoe L. and Last, Kim S. (2016). The influence of organic material and temperature on the burial tolerance of the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis: considerations for the management of marine aggregate dredging. Plos One, 11 (1) e0147534, 1-20. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147534

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