THE MANZANAR PROJECT - TOWARDS A SOLUTION TO POVERTY, HUNGER, ENVIRONMENTAL-POLLUTION, AND GLOBAL WARMING THROUGH SEA-WATER AQUACULTURE ANDSILVICULTURE IN DESERTS

Dr. Gordon Sate is a former Editor-in-Chief of In Vitro Cellular and D evelopmental Biology, President of the Tissue Culture Association (now Society for In Vitro Biology), and Director of the W. Alton Jones Cel l Science Center (now Adirondack Biomedical Center). He began pilot ex periments on the Manzanar Project at test sites in the Salton Sea whil e a Professor of Biology at the University of California, San Diego an d continued the project in the laboratory at the Cell Center in Lake P lacid, NY and at Eritrean test sites during their war of independence. Since 1994, he spends up to 10 mo. per yr in Eritrea where he directs the Manzanar Project and trains young Eritrean scientists in the fiel d in the area of what he refers to as ''low-tech biotech.'' The name o f the Manzanar Project was inspired by the camp in California where Dr . Sate and his family were interned during World War II.