{"id":19,"date":"2018-01-31T16:14:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T20:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/template-blue-prepop\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2020-11-05T21:52:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T01:52:26","slug":"project-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/hauke\/projects\/project-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics of open ocean seaweed farming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>Economics of open ocean seaweed farming for bio-fuel production<\/h1>\n<p>This is a set of projects funded by the US Department of Energy&#8217;s Advanced Research Projects Agency (<a href=\"https:\/\/arpa-e.energy.gov\/?q=arpa-e-site-page\/about\">ARPA-E<\/a>) under its Macroalgae Research Inspiring Novel Energy Resources (<a href=\"https:\/\/arpa-e.energy.gov\/?q=arpa-e-programs\/mariner\">MARINER<\/a>) Program to develop technology for and determine the economic feasibility of large-scale open ocean seaweed farming to generate feedstocks for bio-fuel production from kelp (New England, Alaska) and from tropical seaweeds (Puerto Rico).<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/hauke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2018\/03\/kelp-1-300x255.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" \/>\n<p>Specific projects in which I&#8217;m participating include:<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arpa-e.energy.gov\/?q=slick-sheet-project\/scalable-coastal-and-offshore-macroalgal-farming\">Development of Scalable Coastal and Offshore Macroalgal Farming<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arpa-e.energy.gov\/?q=slick-sheet-project\/techniques-tropical-seaweed-cultivation\">Development of Techniques for Tropical Seaweed Cultivation<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arpa-e.energy.gov\/?q=slick-sheet-project\/seaweed-hatchery-and-selective-breeding-technologies\">Integrated Seaweed Hatchery and Selective Breeding Technologies for Scalable Offshore Seaweed Farming<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arpa-e.energy.gov\/?q=slick-sheet-project\/autonomous-tow-vessels\">Autonomous Tow Vessels for Offshore Macroalgae Farming<\/a>\n\t<h3>Funding Agencies<\/h3>\n<p>The US Department of Energy is funding this research through its ARPA-E MARINER Program.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/hauke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-16-at-5.03.57-PM-300x143.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" \/><\/p>\n\t<h3>Partners\/Collaborators<\/h3>\n<p>Among others:<\/p>\n<p>Loretta Roberson (Marine Biological Laboratory)<\/p>\n<p>Michael Stekoll (University of Alaska)<\/p>\n<p>Scott Lindell (WHOI)<\/p>\n<p>Cliff Goudey (C.A. Goudey and Associates)<\/p>\n<p>Charles Yarish (University of Connecticut).<\/p>\n\t<h3>Related Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/seaweed-farming-and-its-surprising-benefits\/\">CBS News on seaweed farming (April 2018)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t<h3>Research Papers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#\">A link<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#\">Another link<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#\">A\u00a0PDF file attachment<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economics of open ocean seaweed farming for bio-fuel production This is a set of projects funded by the US Department of Energy&#8217;s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) under its Macroalgae Research Inspiring Novel Energy Resources (MARINER) Program to develop technology for and determine the economic feasibility of large-scale open ocean seaweed farming to generate feedstocks&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/hauke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/hauke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/hauke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/hauke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/hauke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/hauke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/hauke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/241"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/hauke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/staff\/hauke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}