The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced $20.2 million in funding for 10 university and industry projects to advance mixed algae development for low-carbon biofuels...
The pioneering Greenwave Aotearoa project has concluded its successful three-year pilot to trial native seaweed cultivation in the Hauraki Gulf and can ultimately answer the question — how do you grow it? The initiative, co-funded by the Ministry for Primary...
The University of Waikato has achieved significant results in the latest funding round from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Endeavour Fund.
The first commercial planting of a native red New Zealand seaweed has been achieved off Tīkapa Moana Hauraki Gulf in the Coromandel. Fertile seedlings of Gigartina (Sarcothalia) atropurpurea have been grown on to twine attached around ropes in a seaweed growing trial...
Multi-species aquaculture farming is being trialled in Tasman Bay in a bid to help the sector expand and adapt to climate change. The Cawthron Institute-led programme off the coast of Motueka aimed to show scallops, oysters and seaweed could grow in open ocean...
