Adding Floating Kelps to Enhance Farm Yield of Kelp Mariculture
This project investigates how integrating floating kelp species with non-floating species might impact yield per area of mariculture farms.
Principal Investigator / Project Partners:
- Mike Stekoll, University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- GreenWave
- Kodiak Kelp Company
- Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation
Project Term: 2022 – 2023 (still ongoing)
Funding: $170,000, US Department of Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-e)