A Marshall University graduate has donated $50,000 to the university’s College of Science to support aquatic research. College Dean Charles Somerville says Shelba Pew’s donation will help in the study of algae in larger rivers. Pew graduated from Marshall in 1936. Somerville says the preliminary study could help in the development of energy resources.

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Algae may be the next frontier for biofuels, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is poised to be among the nation’s leaders in this research. Part of the greenhouse complex at UNL’s Beadle Center will be revamped into an algal biofuels research facility this year. Scientists will begin growing algae in […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. The EPA in its Renewable Fuels Standard found that biofuels could have a significant impact on efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions when compared with gasoline or diesel fuel. The finding now classifies algae-based biodiesel and renewable diesel as an “advanced biofuel” under U.S. federal guidelines. The EPA announcement is […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. In a new study, a team of chemists from the University of Toronto in Canada have observed quantum mechanics at work in photosynthesis in marine algae, which suggests algae knew about quantum mechanics nearly two billion years before humans. “Our latest experiments show that normally functioning biological systems have the […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Press Release: Massachusetts-based renewable energy company Bodega Algae and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, have received a six-month, $150,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and test a prototype for growing high concentrations of algae for use as […]

You are at: Oilgae Blog. Press Release: The National Algae Association is pleased to announce the following additions to the agenda for its West Coast Chapter Workshop on February 25th & 26th, 2010 at the Monte Carlo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, hosted by BioCentric Energy: Abdul S. Abdul, Ph.D., PHDPresidentNESA & Associates […]