Seaweed farming research gets federal funding boost
Research on improving the growth, harvest and transport of farmed sugar kelp at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is getting a financial boost with a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Leading the research project will be Michael Stekoll, a biochemist with a joint appointment at the UAF College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences and the University of Alaska Southeast.
Stekoll is already at work on a $418,000 National Sea Grant College Program project to develop cost-effective cultivation methods so Alaska producers can grow and harvest commercial quantities of sugar kelp, a brown algae whose scientific name is Saccharina latissima.
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