{"id":6727,"date":"2017-09-28T12:18:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T12:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=6727"},"modified":"2017-09-28T12:18:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T12:18:59","slug":"newburyport-scientists-drone-aimed-at-helping-seaweed-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/newburyport-scientists-drone-aimed-at-helping-seaweed-farmers.html","title":{"rendered":"Newburyport scientist&#8217;s drone aimed at helping seaweed farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple of years, drones have been utilized more and more, not only for taking stunning bird&#8217;s eye view photographs, but to boost productivity across many industries. Now, one Newburyport resident is preparing to build an aquatic drone that could make a major impact in the world of seaweed farming.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5634 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/edible-seaweed-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/edible-seaweed-2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/edible-seaweed-2-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clifford &#8220;Cliff&#8221; Goudey, head of C.A Goudey and Associates, which he operates from his home on Marlborough Street, has received a grant of $406,549 from the U.S. Department of Energy through the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, to design and construct an autonomous &#8220;drone tug&#8221; to aid with large-scale seaweed, or macroalgae, farming systems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salemnews.com\/news\/business\/newburyport-scientist-s-drone-aimed-at-helping-seaweed-farmers\/article_2a4e6153-6bdd-5f69-9df2-b407d4b5fcb4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple of years, drones have been utilized more and more, not only for taking stunning bird&#8217;s eye view photographs, but to boost productivity across many industries. Now, one Newburyport resident is preparing to build an aquatic drone that could make a major impact in the world of seaweed farming. Clifford &#8220;Cliff&#8221; Goudey, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,59],"tags":[279,568],"class_list":["post-6727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-cultivation","category-seaweed","tag-algae-cultivation-2","tag-seaweed-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6728,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions\/6728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}