{"id":6768,"date":"2017-10-11T09:16:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T09:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=6768"},"modified":"2017-10-11T09:16:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T09:16:15","slug":"seaweed-farming-research-gets-federal-funding-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/seaweed-farming-research-gets-federal-funding-boost.html","title":{"rendered":"Seaweed farming research gets federal funding boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6769 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/saccharina-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/saccharina-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/saccharina-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecordovatimes.com\/2017\/10\/05\/seaweed-farming-research-gets-federal-funding-boost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[615,59,576],"tags":[136,568],"class_list":["post-6768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-2","category-seaweed","category-university-research","tag-algae-research","tag-seaweed-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768","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=6768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6770,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions\/6770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}