{"id":4576,"date":"2021-06-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/?p=4576"},"modified":"2021-07-02T13:34:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T18:34:20","slug":"annual-une-seaweed-harvest-fuels-new-and-ongoing-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/annual-une-seaweed-harvest-fuels-new-and-ongoing-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual UNE seaweed harvest fuels new and ongoing research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Annual UNE seaweed harvest fuels new and ongoing research\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/565789853?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Each spring University of New England researchers, faculty, and students hit the ocean and travel out to the University\u2019s kelp farm in Saco Bay to harvest the seaweed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our team is in the middle of a three-year research project funded with a $1.3 million grant from the Department of Energy to develop a tool for modeling open ocean seaweed farms. The goal of the project is to use large-scale seaweed farms in the open ocean to grow seaweed for a variety of uses, including food, fuel and other commercial products. The project is led by Professor David Fredriksson of the U.S. Naval Academy and Professor Barry Costa-Pierce of UNE, in collaboration with Maine Marine Composites and Callentis Consulting Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each spring University of New England researchers, faculty, and students hit the ocean and travel out &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-4576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications-and-awards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4578,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4576\/revisions\/4578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4576"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=4576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}