Launched!
Climate Foundation Launches Seaweed Array Prototype
December 2022 - The Climate Foundation unveiled an important milestone in its ocean restoration efforts - a 100 square meter seaweed array designed to support kelp growth in warming waters. While modest in size, this initial array serves as a prototype for much larger installations planned for the coming years that will lower carbon dioxide levels, create marine habitat, and provide jobs.
The tropical and sub tropical waters have warmed dramatically, threatening native seaweed forests that provide food and shelter for a diversity of marine life. The Climate Foundation's modular seaweed arrays offer refuge for marine life, countering the ecosystem damage from rising temperatures. The arrays float below the ocean surface and can expand to cover extensive areas as needed.
While the 100 square meter array is a pilot project, the Climate Foundation team is already at work designing arrays measured in hectors for deployment. The goal is to give seaweed a chance at surviving, create food, jobs and habitat while capturing carbon dioxide from seaweed, just as forests capture carbon on land.
Beyond the climate and commercial benefits, investment in seaweed array technology creates jobs in construction, transport, monitoring and maintenance of these floating kelp shelters. The Climate Foundation anticipates scaling up to arrays. As the largest marine vegetation on earth, healthy seaweed forests have immense potential for carbon sequestration, ocean biodiversity and blue economy development - now within reach - thanks to the Climate Foundation's innovative modular seaweed arrays launched off the coast. The future of climate-threatened seaweed looks brighter and greener thanks to the technologies piloted with this first 100 meter floating refuge.
That seaweed ring that we have been so enthusiastic about? We just launched it. An entire quarter acre if just seaweed! This larger prototype will pave the way for future coastal communities to help the oceans, have jobs, income and food. In addition it will lower acidification and the seaweed that falls off will sequester CO2 for a long time.
December 2022 - The Climate Foundation unveiled an important milestone in its ocean restoration efforts - a 100 square meter seaweed array designed to support kelp growth in warming waters. While modest in size, this initial array serves as a prototype for much larger installations planned for the coming years that will lower carbon dioxide levels, create marine habitat, and provide jobs.
The tropical and sub tropical waters have warmed dramatically, threatening native seaweed forests that provide food and shelter for a diversity of marine life. The Climate Foundation's modular seaweed arrays offer refuge for marine life, countering the ecosystem damage from rising temperatures. The arrays float below the ocean surface and can expand to cover extensive areas as needed.
While the 100 square meter array is a pilot project, the Climate Foundation team is already at work designing arrays measured in hectors for deployment. The goal is to give seaweed a chance at surviving, create food, jobs and habitat while capturing carbon dioxide from seaweed, just as forests capture carbon on land.
Beyond the climate and commercial benefits, investment in seaweed array technology creates jobs in construction, transport, monitoring and maintenance of these floating kelp shelters. The Climate Foundation anticipates scaling up to arrays. As the largest marine vegetation on earth, healthy seaweed forests have immense potential for carbon sequestration, ocean biodiversity and blue economy development - now within reach - thanks to the Climate Foundation's innovative modular seaweed arrays launched off the coast. The future of climate-threatened seaweed looks brighter and greener thanks to the technologies piloted with this first 100 meter floating refuge.
That seaweed ring that we have been so enthusiastic about? We just launched it. An entire quarter acre if just seaweed! This larger prototype will pave the way for future coastal communities to help the oceans, have jobs, income and food. In addition it will lower acidification and the seaweed that falls off will sequester CO2 for a long time.
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Next month we are looking forward to connecting the seaweed ring and the platform. Stay tuned!
Next month we are looking forward to connecting the seaweed ring and the platform. Stay tuned!