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Seaweed Farms: Dynamic Blue Carbon Systems
Elaina Hancock, UConn Today Fisheries & Aquaculture
eaweeds are versatile algae. They are sources of food, medicine, and many other products, and they have the added benefit of being extremely efficient at removing CO2 from the atmosphere as they grow.
However, seaweed aquaculture’s potential for sequestering carbon is overshadowed by the assumption that the biomass will be easily converted back into CO2, says UConn Department of Earth Sciences Assistant Professor Mojtaba Fakhraee. Fakhraee and co-author Noah Planavsky of Yale University argue this is not the case, and we need to reconsider the carbon removal potential of these dynamic systems. Their research is published in Nature Communications Sustainability.
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