Macroalgae cultivation in drillhole sea on land
Macroalgae cultivation experiments with red algae.
Project contacts
Gissur Örlygsson
Goals:
- To develop a viable and sustainable on-land cultivation system for Schizymenia jonssonii, a valuable edible algae, in controlled conditions in drill-hole seawater.
- To determine the algae's ideal growth conditions by experimenting with temperature, light, currents, nutrients and density.
Verkefnistími: 2020 – 2022
Role in the project
- Equipment development: container size, shape and materials, illumination, aeration, fluid dynamics, and algae distribution in fluid.
Project parners
- Hyndla ehf. (IS)
- Hafrannsóknastofnun - the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute (IS)
Acknowledgements
This project has received funding from Iceland's Technology Development Fund (Tækniþróunarsjóður).
