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• Marine Algae Industrialization Consortium (MAGIC) awarded $5.2M DOE project

            Algal biomass can be converted to advanced biofuels that offer promising alternatives to petroleum-based diesel and jet fuels.  Additionally, algae can be used to make a range of other valuable bioproducts, such as industrial chemicals, bio-based polymers, and proteins. However, barriers related to algae cultivation, harvesting, and conversion to fuels…

  July 9, 2015

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• PICO-LOVE #6 and Fallstreak holes

  PICO-LOVE (Pivers Island Coastal Observatory – Longitudinal Oceanographic Variability Experiment) measures physical, chemical and biological variability along a zonal transect from Beaufort to the Gulf Stream (weather permitting) approximately once monthly. The goal of this study, as part of our ocean acidification experiment work, is to understand zonal variability of environmental variables and their affect…

  January 29, 2015

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• Microbe Group Awarded NSF Ocean Acidification Project

  The Marine Microbe Group (Johnson and Hunt Labs) at the Duke Marine Laboratory has been awarded a NSF project (#1416665) to study the effects of ocean acidification on microbes.  Titled, ‘Collaborative Research: Ocean Acidification: microbes as sentinels of adaptive responses to multiple stressors: contrasting estuarine and open ocean environments,‘  the project is a collaboration with…

  July 1, 2014

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