Ocean Forests: Feeding the World with Floating Artificial Reefs

The U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) funded our team to grow seaweed-for-biofuel inexpensively and sustainably. We also found a way to feed the world with shellfish and finfish grown on huge floating flexible reefs without using fishmeal and while simultaneously growing seaweed. I'm Kelly Lucas, Director of the Thad Cochran Marine Aquaculture Center, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, at the University of Southern Mississippi. I will :

• Introduce our team

• Explain our aquacultural revolution

• Describe how nutrient cycling sustains the revolution

• The features of the reef designed for the Department of Energy

• Benefits of the revolution and the

• Economics.