350 Humboldt: Bull Kelp Research in Humboldt From Ocean Warming to Farming
Start: 2023-03-06 19:00:00 UTC Pacific Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-08:00)
This is a virtual event
Cal Poly Humboldt professor, Rafael Cuevas Uribe, and his students, Marzia Fattori and Kalani Ortiz will discuss their bull kelp research on the 350 Humboldt Speakers Series. In 2019 Cal Poly Humboldt established the first commercial licensed seaweed farm in open waters in California. They started growing Pacific dulse, a type of red seaweed. Now they are culturing bull kelp. They will describe the farming process and their research on the lethal temperature that bull kelp could resist as well as other climate implications.