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Scholarships can prove life-changing, not only for the funding they offer but for the opportunity to get real-world experience in your field of study. But how hard is it to win one? Imogen Morison secured a $10,000 AgriFutures Horizon scholarship and an internship with Cygnet Bay Pearl Farm through Marine...
Lukina Lukin has already gone where few would fear to tread – taking on her late husband’s tuna farm on the wild shores of Port Lincoln. Now she’s pushing at new boundaries, trialling a seaweed fertiliser project that could reinvent finfish farming for the better. By any measure, Lukina Lukin...
A tide of sargassum seaweed is landing on beaches around the Gulf of Mexico, threatening livelihoods and creating a sulphurous stink. But does ‘the golden tide’ have a silver lining? “The Stinky Seaweed Blob Approaching Florida Is Absolutely Humongous” This April 4 headline from tech-news website Gizmodo is a ripper,...
In 2015, Jo Lane bought a seaweed ‘cottage industry’ on a whim. Now she’s charting a course to establish Australia’s first commercial kelp farm – but it’s not all plain sailing. If only life were this simple… In January 1970, Women’s Weekly magazine ran a story on ‘The Kelp Lady’,...
Karl Lawton is on the point of a breakthrough in the leading-edge science of microalgae bioreactors. Not bad for a bloke who only completed Year 12… “If I’m asked at a dinner party what I do, I say I’m designing and building a biofilm-based enclosed bioreactor. And that’s when the...
James Brown, the Managing Director of Cygnet Bay Pearl Farms, grew up on country among the Bardi Jawi people of Cape Leveque. When he was a boy, he was always taught that staying tight with the mob could see you through dangerous waters. Forty years later, he’s initiating aquaculture research...
