So you want an MBCRC-sponsored scholarship?
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 [...]
Shiraz vines turbocharged by bluefin tuna? Only in South Australia…
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 [...]
Sargassum: the monster in our midst?
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? [...]
Kelp: a golden dawn?
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 [...]
From little things…
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 [...]
Stronger together
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 [...]
White truffles, saffron, beluga caviar… fucoidan?
Tasmanian-based Marinova is the world’s only organic-certified producer of high purity fucoidan, a health-giving natural extract that sells for an eye-opening A$12,000 a kilo. Perhaps even more astonishing, the product [...]
Phettucine: the seaweed-fortified pasta that really makes you think…
Thanks to a 10% supplement of Australian seaweed, this fettucine delivers a delicious green pasta to your plate and 71% of your daily iodine requirements – which happens to be [...]