Cost Reductions in Offshore Seaweed: What Matters and What Doesn‘t

About the speaker: 

Nate Baker is an ocean engineer with Kelson Marine. During his time with Kelson, Nate has analyzed designs for aquaculture projects across the globe as a project engineer, aided in the installation of an offshore seaweed farm, and has deployed and recovered instrumentation used to measure and monitor seaweed farm structures.

Organisation:

Born on New England's working waterfront and leveraging years of ARPA-e funded research and development, Kelson Marine uses rigorous metocean and risk analysis and field-validated, model-based engineering tools to deliver cutting-edge marine systems at the speed of innovation.

By combining advanced engineering knowledge and technology with firsthand experience on the sea, Kelson delivers safe and reliable systems for aquaculture and marine renewable energy.

Presentation:

Kelson Marine has developed a novel validated tool for comprehensively evaluating the realistic costs of farming macroalgae in ocean environments. Structural requirements, operational costs, and macroalgae growth are calculated simultaneously, resolving meaningful feedbacks and revealing important design tradeoffs.