Sway is a material innovation company scaling compostable solutions for plastic made with seaweed. Their products match the performance of conventional plastics and plug into existing infrastructure - but unlike conventional plastics, Sway’s materials are made from regenerative seaweed and can be composted after use. Alyssa Pace, Sway’s Head of Marketing and Comms, is here to tell us all about it.  

You can find Sway at swaythefuture.com on or socials @swaythefuture, and Alyssa on LinkedIn. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people or jessica-hamilton.com. Donate to support the making of this show at buymeacoffee.com/seaweedpeople. 

Links to other stuff in this ep:

Leah Thomas (Greengirl Leah - Intersectional environmentalism)

Four wings of movement collaboration (the butterfly) - Christine Tyler Hill

Leah Penniman - Soul Fire Farm

Creating a New Sargassum Value Chain in Puerto Rico | Newlab

Regenerative organic certification

SeaTrees

Native Conservancy

Sway - Impact & guiding principles 

Macro Oceans 

Sway x Umaro Foods - extracting proteins from seaweed and turning them to foods

Seaweed Stories film (Rewild/Lonely Whale)

HOPE! documentary (Javier Peña)

This episode was recorded and produced on Gadigal & Bidjigal Country. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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Sea the Weed is a collaboration of organisations reforesting 70 hectares of once destroyed Phyllospora Comosa ('Crayweed') along Sydney’s coastline. Throughout 2025, friends Arthur Little and Brenden Newton from AIME have been running a monthly program of sunrise, ceremony and seaweed, drawing human attention back to nature and ‘looking sideways’. We recorded this one at Malabar beach, after a beautiful swim with the reforested crayweed. 

Find dates and more info on the AIME website here. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. Donate to support the making of this show at buymeacoffee.com/seaweedpeople. Also, listen to my new project, SOIL: Rewilding the Underground made with Freya Mulvey here. 

Links to other stuff in this ep: 

AIME - mentoring & the Imagi-Nation hub

Operation Crayweed (also listen to episode 2 with Adriana Verges)

Abyss Scuba Diving

Making a Hoodie Podcast with Sea the Weed 

The Grey Space podcast with Brenden Newtown

AIME’s Imagine film

The seaweed hoodie (+ the Regenerators website)

PYRATEX innovative textiles Seaweed fabric

Become a shareholder of the ocean (deck)

This episode was recorded and produced on Gadigal & Bidjigal Country. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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Along with the team and communities behind Love Rimurimu, Zoe Studd is doing all of these things. Zoe is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Mountains to Sea Wellington Trust, where she manages both marine and freshwater education programs and citizen science programs, working with schools and communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. We talk about starting kelp restoration projects in schools, regenerating coastlines with science and cultural knowledge, and running a kickass seaweed festival.

Follow the Love Rimurimu project here and on their socials. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. Donate to support the making of this show at buymeacoffee.com/seaweedpeople.

Links to other stuff in this ep: 

Seaweeds of Wellington (video ID)

Mountains to Sea Wellington

Experiencing Marine Reserves community program

New Zealand approves first special permit to remove kina barrens

Project Baseline Wellington

Kelp Forest Alliance website (or listen to Episode 11 with Aaron Eger)

Green Gravel Group

Love Rimurimu’s Seaweed Restoration Toolkit

Seaweed Fest 2025

Hot tubs, seaweed soaks & saunas in Ireland

This episode was recorded and produced on Gadigal Country. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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Blue Frontier is a US-based organisation that’s been building solution-oriented citizen engagement for 20 years, to protect oceans, coasts and the human and wild communities that depend on them. We’re joined by Blue Frontier’s David Helvarg and Natasha Benjamin to talk about people-powered conservation, the seaweed rebellion and their new film Sequoias of the Sea, which documents a community of fishermen, tribes and scientists working to restore a kelp habitat devastated by a warming climate.

Find out more about Blue Frontier here and follow the film Sequoias of the Sea here. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. Donate to support the making of this show at buymeacoffee.com/seaweedpeople.

Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep: 

Sequoias of the Sea film (US)

Blue Frontier - website

Rising Tide - Blue Frontier’s podcast

Jared Huffman (“Kelp Congressman”)

White Rock film by the Great Southern Reef Foundation (Australia)

The Australian Urchin Taskforce  

The Golden Shore: California’s Love Affair with the Sea

Kelp Forest Challenge

The Seaweed Rebellion

This episode was recorded and produced on Gadigal/Wangal Country. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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Kirsty Kross is an eco-feminist Australian artist currently based in Oslo, Norway, whose work is about finding ways of connecting diverse groups with issues around the climate crisis, often by embodying a vibrant coral trout. We talk about deep sea mining, mesopotamian deities, which countries are two-tit countries and a seaside collaborative opera performance 📣🪼

You can find Kirsty at her website or on Instagram @kirstykrosss. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. Donate to support the making of this show at buymeacoffee.com/seaweedpeople.

Deep sea mining links & stories touched on in this ep: 

Greenpeace AU petition to ban deep sea mining ahead of international ISA meeting in July 2025

Pacific Blue petition to ban deep sea mining

Blue Peril short film

New battleground in critical minerals race is on Australia’s doorstep

What We Know About Deep-Sea Mining — and What We Don’t

Analysis of the implications of deep seabed mining for the global biodiversity framework and the sustainable development agenda (WWF report)

Immortal jellyfish!

National Treasure at Woollahra Gallery, Redleaf

The Cult of Atargatis and Transgender Priestesses

Jack Halberstam on Queer Failure, Silly Archives and the Wild

This episode was recorded and produced on Gadigal/Wangal Country. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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Nicole Mertens is a marine ecologist with a passion for sacoglossans, a science communicator and the Nature Stewards Coordinator with the Victorian National Parks Association. Nicole is passionate about using citizen science as a platform for evidence-based conservation, and helping people connect with their local environment. 

You can find Nicole and the VNPA team here and on socials @vicnationalparks. 

You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. Donate to support the making of this show at buymeacoffee.com/seaweedpeople.

Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep: 

Seaslug census Facebook group (Australia)

iNaturalist - sacoglossans of Victoria (good pics)

Nudibranchs - videos + freaky facts

Shaun the Sheep internet famous nudi

Keep your head: the self-decapitating sea slugs that regrow their bodies – hearts and all

Solar-powered sea slugs 

VNPA ReefWatch citizen science programs

This episode was recorded and produced on Gadigal/Wangal and Larrakia Country. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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Freya Mulvey is a senior lawyer and environmental enthusiast who is passionate about implementing better soil and landscape regulation into policy and legal frameworks. She is a 2023 Churchill Fellow and a 2017 recipient of the Australian Lawyers Alliance Civil Justice Award for her work on the Montara Oil Spill. She is also a published author of the book Ground Breaking: Soil Security and Climate Change. We're also making a podcast together!

You can find Freya on LinkedIn, subscribe to SOIL on Spotify here, find us on socials @soilpodcast or read more at thesoilpodcast.com. Donate to our Pozible campaign by March 16th or via our website afterwards. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people.

Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep: 

Indonesian seaweed farmers win class action over one of Australia's largest oil spills

Interview with Greg Phelps

Phil Mulvey, Environmental Earth Sciences International

Ground Breaking: Soil Security & Climate Change (the book Freya co-authored with Phil Mulvey)

SOIL - Pozible campaign

Soil on Spotify

Seaweed People is completely independent. You can support the making of this show at buymeacoffee.com/seaweedpeople.

This episode was recorded and produced on Gadigal/Wangal and Larrakia Country. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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Adam Brancher is a Principle Marine Surveyor and the Founder of Southern Ocean Carbon (now known as Next Wave Seaweed), which aims to mitigate the impacts of climate change through responsible seaweed mariculture and bio-mitigation around aquaculture farms. We touch on a few of the exciting projects his team is working on across the world in this episode, such as growing seaweed for bioplastics, offshore mariculture, IMTA and seaweed for food security. 

Since this ep was recorded SOC has rebranded to Next Wave Seaweed - you can find them here or on socials @nextwaveseaweed. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. Donate to support the making of this show at buymeacoffee.com/seaweedpeople.

Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep: 

The Problem with Carbon Credits and Offsets Explained

Forensic carbon accounting with Catriona Herd (SP episode)

Opportunities and constraints for biochar technology in Australian agriculture: looking beyond carbon sequestration (research)

Kelpy (NSW-based seaweed bioplastic)

Nopla - bioplastics

Blue Economy CRC

Hydrodynamic energy attenuation by seaweed aquaculture

Developing Production Systems for Offshore Kelp Mariculture

A new paper on seaweed explores its potential in nourishing low- and middle-income nations

Some info on IMTA (integrated multi-trophic aquaculture)

Nutrition, Nitrogen & circular Systems with Pia Winberg (SP episode)

This episode was recorded and produced on Gadigal/Wangal and Palawa Pakana lands. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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Robert Cooley is a Senior Ranger and leader of the Gamay Rangers, an Indigenous ranger team that cares for country on Gamay, or Botany Bay in Sydney, and on conservation land owned by the La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council. Since 2019, the Gamay Rangers team have been regenerating coastal habitats, protecting marine mammals, providing food for vulnerable people during Covid lockdowns and connecting local communities to Sea Country in Australia’s biggest city. 

You can find Robert and the Gamay Ranger team on socials @gamayrangers. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. Donate to support the making of this show at buymeacoffee.com/seaweedpeople.

Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep: 

La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council

Operation Crayweed - restoring Sydney’s underwater forests 

Operation Posidonia - healing old wounds 

The Sydney Seahorse Project (SIMS/Gamay Rangers)

SIMS Aboriginal Youth Ranger Program 

Wild Sydney Harbour - citizen science project 

Country Needs People - what are Indigenous Rangers?

Indigenous Rangers (NIAA/gov)

This episode was recorded and produced on Gadigal/Wangal and Bidjigal lands. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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Cam Hines and Brent “Bert” Cross are two of the three founders of Southern Seagreens. From backgrounds in craft beer and naval diving, they joined forces with Rob (the third, a scientist) to learn how to farm native kelp at their sea farm down in Flinders, Victoria. They also hunt wakame, one of the world’s most invasive (yet delicious) species, and turning it all into tasty treats. 

You can find Cam & Bert via the Southern Greens website or socials. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. Donate to support the making of this show at buymeacoffee.com/seaweedpeople.

Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep: 

AU government Invasive pests: Wakame control plan 

Removing wakame (Parks Victoria)

Mountain Goat Beer

Aegir Divers (Bert’s company)

GreenWave - global network of regenerative ocean farmers

Reviving Tassie’s giant kelp with Mick Baron (SP companion episode about Macrocystis)

Seaweed babies & kelp farms with Jo Lane (another companion ep about Ecklonia radiata)

An Overview of the Alternative Use of Seaweeds to Produce Safe and Sustainable Bio-Packaging (Lomartire et al., 2022 - research)

This episode was recorded and produced on Gadigal/Wangal land and Boon Wurrung/Bunurong land. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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Aaron Eger is the Founder and Program Director of the Kelp Forest Alliance, a global community of kelp restoration and conservation practices and research that evolved from his PhD. He was the lead author of the first ever kelp restoration guidebook and facilitated the creation of the Kelp Forest Challenge, a global mission to protect and restore 4 million hectares of kelp forests by 2040.

You can find Aaron at UNSW or via the Kelp Forest Alliance website. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. Support the show at buymeacoffee.com/seaweedpeople.

Links to stuff we talk about: 

Sunshine Coast Canada - Kelp ecosystem restoration 

Sea Otters Have Helped Bolster California’s Kelp Forest

Global Rewilding Alliance

Global kelp forest restoration: past lessons, present status, and future directions (Eger et al., 2022)

The Race to Help Kelp (Google resource. Great pics)

Kelp Restoration Guidebook

Kelp Forest Challenge 

The Kelp Forest Challenge: A collaborative global movement to protect and restore 4 million hectares of kelp forests (open access)

Korean Kelp Restoration Manual

Gardening Marine Forests (film) - South Korean kelp restoration

Tips for finding & contacting your local MP (courtesy of the Australian Marine Conservation Society)

This episode was recorded and produced on Gadigal/Wangal land. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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Boho Interactive is a collective of Australian artists, performers and game designers who create interactive games, performances and workshops in collaboration with research scientists. Their games have been played or experienced in theatres, festivals, museums, conferences and boardrooms. One such game is the urchin-lobster battle ‘Best Kelp Secrets’, commissioned by Australia’s national science agency, the CSIRO.

Joining me today and playing the part of shiny lobster, is one part of this big creative team, Nathan Harrison. 

You can find Boho Interactive through their website. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. Support the show at buymeacoffee.com/seaweedpeople.

Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep: 

Best Festival Ever - how to manage a disaster - Boho Interactive game

Invasive sea urchin endangers giant kelp forests - Invasive Species Council

CSIRO’s work protecting giant kelp 

Gamifying Government - Best Kelp Secrets commissioned by CSIRO

Playful Activism, game mechanics and participation - Coney (UK)

Evaluating a community of practice for Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing - Lowitja Institute

More on Boho’s work creating games with Indigenous communities 

Get Ready Singleton: Disaster Dash - game created with Singleton Council

This episode was recorded and produced on Gadigal/Wangal and Bidjigal land. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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Jo Lane has a background in marine science and sustainable coastal environments and is the owner of Sea Health Products, which make small-batch kelp products on the South Coast of NSW. She’s currently working on asparagopsis in South Australia as a research Lead with the Australian Sustainable Seaweed Alliance and, as a quite serious “side hustle”, she’s also developing kelp seedstock with a view to get kelp farming and restoration projects happening in Australia.

You can find Jo on LinkedIn. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. 

Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep: 

Ecklonia radiata (Atlas of Living Australia)

The story of Betty, the original “Kelp Lady”

Marine heatwaves and proliferation of sea urchins on Australia’s east coast

Biology and Ecology of the Globally Significant Kelp Ecklonia radiata Ecklonia - covers reproductive cycle (Wernberg et al, 2019)

Churchill Fellowship

GreenWave - global network of regenerative ocean farmers

ASSA Research to optimise propagation and growth of the red seaweed Asparagopsis 

Homeward Bound leadership program for women in STEMM

This episode was recorded and produced between Gadigal/Wangal land and Kaurna land. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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Professor Melanie Bishop is a coastal ecologist who researches changes to temperate environments like coastal erosion, nutrient enrichment, and marine urban sprawl, as well as engineering interventions to create habitat and conserve native biodiversity in degraded seascapes. She co-leads the working group of the World Harbour Project as well as the Living Seawalls Program, which is part of the Project Restore with SIMS. 

You can find Melanie at Macquarie University. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. 

Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep: 

Living Seawalls with Project Restore 

The World Harbour Project

Biodiversity benefits of scaling up marine eco-engineering (research)

Variable effects of substrate colour and microtexture on sessile marine taxa in Australian estuaries (research)

New York’s Billion Oyster Project

Oyster reef restoration around the world (The Nature Conservancy)

Reef Builder - restoring oyster reefs in Australia 

BESE - potato waste products for oyster reef restoration

This episode was recorded and produced on Gadigal/Wangal land in Eora. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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Mick Baron is an avid diver, storyteller, underwater videographer and co-owner of the Eaglehawk Dive Centre. He’s spent 20 years as a scientific observer on fishing vessels in sub-Antarctic to tropical waters, and is an active campaigner for local marine conservation. 

You can find Mick at the Eaglehawk Diver Centre. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. 

Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep: 

The Dead Sea - interactive feature/video by Guardian Australia

Satellite images track Tasmania’s declining kelp forests 

Multi-decadal decline in cover of giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera at the southern limit of its Australian range (research paper)

Sea urchins are wreaking havoc on Tasmania's kelp forests

Restoring Tasmania’s Giant Kelp forests 

Assessing the feasibility of restoring giant kelp forests in Tasmania (Report)

Kelp forest restoration in Australia (review paper)

Giant kelp forests on Tasman Peninsula survive marine heatwave (ABC)

A field guide to the marine invertebrates of South Australia - Karen Gowlett-Holmes (book)

Reviving Giants - short film by the Great Southern Reef Foundation

Kelp Forest Alliance 

KelpTracker 2.0 - record sightings in TAS, VIC & SA

This episode was recorded in teralina in lutruwita, aka Tasmania, and produced on Gadigal/Wangal land in Eora. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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Rhiannon Mitchell is a First Nations woman from the Mununjali people of Beaudesert, who grew up on Gumbaynggirr Country. She’s the founder of Saltwater Sistas, where she teaches young Aboriginal women and girls about the marine environment through mentoring, workshops, ocean conservation and connecting to Country. 

This episode briefly touches on land theft and other themes of colonisation, so please listen with care. 

You can find Rhiannon on socials @saltwater__sistas and read more about her programs and how you can get involved or support her work through her website. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. 

Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep: 

Yaam Gymbaynggirr Jagun - here is Gumbaynggirr Country

Coffs Harbour and District Local Aboriginal Land Council

Donate to Saltwater Sistas

NSW SharkSmart App

Plastic Collective

Lakota Peoples’ Law Project Action Centre - NoDAPL Campaign

The #NoDAPL movement was powerful, factual, and Indigenous-led

Aunty Bea Ballangarry

Common Ground - amplifying First Nations knowledge, cultures and stories

13-YARN - 24/7 crisis support for Indigenous Australians

This episode was made on Gadigal/Wangal land. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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Dr Pia Winberg is a marine ecologist who’s spent the past 25 years working in and researching sustainable marine development. In her words, she’s now in “the business of growing seaweed in a circular economy” and her main focus is developing systems to sustainably cultivate seaweeds in Australia. She runs two companies, Phycohealth and Venus Shell Systems, she has seaweed products on the shelves of supermarkets and she’s currently testing the wound-healing properties of seaweed cells. 

You can find Pia at Phycohealth or Venus Shell Systems and on social media @phycohealth. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. 

Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep: 

People in Europe ate seaweed for thousands of years

Your Evidence Based Guide to Seaweed a Superfood for the Gut

Iodine levels in seaweed and seaweed products in Australia

The Australian prawn farm raising the bar for sustainable aquaculture (not Sri Lanka, but same vibe)

What Is the Nitrogen Cycle and Why Is It Key to Life?

More on how Pia’s seaweed factory works

The circular economy at sea 

Pia’s personal story of seaweed & wound healing 

Seaweed and skin - skincare and wound healin

Harvesting seaweed to make skin from the sea

This episode was recorded and made on Gadigal/Wangal land. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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Lichen Kelp is an artist, performer and curator based in Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung country, in Naarm AKA Melbourne. Through her work she explores melting, subliming, fruiting, flowering, decomposing, bubbling and shapeshifting and she builds communities around marine algae and other ecologies. She also runs the Seaweed Appreciation Society International.

You can find Lichen on socials and read more about her projects on her website or at Seaweed Appreciation Society International (@seaweed_appreciation_society). You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. 

Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep: 

Giant Australian cuttlefish breeding 

Dylan Martorell

Kayak Orchestra recording courtesy of Dylan & Jannah Quill 

Luna Mrozik Gawler - CARRYKIN - an interspecies surrogacy program

Fossils of earliest organisms that had sex are a billion years old

Why does the sea smell like the sea?

A list of ocean-based fears

Lipstick kiss of death

Seaweed: A Global History by Kaori O'Conner

The Portable Seaweed Library

Where is the Australian climate movement’s solidarity with Palestine?

This episode was recorded and made on Gadigal/Wangal land. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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Dr. Scott Bennett is a research scientist at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania. He was born and raised on Tassie’s reefs, and he’s studied kelp forest ecosystems across Australia. He currently leads the scientific advisory panel of the Great Southern Reef Foundation and along with a very impressive team of cinematographers, scientists and local communities, he’s putting the Great Southern Reef on the map and building the science and stories needed for its protection. 

You can find Scott at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (UTAS) or the Great Southern Reef Foundation. You can find and contact me at @seaweed.people. 

Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep: 

GSRF Instagram

The ‘Great Southern Reef’: social, ecological and economic value of Australia’s neglected kelp forests (research paper)

Senate inquiry recommends $55-million investment into managing long-spined sea urchin

Sea Urchin Removal as a Tool for Macroalgal Restoration: A Review on Removing “the Spiny Enemies” (research paper)

GSR Educators Hub

Marine heatwaves are damaging reef ecosystems around Australia

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Professor Adriana Verges has researched temperate ecosystems and coral reefs around the world. She leads a research program that looks into the impacts of climate change on seaweed forests and seagrass meadows and restoration approaches for their conservation. She also leads restoration projects Operation Crayweed and Operation Posidonia. 

You can find Adriana at the University of NSW and Sydney Institute of Marine Science. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. 

Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep: 

Operation Crayweed @thetrueoperationcrayweed

Operation Posidonia @operationposidonia

Western Australian seagrass meadow found to be the world’s largest plant 

AlgaeBase: a global algal database of taxonomic, nomenclatural and distributional information

Michael Guiry (phycologist)

Melinda Coleman - kelp scientist and geneticist 

Asparagopsis compounds reduce methane production in ruminants 

Tropicalisation of temperate reefs: Implications for ecosystem functions and management actions (Adriana’s research)

Restoring WA seaweed after marine heatwaves

Sydney sewage stories 

Recycled wastewater could ease pressures on Sydney’s drinking water 

Project Restore (SIMS)

This episode was recorded and made on Gadigal/Wangal land. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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Dr Catriona Hurd is a seaweed physiologist with nearly 30 years experience across the planet studying how seaweeds grow and how they cope with things like ocean acidification and climate change. Her recent research in forensic carbon accounting assesses the role that seaweeds can play in carbon sequestration. 

You can find Dr Catriona Hurd at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Science (UTAS). Thanks also to Ben Gerstein for lending me the sounds of his kelp trumpet, check out his music and sound work here. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. 

Some links to research and stories for your rabbit holes: 

Seaweed Ecology and Physiology (book)

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

24,000 year old Rotifers may enter the ecosystem once permafrost thaws 

46,000 year old worm found in Siberian permafrost

Regeneration of whole fertile plants from 30,000-y-old fruit tissue buried in Siberian permafrost

Underpinning the Development of Seaweed Biotechnology: Cryopreservation of Brown Algae (Saccharina latissima) Gametophytes

Forensic Carbon Accounting: Assessing the Role of Seaweeds in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Removal (YouTube)

Forensic carbon accounting: Assessing the role of seaweeds for carbon sequestration (research paper)

Supplementing the diets of cows with Asparagopsis

Biofuels from algae: challenges and potential

Follow the Algae Brick Road to Plant-Based Buildings

Climate Recovery Institute 

This episode was recorded and made on Palawa Pakana & Gadigal/Wangal land. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present.

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