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| | Blue Institute Labs | Judith Underwood |
Small Business
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Power Generation: Renewable
| Blue Economy expert in scaling emerging technologies in the water and ocean space including seaweed farming, digitization, ecosystem health. |
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| | MIT, SOS Carbon | Andres Bisono Leon |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| Originally from the Dominican Republic, Andres is a ClimateTech entrepreneur working at the intersection of social impact and Climate Action. Andres holds a dual-major in Mechanical Engineering and Finance from Drexel University. Social and environmental impact has always been part of Andres' life endeavors. While in Philadelphia, he supported the community and empowered students and professionals by being part of LeBow BRIDGE Advisory Board and Prospanica Philadelphia Board. He worked at New Hudson Facades, a Related Companies subsidiary, in the development of three skyscrapers with a projects scope worth over USD$170 M at the iconic Hudson Yards in NYC. Since 2018, Andres has been leading SOS Carbon Inc. Sargassum Ocean Sequestration of Carbon (SOS Carbon) is a spun off company from the Mechanical Engineering department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). SOS Carbon is focused on scaling its unique patented technologies to turn sargassum seaweed invasions problem into an economical natural carbon sequestering opportunity and into value-add products. As a member of MIT Sloan School of Management and Legatum Fellow, Andres’ motivation is his capacity to transform society and the environment for a better tomorrow. SOS Carbon is committed to solving one of the Caribbean's most threatening problem, generate employment and value chains to the region, and fight climate change for a global impact. |
| MA |
| | Washington Sea Grant | Meg Chadsey |
Academic
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Bioenergy
| Regenerative seaweed aquaculture; alternative uses for 'nuisance seaweed' collected from aquaculture gear; seaweed-based carbon capture/sequestration strategies; seaweed aquaculture permitting and regulation; science translation; public outreach |
Website: wsg.uw.edu
Email: mchadsey@uw.edu
Phone: 2066161538
Address: 3716 Brooklyn Ave. NE, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
| WA |
| | Columbia University | Ah-Hyung Alissa Park |
Academic
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Bioenergy
| My group has developed an alkaline thermal treatment technology that can directly convert wet and salty biomass (seaweeds, food wastes etc) to high purity hydrogen while sequestering carbon. Our technology can also concentrate critical elements in solid streams that can effectively extracted and purified further. |
| NY |
| | Cornell University | Buz Barstow |
Academic
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Bioenergy
| My lab works on systems and synthetic biology for sustainable energy. We look for problems in sustainable energy, characterize the genetics of microbes that have some of the pieces of the solution, and then figure out ways to turbocharge this capability with synthetic biology. Our biggest breakthroughs are in bioleaching for rare earth element bio-mining, biosorption for rare earth separation, and electromicrobial production for synthesis of complex molecules from CO2 and renewable electricity. |
| NY |
| | Oregon State University | Gregory Rorrer |
Academic
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Bioenergy
| Background and Capabilities of PI. Dr. Gregory Rorrer is professor of chemical engineering at Oregon State University (OSU). The Rorrer Lab has expertise in controlling the cultivation and metabolism of marine macroalgae (seaweeds) and microaglae (diatoms) in engineered systems. Specific areas relevant to this ARPA-e RFI include 1) development of clonal cell and tissue cultures of marine macroalgae, particularly red seaweeds; 2) controlled cultivation of clonal macroalgae in photobioreactors and raceway flow systems; 3) elicitation of secondary metabolism in macroalgal tissue culture for bioactive compounds and bioremediation of xenobiotic compounds; 4) analysis of dynamic CO2 and nutrient uptake by macroalgae; 5) modeling and analysis of engineered macroalgal cultivation systems.
Current projects relevant to ARPA-e RFI. 1) Dynamic analysis of carbon flux by marine macroalgae, focusing on dissolved inorganic uptake (DIC) and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) release by clonal red seaweeds under controlled hydrodynamic environments, with application to ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (Ocean CDR); 2) Controlled protein production by red macroalgae in land-based cultivation systems; 3) Uptake and bioaccumulation of metal ions by red macroalgae under controlled hydrodynamic conditions.
Experimental and Institutional Capabilities. Rorrer Lab: dedicated facilities for development and maintenance of axenic microalgal and macroalgal cultures; climate controlled cold room; instrumented photobioreactors; instrumented raceway cultivation systems designed for seaweed cultivation, equipped with online CO2 uptake measurement; chemical analysis (GC, HPLC, UV-VIS, micro-Raman); photosynthesis analysis. OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center (HMSC): PI has access to the Newport Aquaculture Laboratory, equipped with filtered seawater system for continuous-flow cultivation systems. OSU College of Oceanography: collaborators and equipment with specialized expertise in trace metal analysis of seawater matrices.
Example References:
Kraai, J.A., and Rorrer, G.L. High density cultivation and CO2 uptake by panel arrays of the macrophytic red alga Gracilaria vermiculophylla in a 100 L raceway pond. Algal Research, 65, 102726 (2022). 10.1016/j.algal.2022.102726
Rorrer, G.L., and Cheney, D.P. Bioprocess Engineering of Cell and Tissue Cultures for Marine Seaweeds. Aquacultural Engineering, 32, 11–41 (2004). 10.1016/j.aquaeng.2004.03.007 |
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| | University of California, Berkeley | Norma Cecilia Martinez-Gomez |
Academic
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Bioenergy
| Expert in developing microbial platforms for bioaccumulation and recovery of rare earth elements using high- and low-grade sources. |
| CA |
| | Fearlessfund.org | Alyson Myers |
Non-Profit
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Bioenergy
| Our multi-disciplinary team, including national labs, marine engineers and universities, produces macroalgae for energy and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). We track and harvest at sea. We model the production system, including satellite imagery, and we analyze the material to safely utilize it for climate goals. |
| DC |
| | Kelson Marine Co. | Tobias Dewhurst |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Kelson specializes in the design and analysis of novel ocean structures. As an active partner and developer within the current MARINER project, we have particular expertise designing and optimizing large-scale seaweed farms using field-validated model-based engineering tools.
We also have extensive knowledge of marine materials, metocean analysis, data processing, and simulation of hydro-structural interactions. |
| ME |
| | Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation | Julie Decker |
Non-Profit
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Bioenergy
| AFDF is a current team member in the ARPA-E MARINER project with the goal of improving the efficiency of growing and harvesting macroalgae as a potential biofuel feedstock. AFDF has also helped spearhead a statewide initiative - the Alaska Mariculture Initiative - to accelerate the development of the mariculture industry in Alaska. This initiative led to the Governor-appointed Mariculture Task Force, and subsequently, the creation of the Alaska Mariculture Alliance. A partnership in Alaska - the Alaska Mariculture Cluster - was recently awarded a $49 million grant from EDA to further grow the industry statewide. |
| AK |
| | Macro Oceans | Mohammad Tajparast |
Small Business
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Bioenergy
| Background:
》PhD, PEng, Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
》PhD, Civil Engineering/ Environmental Biotechnology and Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada [Feb 2015].
• Thesis: Storage metabolism during feast-famine cycles of activated sludge wastewater treatment and during a sudden nutrient limitation studied in Rhodococcus jostii RHA1 using a genome-scale metabolic modeling approach.
》MSc, Chemical Engineering, Process Modeling, Simulation & Control, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran [Nov 2001].
• Thesis: Simulation and control of synthesis gas reformer via natural gas reaction.
》BSc, Chemical Engineering, Food Technology, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran [Sep 1999].
• Thesis: Study of production of detergent powder based on alkaline protease enzyme and its plant design.
Interest and capabilities:
I am a self-motivated multidisciplinary Chemical and Biological Scientist/ Engineer with entrepreneurial experience possessing technical and industrial expertise on (bio)resource recovery, (bio)refinery, fermentation processes, along with related PFD and P&ID design, equipment and (bio)process design, modeling, simulation, and control, techno-
economic analysis, and (bio)process optimization using design of experiments methodology and data analysis. I have expertise in chemical and biological systems modeling, optimization, computational biology, bioinformatics, systems biology, genome-scale metabolic modeling and flux balance analysis, 13C-metabolic flux analysis, computer-aided and ML-assisted synthetic biology, ML-assisted classification, genome-wide association studies, and image processing. I have expertise in Comsol Multiphysics, MATLAB, Python, R, MySQL under Windows, Linux, macOS, and cloud computing systems. I am a detailed-oriented individual
who has practical experience and knowledge in chemical and biological wet-lab settings, and knowledge transfer and scale up of upstream pretreatment, extraction, fermentation and downstream processing including lipids, proteins and carbohydrates purification and characterization, as well as molecular biology and analytical chemistry tests, along with related design of experiments, and data reconciliation. I am a flexible team player and patient mentor who is able to quickly learn and tranafer new topics and apply state-of-the-art approaches to accomplish tasks within allocated time and budget in a team and individually without any supervision. |
| CA |
| | Sandia National Laboratories | Ryan W Davis |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Bioenergy
| Sandia National Laboratories houses unique expertise and facilities for evaluation of algae biomass production and processing technologies. The Sandia Algae Testbed Facility, which has been operational at the Sandia-Livermore site since 2015, is a Biosafety Level 1 (BSL1)-rated environmentally simulated algae cultivation scale-up and technologies testing facility, featuring 100L photobioreactors, 100L mini- Open Raceway Ponds, as well as pilot-scale (1000L) Open Raceway Ponds and Attached Algae Flow-Ways. Beyond these institutional capabilities, Sandia has fielded multi-year outdoor pilots for evaluation of Attached Algae Flow-way (aka "Turf Algae") technology for coupling biomass production with ecosystem services. Results from these campaigns indicate that common filamentous periphyton are quite efficient for biologically concentration metals in the biomass, including Rare Earth Elements (REE) and Platinum Group Metals (PGM) that are not taken up by plants, at concentrations that meet or exceed all previous reports for metals accumulation in alga. Sandia is especially interested in partners for development of technologies for efficient isolation of REEs or PGMs from algae biomass, access and interest in deployment of the Attached Algae Flow-way technology at sites with elevated REE or PGM. |
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