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May 10, 2023 Edition

A monthly round-up of news and trends important to the AltaSea community.
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July 2023 Edition

A monthly round-up of news and trends important to the AltaSea community.

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Upcoming Events

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July 29, 2023 – 10am to 12:30pm
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Guests Speakers Linda Chilton and Michelle Horeczko will be discussing, What is that happening right off our coast?

Michelle Horeczko at California Department of Fish and Wildlife Marine Region presents Sustainable Fisheries and Marine Resources along the California coast.

Our speakers and local ocean-focused organizations will be available for guests to speak with.
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Oct 14, 2023 – Save The Date
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AltaSea’s Blue Hour connects science, culture and community by cultivating immersive experiences through multi-disciplinary arts. From global to local, creators and innovators chronicle the vision of a Blue Economy, telling the stories of the ocean, the humanity of those devoted to its preservation and future. Blue Hour supports AltaSea’s Project Blue, which offers students a voice in supporting LA as the center of the Blue Economy through education, career opportunity, access to access to arts and culture.

This year’s Blue Hour Guest Curator is American interdisciplinary artist, Kim Abeles whose artworks explore the environment, biography, geography and feminism. Kim has curated an exhibition featuring installations, ceramics, video, glass, photography, sound, and painting by over 20 artists. Below is a sneak peak of 4 artists work this year.

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Cesar and Lois (Lucy HG Solomon and Cesar Baio)

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Title: Degenerative Cultures
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Cynthia Minet

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Danielle Eubank

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Title: Ny Alesund II

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Patsy Cox

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AltaSea Community

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Congresswoman Nanette Barragán Provides $1 Million in Federal Funding for Ocean STEM Labs at AltaSea (Yahoo Finance)

LOS ANGELES, July 07, 2023–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Standing at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Congresswoman Nanette Barragán (CA-44) presented a ceremonial check of $1 million to highlight the federal monies she secured to fund postsecondary, ocean-based research and equipment aimed at finding solutions to climate change.

The funding from Congress’ 2023 Omnibus Budget Agreement will support additional research at the cutting edge, 35-acre campus that has become a home for top scientists to conduct important ocean-related research and discover solutions to environmental problems. Through intensive collaboration, students and research scientists will continue to conceptualize, identify, and address the most pressing issues facing the ocean today.
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A single load of laundry can release up to 18 million microfibers. 5 Gyres is co-sponsoring AB 1628 (McKinnor), which would require new washing machines in California to contain a microfiber filtration system by 2029. Our own research shows that filters are a proven solution that can dramatically reduce the amount of microfibers entering the environment.
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Two-thirds of our planet is covered by oceans, so when we look for solutions to climate change and sustainability challenges, why would we only look on land? The nonprofit AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles has developed a model to unleash the power of the ocean to meet these challenges by harnessing the “blue” economy. This includes aquaculture on land and at sea; clean renewable energy, such as wave power and pulling carbon pollution out of the ocean, with hydrogen as a byproduct that can power ships and trucks; and underwater robotics that can help us explore and understand our changing ocean to unlock even more innovation.
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AltaSea, Kearny Point launch collaborative effort to promote sustainability, blue and green economy (ROI-NJ.com)

Kearny Point, together with AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles, joined to launch an initiative aimed at promoting sustainability, aquaculture and the blue and green economy. The bicoastal collaboration, which brings together two leading innovation hubs, will leverage the unique capabilities of each organization to drive innovation and growth on both the East and West coasts.

As part of the initiative, AltaSea and Kearny Point will collaborate to take advantage of Kearny Point’s strategic infrastructure located close to the Port of Newark and New York City. One of AltaSea’s greatest advantages is its access to the deep ocean, vast research facilities and marine life support systems.

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Where to Find Advanced Computing at USC (Hint: It’s Everywhere!) (news.usc.edu)

A visual guide to where USC has made its mark on the computing landscape throughout Southern California. USC has made its mark on advanced computing in numerous, impactful ways — from places located in Southern California to areas across the country and around the globe…including AltaSea!!
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Marine Science

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When Salomé Buglass was studying underwater mountains in the Galapagos, the marine scientist came across something she didn’t expect. “I see these tall, green things just swaying from one side to the other,” Salomé recalls. “I thought, is this like some weird black coral that is really flappy?”

She eventually realized it was a forest of kelp thriving in deep, tropical waters. Kelp usually grows in cooler waters, and like other seaweeds, needs light to survive. To add to the mystery, this kelp was growing deeper than usual, farther away from the sun’s rays.

Salomé had a ton of questions. “How is it so deep? What is it doing on top of a seamount? Why haven’t we seen it before?” and eventually “Is this a whole new species?”
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Ocean temperatures are off the charts, and El Niño is only partly to blame (LATimes.com)

In a world of worsening climate extremes, a single red line has caught many people’s attention.

The line, which charts sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic Ocean, went viral over the weekend for its startling display of unprecedented warming — nearly 2 degrees (1.09 Celsius) above the mean dating back to 1982, the earliest year with comparable data.

Ocean temperatures are so anomalously high that Eliot Jacobson, a retired mathematics professor who created the graph using data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, had to “increase the upper bound on the y-axis,” he said.
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Viable Gear Founder Katie Weiler talks about lobster bait bags, kelp seeding lines and more with the Advocate and Aquademia (globalseafood.org)

Katie Weiler made a personal pledge once to rid her personal consumption habits of plastics. She was so devoted to the cause that she developed an Instagram page with tips for others on how to follow suit.

“People would see me at the grocery store, trying to get people to wrap cheese in paper for me or bringing my own containers and stuff like that. And that’s really where I started diving super deep into plastics,” said the founder of Viable Gear, a Maine-based startup aiming to reduce petroleum-based plastics in the ocean by offering fishing and aquaculture equipment made with a polymer derived from seaweed. Weiler joined the Advocate and the Aquademia podcast this week.
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Uganda gains first aquaculture feed mill (Feedstrategy.com)

Ground has been broken on the Uganda’s first feed mill dedicated to feed production for fish farming. For the landlocked East African state, this represents its first facility exclusively for aquaculture feed production.

This week, a ceremony marking the first stage of construction was held in Njeru, reports The Independent of Uganda. After recent feed mill investments in South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana and Ivory Coast, global animal feed company Royal De Heus was demonstrating its belief in the future for the continent of Africa.
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UN agencies head up new $115 million push for cleaner, healthier oceans (news.un.org)

FAO will co-lead the Clean and Healthy Oceans initiative together with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF), in a strategic partnership with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the UN educational, science and cultural agency UNESCO.

“Together, we can turn the tide on pollution for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life,” said FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu.

The source-to-sea initiative will direct up to $115 million in grants to clean up coastal areas and was signed off at the 64th Council Meeting of the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for agreement to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 at crunch shipping talks in London this week and urged decarbonisation efforts to move faster.

China, however, is pushing back on the targets, according to a diplomatic note issued by Beijing.

Shipping, which transports around 90% of world trade and accounts for nearly 3% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions, is facing calls from environmentalists and investors to deliver more concrete action, including a carbon levy.
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Global Aquaculture Market (2023 to 2027) – Featuring Leroy Seafood Group, Cooke Aquaculture & Austevoll Seafood Among Others (Finance.yahoo)

The aquaculture market is forecasted to grow by USD 56.93 bn during 2022-2027, accelerating at a CAGR of 4.43% during the forecast period. The report on the aquaculture market provides a holistic analysis, market size and forecast, trends, growth drivers, and challenges, as well as vendor analysis covering around 25 vendors.

The report offers an up-to-date analysis regarding the current market scenario, the latest trends and drivers, and the overall market environment. The market is driven by rising awareness of aquaculture products, the popularity of polyculture farm methodology, and the increased presence of better aquaculture strains from different farming methods.
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EU Mission ‘Restore our Ocean and Waters’: €106 million for 18 new projects for protection, conservation, depollution and innovation (ec.europa.eu)

The Commission announced today 18 new projects which will receive over €106 million to contribute to the EU Mission ‘Restore our Ocean and Waters’. The projects gather over 370 beneficiaries from 36 countries, including SMEs, research institutions, local authorities, schools and businesses. They will play a key role in achieving climate neutrality and restoring nature by protecting and restoring biodiversity in waters, cutting pollution, supporting a sustainable blue economy and developing the European Digital Twin of the Ocean.
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Australis Aquaculture nets USD 18 million to expand barramundi production in Vietnam (seafoodsource.com)

Australis Aquaculture, a vertically-integrated aquaculture producer of barramundi, has received a USD 15 million (EUR 13 million) investment from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and a USD 3 million (EUR 2.7 million) grant from the Climate Innovation Development Fund (CIDF).

Australis Aquaculture’s ocean-based farm in Vietnam became the world’s first producer to earn recognition under the Aquaculture Stewardship Council’s tropical marine finfish standard, and the company is also Fair Trade-certified. It won the U.S. State Department’s Award for Corporate Excellence in 2021.
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The German American Chamber of Commerce of the Southern U.S., President Matthias Hoffmann, was among those in attendance to discuss developments on the coast. Many professionals gathered for a day of networking and informational sessions from German and United States maritime speakers.

Dr. Jason McKenna, Director of Research, Development, Testing, Evaluation, and Training at USM’s Roger F. Wicker Center for Ocean Enterprise spoke about research partnerships to promote the new blue economy in the Gulf of Mexico along with projects Ocean Enterprise is working on with federal, state, industry, and non-profit agencies.
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New study led by UC Santa Barbara researcher shows environmental change threatens global aquaculture (kclu.org)

It’s a source of beauty, and it’s also a vital source of food. Our oceans supply about 17% of the world’s protein. But, an international study led by a UC Santa Barbara researcher shows that environmental change may be creating an extraordinary threat to global aquaculture.

“We’ve been focusing on so-called blue foods, from freshwater and marine systems, trying to understand whether that food is at-risk in the future,” said Dr. Ben Halpern, who is one the lead authors of the new study. The UC Santa Barbara professor is Director of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
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The Blue Economy, a term that refers to the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, improved livelihoods, and jobs while preserving the health of the ocean ecosystem, is currently experiencing a significant revolution. This transformation is driven the rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, particularly in the area of fisheries management.

Fisheries management, a critical component of the Blue Economy, has traditionally been a complex and challenging task. It involves the monitoring of fish populations, enforcement of fishing regulations, and ensuring the sustainability of marine ecosystems. However, the advent of AI is proving to be a game-changer in this field, offering innovative solutions to these age-old challenges.
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Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is a promising technology that has the potential to revolutionize the way we harness energy from the ocean, paving the way for a sustainable blue economy. The blue economy refers to the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, improved livelihoods, and jobs while preserving the health of the ocean ecosystem. OTEC, which generates electricity by exploiting the temperature difference between warm surface seawater and cold deep seawater, can play a crucial role in the development of ocean-based industries, offering a clean and reliable source of energy.

The concept of OTEC has been around for over a century, but it is only in recent years that advances in technology have made it a viable option for large-scale energy production. The process involves pumping warm surface seawater through a heat exchanger, where it vaporizes a low-boiling-point fluid, such as ammonia. The vapor then drives a turbine, generating electricity. The vapor is subsequently condensed back into a liquid using cold deep seawater, and the cycle repeats. This continuous process allows for the production of electricity 24 hours a day, providing a stable and consistent energy supply.
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