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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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June 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 7, 2023 – 10:30am to 11:30am
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Join us for the press conference on July 7th at 10:30am where Congressmember Nanette Barragan will present a check celebrating federal funding for AltaSea. AltaSeads Conservancy & California Department of Fish & Wildlife Laboratories will cut the blue ribbon as new AltaSea tenants.

Special Guest Speakers:

Senator Steven Bradford

Assemblymember Mike Gipson
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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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Title: Migrations (Spoonbills)
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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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AltaSea in San Pedro vows to forge the world’s largest ocean tech hub (Daily Breeze)

A $17 million agreement to buoy San Pedro’s AltaSea — vowing to forge the world’s largest ocean tech hub — was feted on Thursday, June 8, at a ceremonial groundbreaking and speeches that drew some 200 people on World Ocean Day.

In the works since the idea hatched in the early 2000s, AltaSea is being created using historic port warehouses that are more than 100 years old at 2451 S. Signal St., across from Warehouse One. The research, education and workforce/innovation center will focus on ocean-based solutions to climate change.
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An audacious new effort to pull carbon dioxide out of the Pacific Ocean as a way to fight climate change is being backed by fossil fuel giants and Big Tech. But the nascent technology, called “direct ocean capture” (DOC), still has a long way to go to prove that it works — and that it won’t cause any new problems.

Caltech researchers founded the startup Captura, which just announced a new project today. Captura was founded in 2021 and won a $1 million award from Elon Musk’s XPrize competition the following year. Now, with funding from the US’s biggest gas utility, Captura’s setting up its biggest pilot project yet at the Port of Los Angeles.
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StartBlue participated in the 5th Edition of Ignite 22 Global Tech Showcase & Summit at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles on May 4. Our partners AltaSea and BraidTheory put on an amazing event, celebrating new partnerships in the blue tech space!

There were about 350 attendees participating in an action-packed program, including panels on investing in the blue economy, in-water and on-land demos, aquaculture lab tours, and interactive displays from more than 60 entrepreneur exhibitors.
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What is the Blue Economy? (Blue Robotics)

Today, we embark on a journey into the realm of the blue economy—a concept that holds the promise of sustainable development and responsible resource utilization within our vast oceans and coastal areas. Let’s navigate through the depths of this topic and shed light on the immense potential it holds for our planet’s future.

The blue economy encompasses all economic activities that are directly or indirectly linked to the oceans, seas, and coasts. Often defined as the “sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, improved livelihoods, and jobs,” it aims to harmonize economic growth with environmental preservation through sustainable practices. This concept recognizes that the oceans, which cover 71% of the Earth’s surface, possess untapped potential for various sectors.

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People ask me why I’m always smiling at environmental events. When I look back at the past 20 years and see how far we’ve come in California, how could I not smile?

A few weeks ago, I plugged in a huge solar roof on a 180,000 square foot warehouse at the port in Los Angeles. It was made possible by California’s million solar roofs initiative. While I was there, I visited the startups inside that warehouse and saw the future: robots, clean cement, sustainable seafood, and companies making power from algae and waves.
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Scientists around the world are racing to develop new methods for combating the rising levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere that are driving climate change and threatening the health of our planet. USC Assignment: Earth logo 2022Ocean carbon capture, which involves using natural ocean processes to trap and store greenhouse gases out at sea, is one promising method. Two L.A. researchers — William Berelson of USC and Jess Adkins of Caltech — are looking to harness this technology to address the problem.

“Behind every potential solution for a more sustainable world lies a story of hard work and collaboration,” USC President Carol L. Folt said. “This promising research to reduce carbon emissions between USC and Caltech will help us all achieve a more sustainable future — starting right here in Southern California.”
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California’s Senate approves wave and tidal renewable energy bill (offshoreenergy.biz)

The California State Senate has unanimously approved a bill that aims to put the state on the path to developing wave and tidal energy as a new source of renewable energy that will help meet its carbon-free targets while bolstering the power grid.

The measure, SB 605 by Senator Steve Padilla (D-Chula Vista), directs the California Energy Commission to work with relevant state agencies to study the feasibility and potential for wave and tidal energy development in California, and sets deadlines to report its findings to the Legislature and Governor.
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Marine Science

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Hanging over the side of the boat, Nahi El Bar Jiyed scoops up a jug of sea water, then carefully pours it into a large syringe. While the sample may seem ordinary, to the biologist it’s a trove of secrets: the DNA of every living creature swimming below.

He presses the water sample through a filter about the size of his hand, which captures the DNA fragments, then repeats the process several more times. Meters away, a sea turtle emerges for a breath then retreats to the seagrass meadow below.
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Pulling power from the ocean is the final frontier for renewable energy (CNET)

With 70% of the Earth’s surface covered by oceans, wave power could be one of our largest energy resources. If you’ve ever been knocked off your feet by a big wave, you’ve felt a smidgeon of that power.

For decades, scientists and engineers have looked to our vast oceans and dreamed of ways to extract a tiny fraction of that energy. In an era of climate awareness and anxiety, finding ways to do that is finally getting more attention.
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Oceans account for 96 per cent of all habitable space on Earth. Scientists have mapped the surface of Mars and Venus more closely than they have the seafloor, with its as yet unnumbered trenches and seamounts. Yet many marine species that once teemed in their millions have been harried close to extinction by nets, longlines and harpoons. The scale of the loss is mind-boggling. For every three hundred green turtles that swam the Caribbean before industrialized fishing, just one is left. Ninety per cent of the world’s large fish and oyster beds have gone. Seagrass meadows are disappearing at a rate of 7 per cent per year. Only one in twenty blue whales remain.
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As ocean oxygen levels dip, fish face an uncertain future (yale.edu)

Global warming not only increases ocean temperatures, it triggers a cascade of effects that are stripping the seas of oxygen. Fish are already moving to new waters in search of oxygen, and scientists are warning of the long-term threat to fish species and marine ecosystems.

The reason for this mass invasion, says Pauly, is extremely low oxygen levels in these polluted waters. Fish species that can’t cope with less oxygen have fled, while the Bombay duck, part of a small subset of species that is physiologically better able to deal with less oxygen, has moved in.
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U.S. manufacturing takes up a lot of energy, but there’s untapped potential in solar power for that sector, new research finds. A study looked at how installing solar panels throughout manufacturing sites could meet a third of that sector’s power needs.

Researchers used a survey from the Department of Energy and compared states to understand where rooftop solar could best supply electricity needs for manufacturing. They found that companies that focus on textiles, apparel, and furniture would benefit the most from transitioning to solar energy. Their work is published in the journal Environmental Research: Sustainability and Infrastructure.
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Our oceans are a crucial asset: a precious habitat to millions of species, a vital carbon sink, and a key determinant of environmental and human health. The oceans also provide an essential source of food and act as an enabler of global trade—an emerging idea called the blue economy. The World Bank defines the blue economy as “the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, improved livelihoods, and jobs while preserving the health of ocean ecosystems.”
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Aquaculture Equipment Market size will surpass USD 247 billion by 2032, according to the recent report by Global Market Insights Inc.

The industry growth is driven by the increasing demand for sustainable seafood. With the surge in worldwide population, there has also been a rise in awareness about the health benefits of seafood. With traditional fishing practices facing challenges due to overfishing and environmental concerns, aquaculture has emerged as a viable solution to meet the growing demand for seafood while preserving marine ecosystems. Moreover, widespread adoption of advanced aquaculture technologies, such as recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) and aquaponics, is also shaping the market outlook.
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The United States is an ocean nation with a growing Blue Economy. Coastal communities in the U.S. are home to over 127 million people, 40% of the population. In 2019, the American blue economy grew faster than the nation’s economy in its entirety, supporting 2.4 million jobs and contributing $397 billion to the nation’s gross domestic product through activities such as tourism and recreation, shipping and transportation, commercial and recreational fishing, power generation, research, and related goods and services.

Mariner-related gross domestic product grew 4.2% from 2014 to 2019, much faster than the 2.2% growth of the total U.S. gross domestic product1. The economic activity of America’s seaports alone grew 17% from 2014-2018 to $5.4 trillion, comprising nearly 26% of the nation’s $20.5 trillion gross domestic product (GDP)2. And despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, American seaports are adding terminals and piers, and demand for maritime commerce is expected to triple by 2030.
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Fishermen and farmers alike are taking to the waters to produce protein to feed the world—from finfish to shellfish to seaweed.Aquaculture, sometimes called aquafarming, is the breeding, raising, growing, and harvesting of aquatic organisms in fresh and salt water for human consumption and conservation alike—and the nuances of what it entails are vast.

Dating back more than 4,000 years, aquaculture gradually expanded from China to the rest of the world, and has gained most of its popularity in the 21st century. Today, it’s the fastest growing industry for producing protein, one of the basic building blocks of our diet.
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Regenerative aquaculture crucial to avoid seafood shortage by 2050 (thefishsite.com)

According to a new report published by non-profit financial think tank Planet Tracker, even in the most optimistic scenario of improving current aquaculture practices, a 50 million tons supply gap would still exist by 2050, meaning change is critical.

Analysis by Planet Tracker found that while technological solutions – such as farming seafood offshore, or on land or growing fish in labs – could contribute up to 5 million additional tons of seafood by 2050, embracing regenerative aquaculture – the production of food from the sea that provide benefits to the ecosystem, such as water filtering by bivalves (eg oysters, mussels and clams) or carbon sequestration by seaweed – could produce an additional 45 million tons of seafood and meet growing demand.
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San Diego Bay is our region’s most precious resource, and it connects us to a shared culture. From the homeland of Indigenous nations and rich marine wildlife to a center for fish processing and aerospace factories, it boasts a rich history. Today it’s studded with shipyards, cargo terminals and the Naval Base. It’s known for much more than industry alone, the waterfront is a gathering place — a treasured destination for picnics, sunsets, public art walks and community celebrations.

It may come as a surprise that many San Diego-area youth — our next generation — tell us they have never been to the waterfront that plays such an important part in our collective experience.
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A groundbreaking expedition to the Galápagos led by legendary explorer Sylvia Earle and locally based marine biologist Alex Hearn could provide a blueprint for protecting the world ocean. Without a healthy ocean, there is no habitable Earth. The world ocean produces at least 50 percent of our oxygen and regulates the climate. And yet, according to the U.N., less than 10 percent of it is under official protection.

“The ecosystems of the ocean are the engine that make Earth livable,” says Sylvia Earle, the pioneering oceanographer and explorer. “But, even now, most people don’t think of the ocean as the headline when they’re talking about climate and environment.”

Earle has dedicated her entire career to making the ocean the headline. Nicknamed “Her Deepness,” Earle has been a trailblazer since the 1970s, when, among many other achievements, she lived underwater for two weeks in the famed Tektite II experiment and later set the world record for the deepest-ever untethered dive. Earle also became a Rolex Testimonee in 1982, kicking off a 40-year (and counting) collaboration focused on protecting the ocean and keeping our planet perpetual.
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