2024: Maximizing Carbon Sequestration and Avoided Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Eco-friendly Seaweed Processing Systems (Environmental Defense Fund)
SantanKumar Chaurasiya is an EDF-Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Associate. In 2023, Environmental Defense Fund launched a demonstration seaweed and mussel farm in Cabalian Bay, the Philippines, in hopes of understanding whether seaweed production could improve ocean habitats and sequester greenhouse gases, while contributing to more sustainable sources of food, biofuel, cement, plastics or fertilizers. Researchers will collaborate with Philippine farmers to identify the most promising products manufactured from seaweeds in Cabalian Bay. Options include creating biofuels and fertilizers, applying seaweed to livestock manure lagoons to decrease methane emissions, or turning seaweed into plastics, cement composites, adobe, pavement, or roofing materials.
Postdoctoral Associate: SantanKumar Chaurasiya
Cornell Advisor: Fengqi You (Cornell Engineering/Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
EDF Advisor: Gemma Carroll