Jeff Davis, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, has brought together a team of undergraduates to work on this “grand challenge”. The group of young engineers and biologists traveled to the Dominican Republic to understand the scale of the problem and try to find solutions. Dr. Jeff Davis is Associate Professor School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Ciera Hudson is a mechanical engineering student at Georgia Institute of Technology. Also, Jeff explain us about an amazing project using black soldier flies to process Sargassum into fuel.
01:10: Robby introducing our guest
02:00 What is Sargassum for Jeff
03:33 Whats Sargassum for Ciera
04:20 how did this initiative to form a sargassum research group come about
07:46 Description of the research team projects
09:35 using black soldier flies to process Sargassum into biofuel, how it works?
16:28 How they are including local people
17:40 bioaccumulation of heavy metals on Sargassum and the link with black soldier flies
19:30 Challenges on the project
21:55 black soldier flies into new environments, not a concern
23:45 Ciera's advices for woman that are interested in STEM and engineering
26:16 Robby, Holly and Jenna's thoughts as hosts in this interview
The Sargassum Podcast is made possible through funding by the Resilience, Sustainable Energy and Marine Biodiversity Programme (RESEMBID). Financed under the 11th European Development Fund (EDF) Caribbean Overseas Countries and Territories Regional Programme, RESEMBID is being implemented by Expertise France, with the primary stakeholders being the 12 Caribbean Overseas Countries and Territories.
Relevant links
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/07/great-atlantic-sargassum-belt-seaweed-visible-from-space
Jeff Davis
https://davis.ece.gatech.eduhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nO85x-0AAAAJ
Ciera Hudson
linked in https://www.linkedin.com/in/ciera-hudson/
Instagram: @ciera_423
