Archive - Macro Oceans News

So What’s in My Kelp Anyways?

A deeper dive into kelp composition

Mar 12 •

Matthew Perkins

February 2024

Macro Oceans Update: February 2024

Sea to Sale + Sea Soaked Skin

Feb 12 •

James Edward Dillard

December 2023

A year of firsts

Looking back at our 2023 and ahead to 2024

Dec 27, 2023 •

Matthew Perkins

November 2023

Seaweed: the perfect clean beauty ingredient

Introducing Hydrating Marine Polysaccharides, a natural bioactive from regenerative Alaska seaweed

Nov 14, 2023 •

Matthew Perkins

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James Edward Dillard

September 2023

Alaska kelp harvest down 30% in 2023 as farmers wait for market to catch up

Results from our 2023 survey of kelp growers in Alaska

Sep 6, 2023 •

Matthew Perkins

August 2023

A simple seaweed value chain

An overview of the industry and the categories of organizations in it

Aug 1, 2023 •

James Edward Dillard

April 2023

Making low-carbon chemicals from sunlight, seawater, and seaweed

We grow insane amounts of corn – about one ton for every person in the United States. Most of it doesn’t end up on dinner plates but in cars, animals…

Apr 7, 2023 •

Matthew Perkins

September 2022

Alaska kelp harvest grows by 27%, reaches half a million pounds in 2022

Results from our 2022 survey of Alaskan kelp grower

Sep 12, 2022 •

Matthew Perkins

January 2022

Reflecting on 2021

Before I dive into 2022, I wanted to pause and reflect on what I’ve learned this past year whilst building Macro Oceans.

Jan 1, 2022 •

Matthew Perkins

July 2021

Ready, set, biorefine

Test tubes are rarely sexy, except perhaps when they are full of kelp ...

Jul 2, 2021 •

Matthew Perkins

February 2021

Biorefining: the key to kickstarting a seaweed-based bioeconomy

Part 4 of our Exploring Seaweed Series ... So if seaweed is a zero-input crop and we have the potential to grow a lot more and bite into $100bn markets…

Feb 8, 2021 •

Matthew Perkins

January 2021

Seaweed can bite into $100bn+ markets (and save a lot of carbon too)

Part 3 of our Exploring Seaweed Series ... Seaweed is a mainstay of Asian diets. In Japan, on average more than 30 different types of seaweed are…

Jan 20, 2021 •

Matthew Perkins

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