Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Marine ecologist Jennifer Smith is working on cultivating a type of seaweed with the potential to be a climate change solution. When fed to cows, the seaweed "Asparagopsis taxiformis" can generate a 95% reduction in methane produced by the bacteria that help with ruminant digestion in livestock.
Cows, sheep, goats and buffalo burp out the methane equivalent of over three gigatons of carbon dioxide per year. The livestock industry as a whole emits an equivalent amount of greenhouse gasses as the entire global transportation industry.
In this talk, Smith discusses her role in advancing the cultivation of this mighty seaweed, and the potential for scalability. With the help of scientists, entrepreneurs, startups, philanthropists and investors, can we grow enough of this beautiful red seaweed to have an impact?
Read more about this powerful seaweed here: https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/around-pier-usurp-burp.
To learn how to support this research, email siodev@ucsd.edu.
#ClimateSolutions #ScrippsOceanographyDiscovers #Seaweed #Asparagopsis #ScrippsInstitutionofOceanography #UCSanDiego #MarineBiology #JenniferSmith #ClimateChange #CowBurps
Marine ecologist Jennifer Smith is working on cultivating a type of seaweed with the potential to be a climate change solution. When fed to cows, the seaweed "Asparagopsis taxiformis" can generate a 95% reduction in methane produced by the bacteria that help with ruminant digestion in livestock.
Cows, sheep, goats and buffalo burp out the methane equivalent of over three gigatons of carbon dioxide per year. The livestock industry as a whole emits an equivalent amount of greenhouse gasses as the entire global transportation industry.
In this talk, Smith discusses her role in advancing the cultivation of this mighty seaweed, and the potential for scalability. With the help of scientists, entrepreneurs, startups, philanthropists and investors, can we grow enough of this beautiful red seaweed to have an impact?
Read more about this powerful seaweed here: https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/around-pier-usurp-burp.
To learn how to support this research, email siodev@ucsd.edu.
#ClimateSolutions #ScrippsOceanographyDiscovers #Seaweed #Asparagopsis #ScrippsInstitutionofOceanography #UCSanDiego #MarineBiology #JenniferSmith #ClimateChange #CowBurps
