Global Seaweed Network: A Global Seaweed Strategy
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Juliet Brodie1, Leila Hayashi2, Erick I. Ask3, Alan T. Critchley4
1Natural History Museum, London, UK; 2Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Departamento de Aquicultura, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil; 3FMC Biopolymer, Philadelphia, PA, USA; 4Acadian Seaplants Limited, Dartmonth, Nova Scotia, Canada
email: [email protected]
The Global Seaweed Network has been initiated to develop a programme which over the next 5‐10 years will enhance and develop the global seaweed community into an internationally recognized and respected scientific body that can innovate, provide knowledge and tools for scientific research, aquaculture, conservation and society, influence policy makers and enable economic progress. Seven major topics have been identified and under each of these topics, short, medium and long‐term projects have been identified.
Identification
Identification
Taxonomy and Taxonomy and Phylogeny
Phylogeny
Integration and Policy
Aquaculture and Products
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Communication and Outreach
Economics and Society
Ethnophycology
Biodiversity and Conservation
Identification, Taxonomy and Phylogeny
1. Write to Councils of Societies to ensure that all molecular sequence data in publications are deposited in Genbank
2. Identifying seaweed taxonomists
3. Review global Eucheuma and Kappaphycus taxonomy
4. Collecting and preliminary identification, and DNA barcoding seaweeds of the Coral Triangle
5. Review globally the relationship between seaweed biodiversity and coral death
6. Review numbers of commercially important species
7. Review loss of commecially important species
8. Global Corallinales taxonomy
9. Global seaweed taxonomy capacity building project
Project length • Short term
Biodiversity and conservation
1. Compilation of seaweed conservation methods
2. Development of guidelines on management practices for invasive species
3. Development of seaweed count projects with local dive clubs and high schools
4. Quantitative global inventory of seaweed species richness
Project length • Short term
• Medium term
5. How to manage invasive Kappaphycus/Eucheuma
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Aquaculture and Products
1. Survey of scientific input into the seaweed industry
2. Protocol for quarantine of commercial seaweeds
3. Booklet describing species and farming methods
4. Book of seaweed products
5. Culture of Gelidium
6. Population level studies on aquacultured seaweeds (specially Eucheuma)
7. Environmental monitoring program for primary cotonii and spinosum sites
Project length • Short term
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Communication and outreach
1. Publicise the Global Seaweed Network via the web
2. Local scale, recipes and seaweed preparation (e.g. seaweed wraps at spas) of seaweeds for tourists
Project length • Short term
• Medium term
Ethnophycology
1. Common names project
Project length • Medium term
Economics and Society
1.Economic evaluation of seaweed biodiversity, production and marketing
Integration and Policy
1. Development of website and strategy for integration and policy
Project length • Short term
• Long term
Project length • Short term
If you are interested in the project, please contact us
Acknowledgements: This poster has been created on behalf of the Global Seaweed Network Steering Group
Line Le Gall
Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle, Paris
FMC Biopolymers, USA
Acadian Seaplants
Chris Maggs
Siew Moi Phang
Churl H. You
Queen´s University, Belfast
University of Malaysia
Pegasus International, Korea
Mintewab Bezabih
John Bolton
University of Portsmouth
University of Cape Town
Hwan Su Yoon
Flower Msuya
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, USA
Univeristy of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Michael Guiry
National University of Ireland, Galway
Pete Bixler
Ingredients Solutions, Inc., USA
Juliet Brodie
Leila Hayashi
Natural History Museum
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Erick I. Ask
Alan T. Critchley