Brainwaves has finished!
We would like to wish all of our followers a very Happy Christmas & Best Wishes for 2024 🎄.
If you would like to keep up to date with #duckweed research in Prof. Marcel Jansen’s group, you can do this by following @PLANTS_UCC.
📢SAVE THE DATE:
The 7th International Conference on Duckweed Research and Application will be held on 13 – 16 November 2024 in Bangkok. For further info see ruduckweed.org/
Last night we had a proper goodbye to one of the nicest project teams! Celebrating the end of the very successful @BrainwavesEU project with a drink and a laugh.
Thanks to all who worked on this #duckweed project. Of course the work continues with the #DuckFeedProject!
ALT Group of people at a table, smiling at the camera.
📢Brainwaves has come to an end! Diolch, go raibh maith agaibh & thank you to all involved!
The project pioneered a #CicularEconomy model in farming which uses waste water to grow protein-rich animal feed while at the same time cleaning the water.🌱#EUIrelandWales#duckfeed
📢As our #EUIrelandWales funding is coming to an end soon, we have been busy making a video📹of our exciting journey cultivating duckweed from ‘lab to farm’. We look forward to sharing the video soon. Watch this space! @wefowales#DuckFeedProject#CircularEconomy
ALT Filming indoor with purple light
ALT Group of people with glasshouses in the background
ALT Two males by a pond of shallow water on a farm
Great interest in the tour of the duckweed facilities at the stakeholder workshop on Monday. Thank you to all travelling to attend, and for all the great questions asked!
#DuckFeedProject#duckweed#circulareconomy
ALT People standing around a duckweed growth setup, created from a IBC with a cover to give shelter from rain and too bright sunshine.
ALT People gathered around the duckweed growth tank outside. The tank is made from an IBC with a perspex and cheesecloth cover to protect from rain and direct sunlight.
ALT A hand held out with duckweed sticking to the fingers
Great day spent with local dairy farmers at our informal stakeholder engagement event @UCCBEES 👏 to all who attended & to those who gave 👍 presentations. Fantastic interest in developing & integrating #duckweed cultivation in Irish farming 🚜#EUIrelandWales#DuckFeedProject
ALT Grace O' Sullivan, PhD candidate UCC demonstrating different optimal growth patterns of Duckweed from her experimental research.
ALT Prof Marcel Jansen explaining the indoor stacked growth system for duckweeds under UV lights.
ALT Mr. Stephen O’Sullivan from the Green Famer Cooperative, Co. Tipperary discussing the potential of growing Duckweeds for farmers to thrive in the new Circular Bio-Economy. https://greenfarmercoopltd.eu/
The duckweed workshop gets a great write-up in the latest Duckweed Forum newsletter, as well as exposure on the cover.
#DuckFeedProject#duckweed
The newsletter can be downloaded (as well as previous issues) from: ruduckweed.org/uploads/1/0/8…
ALT Front cover of Duckweed Forum newsletter, Volume 11, with four photos. Images showing the quad at University College Cork, duckweed tanks in a cascading system, fingers lifting duckweed from the water, and the large flow-through system where duckweed is grown in Mount Lucas. Text below the photos says: Duckweed Workshop in Cork, Ireland.
📢 #ICYMI …listen to Brainwaves Dylan Gwynn Jones on ‘Farming Today’ BBC Radio 4 talking about growing duckweed as a source of protein for animal feed 🌱 #EUIrelandWales
Listen here from 5.02 sec: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001p1…
📢 Rhag ofn i chi ei golli... gwrandewch ar Brainwaves Dylan Gwynn Jones ar ‘Farming Today’ BBC Radio 4 yn siarad am dyfu Llinad y dwr fel ffynhonnell brotein ar gyfer bwyd anifeiliaid 🌱 #EUIrelandWalesbbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001p1…
ALT Brainwaves Dylan Gwynn Jones interviewing for ‘Farming Today’ BBC Radio 4
📢 Rhag ofn i chi ei golli... gwrandewch ar Brainwaves Dylan Gwynn Jones ar ‘Farming Today’ BBC Radio 4 yn siarad am dyfu Llinad y dwr fel ffynhonnell brotein ar gyfer bwyd anifeiliaid 🌱 #EUIrelandWalesbbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001p1…
ALT Brainwaves Dylan Gwynn Jones interviewing for ‘Farming Today’ BBC Radio 4