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We are looking for a research assistant that will help manage an aquaculture system and evaluate the viability of its filtration system.
Our experiments show that the use of duckweeds not only significantly affects the cost of aquaculture and alleviate pressure on wild fish population, but that duckweeds also address water pollution created by the introduction of aquaculture and thus improves the aquatic environment for the fish.
The goal of the current project is to better understand the benefits from the photosynthesis filtration system. The filtration system is connected to two 600-gallon tanks where duckweed is used to support water quality and feed the fish. In this project, we will estimate waste production as well as methods for waste capture and reuse in the recirculating loop and effluents of freshwater. The project will evaluate the efficiency and the economic viability of processes leading to waste capture and conversion and compare them to those used for waste reduction.
The Aresty student will take an active part in running and documenting water quality and fish health and evaluate the hypotheses.
The student will also become part of our team and help us document our results, describe the data and make our finding known and presented such that others can replicate them. The student will help evaluate the viability of photosynthesis based filtration systems.
The project will use the findings and information to enumerate the conditions that will be critical for these systems to become commercial and widely used.
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