About the Seaweed in East Anglia Project
The project will be used by businesses, investors and local authorities to provide an understanding of the opportunity Norfolk has to build a seaweed economy, focusing on three areas:
Scoping farming methods and species, as well as co-location opportunities for seaweed aquaculture
Understanding Norfolk’s production capability of seaweed-based products, including foods and bioplastics
Developing a roadmap for industry and Algae Cluster development
Latest Updates From the Project
Seaweed in East Anglia (SEA) Project Launches in Norfolk
With the aim to identify steps to develop a sustainable and viable seaweed industry in East Anglia, we are very excited to officially launch the Seaweed in East Anglia (SEA) project, which will be delivered by The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture...
Meet the Project Team
Rikke Nagell-Kleven
Hethel Innovation
Rikke Nagell-Kleven founded and has led the AIP group since it was started in June 2021 and has extensive knowledge of the seaweed industry’s current state in Norfolk through her connections with local and international businesses in the space.
Rikke is the Project Manager for the Seaweed in East Anglia project.
If you have any enquiries, you can email her via
rnagell-kleven@hethelinnovation.com
Imogen Shipperlee
Hethel Innovation
Dr Elisa Capuzzo
Cefas
Dr Elisa Capuzzo’s current interest is in supporting the sustainable development of seaweed aquaculture in the UK and abroad. Her work has been focusing on evaluating environmental effects of seaweed aquaculture, sites selection and coastal management for aquaculture, regulation and licensing process, feasibility study of seaweed aquaculture.
Dr Colette Matthewman
University of East Anglia
Professor Shenq Qi
University of East Anglia
Dr Tomás Harrington
University of East Anglia
Dr Tomás Harrington is Associate Professor in Digitalisation and Operations Management at UEA’s Norwich Business School. His research focuses on industrial systems transformation and he will examine the potential in developing competitive supply chains in East Anglia from both supply and demand perspectives.
Dr Gill Malin
University of East Anglia
Dr Gill Malin is an academic at the University of East Anglia and Reader specialising in Biological Oceanography. Her research focusses on the essential roles that photosynthetic marine organisms play in the global biogeochemical cycles, how marine plankton and seaweeds adapt to and influence the environment, and how this could alter with climate change and the sustainable production and exploitation of seaweeds and microalgae for food, feed and other products.
The Seaweed in East Anglia project is funded by the Norfolk Investment Framework.
