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Page 1 of 2 USDA-NIFA-SBIR-009642 8.7 Aquaculture Hawaii Fish Company Inc.Aquaponics is a rapidly emerging form of agriculture poised to provide farmers a highly sustainableand profitable means of producing locally-grown nutritious food. The majority of commercialaquaponics farmers utilize deep-water culture (DWC) systems with floating rafts and usuallyfabricate their own rafts from construction-g ...

There is a growing need to accurately characterize nuclear materials not only for nuclear safeguards and nonproliferation treaty verification but also for forensics and provenance. At present, nuclear material identification requires samples to be collected and sent to laboratories for analysis using large and expensive equipment, such as inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers (ICP-MS) or s ...

This proposal for Phase II in response to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) topic 212-006 “Algorithm that can locally link radiation detectors (of different resolutions) to enhance identification/ localization capability”. The topic describes the need for an algorithm to support the fusion of multiple and varied detector outputs into actionable information. The specific focus is to id ...

PROJECTSUMMARY Project Title: Overcoming Risks to Fully Commercialize Breadfruit Manufacturing and MarketingThroughaCooperativeFrameworktoSupportSmallDiversifiedFarmers PI: ShapiroDana Institution:Hawai'i'UluProducersCooperative Hawai'i'UluProducersCooperative(HUC)isanagriculturalcooperativeinHawai'i with 148current members across fourislandswhooperatesmalldiversifiedfarms.HUC's missionistorevital ...

The proposed work directly responds to USDA SBIR Research Priority 8.7 Aquaculture bydeveloping methods to accelerate maturity in Seriola rivoliana (a high-value marine finfish). Thiswill reduce generation time allowing for accelerated selective breeding programs. The objectivesof Phase II are to use hormonal and molecular tools to induce puberty and yield reproductivelymature broodfish at the ear ...

We propose developing new instrumentation based on swept-wavelength external cavity quantum cascade lasers (swept-ECQCLs), to acquire physical/chemical data on chemical weapon agent (CWA) and simulant properties in laboratory-scale explosive testing, and to improve/validate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes. In Phase I, we demonstrated laboratory measurements of CWA simulant combustion usin ...

Our research is focused on developing and scaling up techniques to divert construction anddemolition debris wood waste (C&D) from landfills and re-use it as a feedstock to make sustainableaviation fuel and green hydrogen.This Phase II follow-on research will focus on a ten-fold scale-up gasification trial on actual C&Dwood waste taking it from a bench-scale reactor test to an integrated laboratory ...

Mahimahi have tremendous aquaculture potential with incredible growth rates well- established broodstock and hatchery procedures and ready acceptance by U.S. consumers.  However two constraints currently prevent commercial mahimahi culture: male aggression  and reduced growth performance in sexually mature females.     We intend to resolve these two im ...

Purpose: This project team will fully develop and test Fate and Fortune, an online class-wide intervention where grade 8 students learn algebra within a story-based game. Research demonstrates that students who do not succeed in algebra are more likely to eventually drop out of high school. When students begin Algebra I, a lack of conceptually meaning and understanding can be further reinforced by ...

Small satellites have proven capable and cost effective, and innovative payloads and technologies will expand the mission space that CubeSats can support. ATA proposes to build a CubeSat-sized laser communications prototype payload, adapting high photon efficiency optical communications techniques to achieve data transfer rates up to 100 mega-bits per second (Mbps) with the small apertures require ...