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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 ...

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 ...

Paradigm Shift Technology for Scalable High-Density High-Yield Commercial Multi-SpeciesMariculturePROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: Farm efficiency and commercial competitiveness for kelpfarming and multi-species mariculture (kelp plus shell-fish) will be meaningfully enhancedthrough successful final development and commercialization of novel technology that Blue DotSea Farms (BDSF) has significantly demo ...

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 ...

Detection of viruses is a critical priority to mitigate spread of diseases that threaten plant healthfruit yield and quality and the US horticulture industry's economic bottom-line. NuPhY's USDASBIR Phase II work will optimize our viral enrichment and high-throughput sequencing (HTS)- based diagnostic platform for broad-spectrum virus screening in horticultrual crops.The proposed work aligns with ...

The ongoing development of new, improved technology for both hardware and software leads to the almost constant upgrade of existing strategic sensor and communications systems and the development and deployment of new systems.  This work addresses warfighter concerns raised in the area of satellite communications and radar, where burst-produced ionospheric disturbances can cause scintillation of ...

SBIR Phase II: Converting Organic Waste to Biopolymer by Synergizing AnaerobicDigestion and Synthetic BiologyThe urgency for combating climate change has created a massive market demand fortechnologies that use renewable resources instead of petroleum. The hundreds of million tonsof organic waste generated annually domestically as an untapped resource provide a low- hanging fruit opportunity with ...

To support DTRA’s agent-defeat efforts, we will refine a laser-based Optical Thermocouple (OTC) technology and build and deliver to DTRA a hardened OTC prototype. This OTC system will be capable of quantifying the localized temporal evolution of temperature inside a detonation environment. The OTC technology is based on two-color fluorescence thermometry to determine the temperature. After laser ...

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 ...

This project will convert the Modular Insect Trap patented by Lt. Matthew Yans USN into a mass- manufacturable trap suitable for surveillance of ticks of veterinary importance. The novel productwill be easy to store transport and deploy; will include a long-lasting shelf-stable lure; and willcapture multiple tick species for periodic identification counting and analysis for harboredpathogens.In Ph ...