On behalf of the Blue Economy CRC Board and team, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Blue Economy CRC team, our Participants, Board, stakeholders and the public for their ongoing support.
We look forward to an exciting 2023 as many projects build momentum and new projects are launched.
Have a safe festive season and best wishes for the New Year.
The Annual Report provides a record of the highlights and achievements, research progress and outcomes, case studies, education and training and communications carried out by the Blue Economy CRC over the year.
This event is only open to all Blue Economy CRC Participants.
Building on the success of our Brisbane and Hobart workshops, it will bring together attendees from our 43 industry, government and research partners of the Blue Economy CRC to collaborate in panel and theme discussions, keynote sessions, workshops and networking sessions.
An exciting agenda will be developed with our Participants and shared in early 2023.
Accommodation can now be booked at the Esplanade with delegates having access to a discounted group rate via the provided link.
The inaugural Blue Economy CRC Summer School will be held in Albany, Western Australia from 23rd to 27th January, 2023.
Current Blue Economy CRC PhD students are invited to attend this week-long school along with BE CRC academics and fellow HDR students with opportunities to present their work, learn from keynote lectures, participate in workshop/group activities and expand their professional networks.
The Summer School is being coordinated by Dr Jana Orszaghova, Deputy Program Leader of the Offshore Renewable Energy Systems program and Research Fellow at University of Western Australia.
As Jana states,
"The summer school is a unique opportunity for our PhD Scholars and young engineers and scientists from our industry partner organisations to immerse themselves in blue economy themes for a week."
"We have a packed program of diverse activities in the classroom and in the ocean, engaging with local stakeholders including the Port of Albany, the Albany Shellfish Hatchery and the historic Whaling Station. We look forward to hosting everyone in this beautiful part of WA."
We look forward to this inaugural event and showcasing the week's activities.
The Blue Economy CRC has released its ambition for ‘Tasmania’s sustainable ocean economy beyond 2033’.
The Ambition offers a new approach to sustainable ocean economies and ocean stewardship for Tasmania and shows what is possible.
It includes a roadmap, a series of opportunities that centre on shared values based on what we heard from a broad range of stakeholders and consolidates best practice principles and case studies. It has considered this approach in the context of Tasmania’s finfish aquaculture industry.
The intended audience ranges from policy makers, regulators, government, industries, supply chain, retailers, interest groups, community, and research institutions.
The release of the Ambition follows the release of a Report that captures what was heard directly from stakeholders over the past 6 months as part of a series of events hosted by the BE CRC. Running parallel to the Tasmanian Government’s formal process for developing a new Salmon Plan, these independent events showed the conversation stretched beyond just a single sector and that consideration of one sector in isolation of other ocean industries and ocean stewardship was not enough.
Professor Ki-Hoon Lee joined us as Deputy Program Leader for the Sustainable Offshore Developments program at the commencement of the CRC.
He has recently resigned from his role at Griffith University, and as a consequence, stepped down from his Deputy Leader role in RP5.
On behalf of all the members of the Program and the Blue Economy CRC, I wish Ki-Hoon all the best in his future endeavours and thank him most sincerely for his work over the past 4 years.
Professor Marcus Haward RP5 Program Leader
Identifying the potential of floating artificial benthic ecosystems to underpin offshore development
This report focuses on examining the feasibility of floating artificial reefs to address a range of ecosystem services, with a primary focus on food production and twin-functioning with energy installations.
In this scoping study, floating artificial reefs are defined as man-made structures that mimic the natural reefs, suspended from the surface to depths that are still within the photic zone, generally between 5 and 40 metres.
The report’s authors wish to acknowledge the input of the project partners to the research, their engagement in the project workshop and comments on the report: Rouzbeh Abbassi, SmartCrete CRC; Adam Brancher, Southern Ocean Carbon Company; Sven Frijlink, Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Tasmanian Government; Frances Huddlestone, Oysters Tasmania; Gregory Page, Southern Blue Reefs; Kristien Veys, Blauwe Cluster, Belgium; and Brian von Herzen, Climate Foundation.
Brigette Wright spoke on this research project at Ecological Society of Australia Conference in Wollongong November 2023.
We are pleased to announce the successful bid for the Blue Economy CRC to host the
2024 International Conference on Ocean Energy in Melbourne.
The International Conference on Ocean Energy (ICOE) is a global ocean energy event focused on the industrial development of renewable ocean energy. ICOE is hosted by Ocean Energy Systems (OES), a technology collaboration programme within the International Energy Agency (IEA/OES).
Held every two years, the goal of the conference and exhibition is to share recent experiences from research and demonstration efforts. ICOE traditionally has a very strong market focus and attracts over 700-1000 delegates to its events and has the biggest trade show of any ocean energy event internationally.
Deputy Leaders of the Offshore Renewable Energy Systems Program, Dr Jana Orszaghova and Associate Professor Kosala Gunawardane joined delegates from Partners Carnegie and BMT at the World Renewable Energy Conference (WREC2022) in Perth from the 4th - 9th December.
The event, themed Renewable Energy: A pathway to economic recovery and climate change mitigation featured speakers from across the globe with both Dr Orszaghova and Assoc Prof Gunawardane presenting and representing the Blue Economy CRC as sponsors of the event.
Visiting our WA Partners ~ The University of Western Australia & Carnegie Clean Energy
November saw the team travel to Perth where they were hosted by The University of Western Australia (UWA) and Carnegie Clean Energy.
Thank you to the University of Western Australia for showcasing your world-class facilities including the Coastal and Offshore Engineering Lab and the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems Centrifuge facility.
Carnegie presented progress updates for the MoTWEC and MoorPower Scaled Demonstrator projects and a tour of the facility where they saw the Mooring Tensioner testing in progress and viewed the MoorPower barge being prepared for deployment in 2023.
The World Aquaculture Singapore 2022 Conference & Partner visits
In December the team travelled to Singapore to attend the World Aquaculture Singapore 2022 conference and visits to our Singapore partners and research facilities.
They visited the Technology Centre for Offshore and Marine, Singapore (TCOMS) a national R&D centre dedicated to the Marine & Offshore and Maritime sectors and the National University of Singapore.
This was followed by a visit to the Temasek Polytechnic Advanced Manufacturing Centre (TP-AMC), hosted by Temasek Poly, Mr Khoo Hock, visiting their Advanced Manufacturing Centre. TP-AMC is a partner of OceanPixel for various capabilities/projects including Digital Transformation efforts such as Digital Twins. Thank you to Prof Chan Eng Soon (CEO TCOMS) and Prof Okky Purwana (NUS) and the team at Ocean Pixel for coordinating the visit.
Wrapping up the trip, the delegation was invited to the fifth Society of Floating Solutions Singapore annual dinner at the Marriot Tang hotel, meeting many society members that worked on offshore and marine structures, followed by a visit to the Aquaculture Centre of Excellence (ACE) ECO-ARK® AQUACULTURE 4.0.
ACE aims to revolutionise fish farming with an eco-friendly, cost effective and sustainable method; allowing fresh and healthy fish to be readily available to consumers everywhere. ACE’s Eco Ark operates on an automated tank cleaning system and feeder system, the integration of the two under one roof creating an optimal environment for healthy fish to be raised and harvested.
Tasmania’s Oceans of Opportunity
Wednesday 21st December 3pm - 4.30pm AEDT
Healthy oceans are critical to our way of life, yet contemporary, integrated and wholistic approaches to ocean governance remain uncommon.
To truly understand and support a single ocean industries aspiration, challenges, and opportunities – we argue these activities should be considered and governed in a broader oceans framework.
Throughout 2022, the Blue Economy CRC hosted a series of events with stakeholders invested in Tasmanian oceans and the Tasmanian Salmon industry. Running parallel to the Tasmanian Government’s formal process for developing a new Salmon Plan, these independent events showed the conversation was stretching beyond just a single sector and that consideration of one sector in isolation of other ocean industries and ocean stewardship was not enough.
In addition to reporting what was heard directly from stakeholders at these events, the Blue Economy CRC also developed an ambition for ‘Tasmania’s sustainable ocean economy beyond 2033’. This offers a new approach to pursuing a sustainable ocean economy and ocean stewardship for Tasmania and shows what is possible when industries are balanced by nature and supported by innovation.
The intended audience of these two reports ranges from policymakers, regulators, government, industries, supply chain, retailers, interest groups, community and research institutions.
The following scoping projects have launched within this last quarter across our five research programs.
Click on the below projects to find out more. or view our current projects page for a full listing of active projects.
The Blue Economy CRC places heavy emphasis on Education & Training, with an unprecedented scale of research opportunities on offer, including fully funded Higher Degree by Research (HDR) PhD scholarships across its five research programs.
We are pleased to introduce some of ourlatest PhD scholars who have joined us.
The 42nd Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering Conference (OMAE) hosted by the OOAE Division of ASME will be held in Melbourne, Australia in 11-16 June 2023.
OMAE combines Academia with Industry to adapt scientific achievements into practical applications for a smart, sustainable, and safe use of our oceans.
Through their role as members in the Local Organizing Committee of OMAE 2023, RP1 leadership team Prof CM Wang and Dr Nagi Abdussamie have created a new symposium (Symposium 13: Blue Economy) within the OMAE conference program.
The symposium was initiated to cover emerging technologies in the context of the blue economy with a focus on aquaculture and renewable energy applications. Technical areas currently covered by Blue Economy Symposium are offshore aquaculture farming infrastructure (e.g., fish pen designs, seaweed/kelp production systems, mooring and anchoring systems), offshore artificial reefs, offshore aquaculture service vessels, multi-purpose offshore platforms (e.g., large integrated or co-located floating platforms for aquaculture farms and offshore renewable energy systems, wind-wave farms, floating energy islands, and floating laboratories), and offshore technologies for aquaculture farms and offshore renewable energy systems (e.g., autonomous marine systems, antibiofouling and net-cleaning solutions).
The Blue Economy Symposium has received 40+ abstracts with the submission of full-length paper for review due on the 9th January 2023. As part of the conference program, there will be short courses and technical tours.
For more information about the 42nd OMAE Conference, please visit OMAE 2023.
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