Benjamin Chiau-pin Wu;David Stephen;David Vancott Jones;Gaye Elizabeth Morgenthaler
发明人:
Benjamin Chiau-pin Wu,David Stephen,Gaye Elizabeth Morgenthaler,David Vancott Jones
申请号：
US13203827
公开号：
US20120058542A1
申请日:
2010.03.10
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要：
The invention relates to systems and methods for regulating algal biomass in offshore waters near an oil and gas production platform. The systems of the invention encompasses a plurality of modules for managing nutrients, algae, and aquaculture, including enclosures for containing aquatic organisms, and various operating subsystems that are operably associated with surface and underwater structures of the platform. In one embodiment of the invention, aquatic organisms are cultured in eutrophic water to feed on algae, thereby reducing the algal biomass. In other embodiments, the diversity of algae in an algal bloom is modified and the productivity of oligotrophic water is increased.
