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SAN DIEGO, CA. (August 27, 2014) — The Engineering and Analysis track of the 8^th Annual Algae Biomass Summit, taking place in San Diego, California, September 29-October 2 will highlight a wide range of new technologies and scientific breakthroughs in algae production systems. Through more than 30 presentations, leading scientists, researchers, and industry innovators will discuss papers and offer presentations on the new methods for analyzing and producing algae-based products such as fuels, animal feed, Omega-3 fatty acids, bioplastics and chemicals. Registration and agenda information is available at http://algaebiomasssummit.org.

“The research breakthroughs on display at this year’s Summit will highlight how our growing understanding of algae cultivation, harvesting and processing is building a brand new industry that can provide sustainable products and services,” said Dr. Anthony Marchese, Director, Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory at Colorado State University and Chair of the Summit’s Engineering & Analysis track, “A wide range of industrial and consumer markets will benefit from the advances in algae engineering and analysis that we will be discussing at the Summit.”

A few of the many high quality speakers and presentations from the Engineering and Analysis track include:

• Todd Lane, Sandia National Laboratories
  Major Nutrient Recycling for Sustainable Algal Production
• Tryg Lundquist, California Polytechnic State University
  Towards Scale-Up of Wastewater-Based Algae Biofuels
• Mathias Mostertz, Linde
  Carbon Dioxide Management for Enhanced Plant Growth: Learning from Terrestrial Plants to Full Solutions for Algae Biofuels
• Neil Osterwalder, Sapphire Energy
  Co-Processing of Green Crude in Existing Petroleum Refineries
• Ali Malekizadeh, The University of Queensland
  Development of Low or No-Energy-Input Microalgae Harvesting Techniques

The Engineering and Analysis track is one of three tracks, plus plenary sessions and posters, which comprise the agenda for the Algae Biomass Summit, the world’s largest conference focused on algae-based technologies. In total, there are expected to be more than 100 live presentations during the Summit. San Diego is a hub of algae industry activity, and hundreds of entrepreneurs, researchers, investors and users of algal products are expected at the event.

The Summit comes at a time when industry is increasingly looking for new sources of alternative fuels, feed stocks, and consumer products. Products made from algae are the natural solution to the energy, food, economic, and climate challenges facing the world today. This tiny powerful organism has the ability to simultaneously put fuels in vehicles, reuse CO₂, provide nutrition for animals and people and create jobs for millions of Americans. More information can be found at www.allaboutalgae.com.

The Algae Biomass Organization (ABO), the trade association for the US algae Industry, produces the Algae Biomass Summit. More information about the Summit can be found at www.algaebiomasssummit.org.

About the Algae Biomass Organization

The Algae Biomass Organization (ABO) is a 501 c(6) non-profit whose mission is to promote the development of viable commercial markets for renewable and sustainable commodities derived from algae. Its membership is comprised of people, companies and organizations across the value chain. More information about ABO, including its leadership, membership, costs, benefits and members and their affiliations, is available at the website: www.algaebiomass.org.

 

San Diego, CA (August 18, 2014) —The 8^th Annual Algae Biomass Summit, taking place in San Diego, California, September 29-October 2 will showcase almost 30 presentations by leading research scientists and experts from universities, companies and several national laboratories in its Progress in Algal Biology track. The sessions will inform technical audiences about the latest algae strain improvement methods involving ‘omics’ and genetic manipulation, and growth and cultivation methods that are making possible the wide-scale commercial production of algae-based products.

“The importance of the increasing number of advances in biology research on display at this year’s Summit cannot be understated,” said Dr. Mark Hildebrand, Director of the Marine Biology Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Chair of the Summit’s Progress in Algal Biology track. “Summit attendees will be engaged in discussions regarding the latest algae-related research and its broad implications for commercial production of algae-derived products in the food, feed, fuel and other commodity markets.”

A few of the many high quality speakers and presentations in the Biology track include:

• Robert McBride, Sapphire Energy
  Impacts of Pond Management Strategies, Community Composition and Dynamics in Open Algae Pond for the Production of Biofuels
• Orly Levitan, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  The Intelligent Design of Algal Biofuels
• Jonathan Shurin, University of California – San Diego
  Experimental Risk Assessment for Dispersal, Invasion, and Impact on Wild Algae of Genetically-Modified Scenedesmus dimorphus
• Jesse Traller, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
  Genome and Methylome of a Candidate Biofuel Organism Provides Insights into Carbon Flux and Regulation
• Paul Roessler, Algenol Biofuels, Inc.
  Photosynthetic production of biofuels from CO2 by cyanobacteria using Algenol’s “Direct to Ethanol®” process: Strain development aspects

The Progress in Algal Biology track is one of four tracks, plus plenary sessions and posters, which comprise the agenda for the Algae Biomass Summit, the largest algae conference in the world. In total, there will be more than 100 live presentations during the Summit. San Diego is a hub of algae industry activity, and hundreds of entrepreneurs, researchers, investors and users of algal products are expected at the event.

The Summit comes at a time when the world is increasingly looking for new sources of alternative fuels, feed stocks, and consumer products. Products made from algae are the natural solution to the energy, food, economic, and climate challenges facing the world today. This tiny powerful organism has the ability to simultaneously put fuels in vehicles, reuse CO₂, provide nutrition for animals and people and create jobs for millions of Americans. More information can be found at www.allaboutalgae.com.

The Algae Biomass Organization (ABO), the trade association for the US algae Industry, produces the Algae Biomass Summit. More information about the Summit can be found at www.algaebiomasssummit.org.

About the Algae Biomass Organization

The Algae Biomass Organization (ABO) is a 501 c(6) non-profit whose mission is to promote the development of viable commercial markets for renewable and sustainable commodities derived from algae. Its membership is comprised of people, companies and organizations across the value chain. More information about ABO, including its leadership, membership, costs, benefits and members and their affiliations, is available at the website: www.algaebiomass.org.

The Department of the Navy’s investments in advanced biofuels could improve national and economic security

SAN DIEGO, Calif.  (July 23, 2014) The Algae Biomass Organization (ABO), the trade association for the algae industry, announced today that Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Energy, Installations and Environment) Dennis McGinn will be a Keynote Speaker at the 8^th Annual Algae Biomass Summit (ABS) – the largest algae conference in the world. The agenda for the Summit, being held September 29-October 2 in San Diego, California can be viewed at: http://www.algaebiomasssummit.org/?page=Agenda.

McGinn is leading the Department of the Navy (DON) in its search to find advanced biofuels that will serve as a sustainable and independent source of energy for DON operations and help bring national and economic security for the nation. Under the Defense Production Act, the DON has looked at numerous feedstocks and the ability to bring larger quantities of advanced alternative fuels to market.  Algae-based fuels have been looked at because of their great potential for becoming sustainable and scalable. A number of ABO member companies, including Cellana, Sapphire Energy, Algenol and Bioprocess Algae are leading the effort and investing hundreds of millions of dollars to commercialize algae-derived automotive, aviation and marine fuels.

“Assistant Secretary McGinn is a well-respected and powerful advocate for the importance of domestically-produced renewable fuels as a strategic imperative for the United States military,” said Matt Carr, Executive Director of ABO. “The algae fuels industry is creating new sources of fuel and energy that will create jobs, increase our energy security and deliver improved performance for our economy.”

McGinn, a 35-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, retired in 2002 after achieving the rank of Vice Admiral. Since then, he has been active in advocating for renewable energy and national security. He is the former President of the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE), an organization dedicated to building a secure and prosperous America with clean, renewable energy.  While at ACORE, he led efforts to communicate the significant economic, security and environmental benefits of renewable energy. McGinn is also a past co-chairman of the CNA Military Advisory Board and an international security senior fellow at the Rocky Mountain Institute.

Hundreds of stakeholders from the algae industry will be in attendance at the Algae Biomass Summit to hear McGinn speak. The Algae Biomass Summit features keynotes, panels and nearly 100 presentations in breakout sessions organized into four tracks: Biology, Engineering & Analysis, Finance & Policy, and Commercialization. More than 100 posters will be on display showcasing groundbreaking new technologies and research. More information about the Summit can be found at www.algaebiomasssummit.org.

About the Algae Biomass Organization

The Algae Biomass Organization (ABO) is a 501(c)(6) non-profit whose mission is to promote the development of viable commercial markets for renewable and sustainable commodities derived from algae. Its membership is comprised of people, companies and organizations across the value chain. More information about ABO, including its leadership, membership, costs, benefits and members and their affiliations, is available at the website: www.algaebiomass.org.

 

WASHINGTON, D.C.  (July 10, 2014) The Algae Biomass Organization congratulates Sapphire Energy on its agreement with Sinopec through the US State Department’s EcoPartnerships program.  This partnership is the latest example of how algae technology developed here in the United States is being sought after around the world. By leveraging Sapphire’s technology to convert waste CO2 into green crude oil, the companies are helping reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions while creating a new source of renewable fuel.   This endeavor should serve as a model for other countries – including the US – to follow, especially in light of new EPA regulations for the reduction of CO2 from coal and natural gas powered electricity generation.

ABO and its membership strongly urge the US EPA to recognize carbon reutilization as an approved mitigation strategy under rule 111(d). Doing so will accelerate the development and adoption of algae-based technologies that convert waste CO2 into a variety of end products that consumers need, from fuel to feed to food, creating thousands of jobs in nearly every state, reducing the harmful effects of climate change, and increasing our nation’s energy and food security.

About the Algae Biomass Organization
The Algae Biomass Organization (ABO) is a 501(c)(6) non-profit whose mission is to promote the development of viable commercial markets for renewable and sustainable commodities derived from algae. Its membership is comprised of people, companies and organizations across the value chain. More information about ABO, including its leadership, membership, costs, benefits and members and their affiliations, is available at the website: www.algaebiomass.org.

 

Event to showcase breakthrough algae technologies in food, fuel, feed and other industrial products

SAN DIEGO, Calif.  (June 26, 2014) The Algae Biomass Organization (ABO), the trade association for the algae industry, announced today the preliminary agenda for the 8^th Annual Algae Biomass Summit, unveiling a list of the latest advances in algae commercialization, research and finance that will be discussed at the largest algae technology conference in the world. The agenda for the Summit, being held September 29^th-October 2^nd in San Diego, California can be viewed at: http://www.algaebiomasssummit.org/?page=Agenda.

ABO chose San Diego for the location of the Summit because the region is a major hub for algae research, commercialization and entrepreneurial activity. The Southwest has also recently been shown to have ample land and saltwater resources required to support a robust algae industry.

“Algae is attracting more attention than ever because we are seeing new production facilities come on line and a growing array of algae-derived products, including biofuels, being offered to consumers,” said Matt Carr, executive director of ABO. “Our meeting in San Diego will highlight the tremendous progress that algae entrepreneurs, researchers and investors have made around the globe. We expect announcements about new breakthroughs and deals in everything from algae fuel, fertilizers, fish and animal feeds, and the role algae can play in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”

The Summit comes at a time when the industry is seeing more algae companies successfully moving their laboratory breakthroughs into the marketplace. Many companies are opening large-scale demonstration and pre-commercial facilities, with expectations for expansion in the future. State and national policy makers are also taking notice. ABO has played an active role in advocating for extended advanced biofuels tax credits and encouraging the EPA to include Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) in addition to Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) as an approved strategy for compliance with new emission rules for power plants.

In addition to plenary sessions featuring leading keynotes and panels on the most pressing topics facing the industry, the conference will feature dozens of presentations in breakout sessions organized into four tracks: Biology, Engineering & Analysis, Finance & Policy, and Commercialization. More than 100 posters have been accepted and will be on display showcasing groundbreaking new technologies and research. More information about the Summit can be found at www.algaebiomasssummit.org.

About the Algae Biomass Organization
The Algae Biomass Organization (ABO) is a 501(c)(6) non-profit whose mission is to promote the development of viable commercial markets for renewable and sustainable commodities derived from algae. Its membership is comprised of people, companies and organizations across the value chain. More information about ABO, including its leadership, membership, costs, benefits and members and their affiliations, is available at the website: www.algaebiomass.org.