“This project aims to incorporate new innovative approaches into coral restoration while also bringing together many years of experience of coral spawning that is dispersed across several institutions working on Florida’s Coral Reef,” said Andrew Baker, Principal Investigator of the grant.

By pairing the region’s surge of sargassum seaweed with an unlikely partner—black soldier flies—the Rosenstiel School’s aquaculture team is exploring how this growing environmental nuisance could be transformed into a more sustainable food future