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ALT Group of happy people at a get-together
ALT Group of people at a table, smiling at the camera.
ALT Image of newsletter
ALT Man standing in water on farm
ALT Dr Neil Coughlan standing in the corridor of UCC's Quad. Image: UCC TV's Rubén Tapia.
ALT Group of people in a building
ALT Filming indoor with purple light
ALT Group of people with glasshouses in the background
ALT Two males by a pond of shallow water on a farm
ALT People standing around a duckweed growth setup, created from a IBC with a cover to give shelter from rain and too bright sunshine.
ALT People gathered around the duckweed growth tank outside. The tank is made from an IBC with a perspex and cheesecloth cover to protect from rain and direct sunlight.
ALT A hand held out with duckweed sticking to the fingers
ALT Grace O' Sullivan, PhD candidate UCC demonstrating different optimal growth patterns of Duckweed from her experimental research.
ALT Prof Marcel Jansen explaining the indoor stacked growth system for duckweeds under UV lights.
ALT Mr. Stephen O’Sullivan from the Green Famer Cooperative, Co. Tipperary discussing the potential of growing Duckweeds for farmers to thrive in the new Circular Bio-Economy. https://greenfarmercoopltd.eu/
ALT Front cover of Duckweed Forum newsletter, Volume 11, with four photos. Images showing the quad at University College Cork, duckweed tanks in a cascading system, fingers lifting duckweed from the water, and the large flow-through system where duckweed is grown in Mount Lucas. Text below the photos says: Duckweed Workshop in Cork, Ireland.
ALT Brainwaves Dylan Gwynn Jones interviewing for ‘Farming Today’ BBC Radio 4
ALT Brainwaves Dylan Gwynn Jones interviewing for ‘Farming Today’ BBC Radio 4