By pennywhite

Penny spends half her time as a MSc student studying Porphyra in the Resource Mangement and Environmental Studies program and the other half studying Porphyra on Gabriola Island. Her continued involvement with First Nation fishery departments gives her a unique perspecitive on marine biology and how important business and policy are to functioning in the real world. Thus she returned to school to take courses and to finally get back into the field. She likes taking photos of seaweed, musicians, babies, fog/mist, and her dog.

FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH EQUALS PHORPHYRA SP. (IT WOULDN’T HURT)

The SCQ is happy to partake in the Week of Science initiative, and will have only textbook pieces for this particular week. If you need a breather, please take a moment to peruse our humour section. That should work nicely – – – INTRODUCTION The red algal Porphyra sp. is thought to be the single most important seaweed genus for providing food globally (Madlener 1977, Indergaard 1983, Kenicer et al. 2000). It is a common and conspicuous component of rocky intertidal habitats in temperate marine waters worldwide and is widely utilized by humans for its nutritional values nearly universally where…

FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH EQUALS PHORPHYRA SP. (IT WOULDN’T HURT)

The SCQ is happy to partake in the Week of Science initiative, and will have only textbook pieces for this particular week. If you need a breather, please take a moment to peruse our humour section. That should work nicely – – – INTRODUCTION The red algal Porphyra sp. is thought to be the single most important seaweed genus for providing food globally (Madlener 1977, Indergaard 1983, Kenicer et al. 2000). It is a common and conspicuous component of rocky intertidal habitats in temperate marine waters worldwide and is widely utilized by humans for its nutritional values nearly universally where…