Ep. 43 Biostimulant: a soil solution from the sea with Daria Parshina and Nina Bangert

Sargassum beaching events have become an international challenge that requires globally-cooperative solutions. With such pressing challenges, thankfully, come incredibly innovative solutions to sargassum overproduction and decay.  Due to climate change, there is more and more sargassum on shores, which creates trouble for marine ecosystems and coastal communities. Our guests today work to turn that issue into agricultural opportunities for localized communities.  Today, we talk to Daria Parshina and Nina Bangert, who is part of Seasoilution, a social entrepreneur initiative that turns sargassum into fertilizer.

- Introduction to Daria and Nina (2:20)  

- What sargassum means for Daria and Nina (4:20)  

- How much sargassum is there in a beaching, really? (6:30)  

- How Seasoilution's product works as a biostimulant (also, what a biostimulant is) (7:15)  

- Why are petroleum-based fertilizers bad? (9:45)  

- Why should you care about local communities affected by sargassum? (10:20)  - 

- What did you learn first-hand from your trip to sargassum territory? (12:35)  - 

- Why are people from Europe concerned about the Caribbean sargassum problems? (14:24)  

- How does the interdisciplinary nature of your work affect your success? (16:24)  

- How would you encourage students to take part in the solutions to environmental issues? (19:23)  

- Wrap-up and debrief (21:05)

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