About this page
This page is written for the people most likely to be skeptical of us: researchers and analytical scientists. The specific research questions, collection regions, and process detail are not on this page. That conversation happens after a mutual NDA. The contact form takes two business days to answer.
The collection discipline, in plain language.
We collect in open water, before the material makes landfall, with the surrounding seawater it has been living in. We document conditions at the collection site, characterize the material on-site before it changes, and prepare samples according to what the downstream analysis requires. Chain of custody is not an afterthought. It is the whole point.
The four stages
Click any stage for a deeper description.
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STAGE 01
Field collection
Site assessment and field operations.
What we do: Identify collection sites, characterize the material on-site, document seasonal and geographic variation, build relationships with local partners.
What we measure: Material density, moisture, baseline composition, weather, and tide conditions.
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STAGE 02
Sample preparation
Cleaning, drying, and characterization.
What we do: Wash, dry, and grind collected material. Establish baseline characterization so downstream work has a stable input.
What we measure: Moisture, particle size, ash, baseline elemental composition.
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STAGE 03
Applied study
Iterative testing with university partner labs.
What we do: Run small-scale studies alongside partner labs, vary conditions, log everything, build toward a reproducible protocol.
What we measure: Yield, purity, conversion time, byproducts, energy and water use.
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STAGE 04
Iteration
Refining the loop based on what the data says.
What we do: Move the best results into a refined pass. Test throughput, repeatability, and economics.
What we measure: Throughput, unit cost, environmental footprint, operator hours.
The half of the page most people want us to write.
We are not a publishing lab. We do not have instruments. We are the field collection and sample preparation arm that serious research programs need and rarely have the capacity to run in open-water conditions. The value we add is in what we deliver to a partner lab and the documentation that comes with it.
The shape of a sample you can defend in a paper.
A good sample from us comes with:
- Collection coordinates and conditions
- Tide and weather data
- Time from collection to preparation
- Baseline characterization of the material
- Documentation of any decisions made in the field that affected the sample
We are not cutting corners on any of that because the science downstream depends on it.
If you work in analytical chemistry, marine biology, or a related field and you have wanted access to well-documented pelagic sargassum samples, we should talk.