MOP Project week 1: Seaweed collection!

So for the past week I've been collecting Hypnea musciformis for my school project.
Ultimately, I want to make awesome compost and fertilizer out of it.
On Monday (1/24/11) from 6am to 7am, Wednesday (1/26/11) 6:30am to 7:30am and this morning from 7:30am to 9:00am I was down at Lipoa in Kihei collecting seaweed.
In my proposal it says it says that I will collect 417 lbs of Hypnea, but since I don't have the space yet at my house I only collected 183 lbs this week.
I took out about 16 lbs and put the seaweed into a blue bucket and rinsed off all the seawater that was sitting on it.

Project Proposal Fall 2010: Maui Invasive Seaweed Collection, Eradication and Experimentation

Maui Invasive Seaweed Collection, Eradication and Experimentation


Yesterday in my oceans 101 class, our project proposals were due. We could pick anything we wanted to do a project on. It could have been anything from a small local project to a large scale national or even international project.
I picked a small scale local project and I named it Invasive Seaweed Collection, Eradication and Experimentation.
We had to cover an introduction, our methods and materials we would need and use, references and an estimated budget.