Fwd: [EBM Help] 3D printing for marine conservation
SCB Marine
From: shaili johri <shaili...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 7:24 PM
Subject: [EBM Help] 3D printing for marine conservation
To: SCB Marine Section <scbmari...@gmail.com>
From: sarah--- via EBMHelp <ebm...@list.octogroup.org>
Date: Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 1:07 PM
Subject: [EBM Help] ADDITIONAL RESPONSES: 3D printing for marine conservation
To: <sa...@octogroup.org>
Cc: <sa...@octogroup.org>, OCTO's EBM Help List <ebm...@list.octogroup.org>, Martina Hervat <martina...@np-brijuni.hr>
Earlier this year, we asked for examples of the application of 3D printing to marine conservation. We sent out the initial compilation of responses on July 31 (see those responses lower in this email) and received a number of really great additional responses after that. The additional responses are immediately below. Thank you to all who responded – we love seeing the innovative ways this technology is being utilized for marine conservation!
Best wishes,
Sarah
ADDITIONAL RESPONSES
One more here that has been very successful https://www.livingseawalls.com.au/
Run out of https://sims.org.au/
This may not be helpful, but American Bureau of Shipping is really involved with providing technical guidance for additive manufacturing for the maritime industry:
https://news.cision.com/american-bureau-of-shipping/?q=additive%20manufacturing
ABS also published additive manufacturing requirements for the maritime industry.
This is for on a vessel as opposed to in the water though.
We are using 3D printers on both big and small scale for the development of structures for shellfish restoration; surface volume shape etc. are being prototyped. In a more general sense, we are working on a 'cook-book' for biomimicry based ecosystem restoration where we seek to compile recipes which combine functional traits together with preferred material per species. All of this we do in close cooperation with the Royal NIOZ and Univesity Utrecht (Tjisse van der Heide and Ralph Temmink)
We are Reef Aquaculture Conservancy, an NGO working in partnership with some international institutions to develop blue carbon-related projects in the Mesoamerican Reef System and currently expanding activities in Southeast Asia.
For the last few years, we have been developing a biomaterial called AragoReef, which has been applied to coral propagation projects. This year we started working 3D printing technology using AragoReef, and we are doing innovations to apply 3D printing in other marine sustainable projects.
Currently, we have a strong collaboration with the National Fisheries Institute of Mexico (INAPESCA) with Dr. Claudia Padilla (CC in this email). As one of the results of this collaboration, we developed an AragoReef structure for herbivorous crab aquaculture, so we are expanding the plausible uses of AragoReef with 3D printing technology.
Since last year we have had the support of the Net Zero Research Fund from the Climate Change Center of Excellence Scotiabank Canada. With this fund, we are developing the Blue Ocean Credits Program (BOCP), related to blue carbon capture projects in marine protected areas.
One of the objectives of the BOCP is to develop a 3D printer to build structures up to 1m3 with AragoReef, and we are very open to explore other uses for 3D printing related to marine conservation and blue carbon economy.
I saw that you were looking for examples of 3D-printing applications to marine conservation that had not focus on coral reef restoration. We, at WWF-DK, are testing how 3D printed reefs can help biodiversity and here in particular Atlantic cod, in the Kattegat. The same 3D reef modules were used by WWF-NL for introducing European oysters. Both reef projects highlight the importance of restoring reefs as part of restoring the wild ecosystem of the North Sea, species, habitats and ecological processes.
WWF-DK project: https://orsted.com/en/media/newsroom/news/2022/06/13654370
WWF NL project: https://www.wwf.nl/wat-we-doen/resultaten/projecten/noordzee-herstellen/schelpdierriffen
I saw your request for 3D printing examples. In the Netherlands we deployed 3D printed sandstone reefstructures in the Dutch North Sea for oyster reef restoration, for habitat and biodiversity restoration and protection of developing reefs; also deploying 3d reefs with of oyster spat through ‘spat on reef’.
Enrico Dini (of Dini Engineering in Italy), Alex Goad (Reef Design Lab based in Australia), and myself (while still working with WWF NL at the time) developed 3D printed reefstructures of mostly sand, trying to avoid concrete or other harmful substances and ready to deploy without divers as you can see in the videos. ARK Natuurontwikkeling and WWF deployed the reefs and ARK is now still working with the reefs in Voordelta and Borkumse Stenen locations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH_eJrUmWmM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCHGvWReWU0
And WWF Denmark recently deployed the WWF NL and ARK reefs in Denmark.
William Boarman https://hardshelllabs.com/team/william-boarman-ph-d and his group are printing tortoise shells to explore corvid predation and other behaviours.
From: sa...@octogroup.org <sa...@octogroup.org>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2023 6:22 PM
To: sa...@octogroup.org
Cc: 'OCTO's EBM Help List' <ebm...@list.octogroup.org>; 'Martina Hervat' <martina...@np-brijuni.hr>
Subject: RESPONSES: 3D printing for marine conservation
Dear EBM Help community,
EBM Help member Martina Hervat from Brijuni National Park in Croatia recently asked for examples of the application of 3D printing to marine conservation. We received some really fascinating responses which are compiled below. And if you know of other applications, please send them along, and we’ll update this list. And thank you to all who have already shared your experiences!
All the best,
Sarah
RESPONSES
Regarding your inquiry on 3D printing.
NOAA West Coast Deep-Sea Coral Initiative 2018-2021: Final Report See section 5.3 (page 60) mentions 3D printing of coral models for educational purposes.
Additional website - here
Dr. Stephanie Green (cc'd) and I co-developed a method to create realistic artificial aquatic habitats (not limited to corals) that integrates 3D printing into its method, with the designed use to test habitat selection cues to biogenic habitats. Here is the open access paper and a media article the University of Alberta released last year summarizing the method.
The actual modules we deployed in our field experiment (paper in press) were made out of concrete. We were able to leverage the benefits of 3D printing (somewhat accessible and ability to highly replicate fine scale morphological features) in the study without directly deploying the 3D printed modules.
Please note the application section towards the end of the paper which expands on potential ideas in which this method could be used beyond aquatic restoration.
Happy to chat further if either of you have questions and hope this helps!
I’m a PhD student studying the bioacoustics of ichthyofauna. We utilize 3D printing for a lot of our technology fittings inside marine recording monitors (more commonly known as PAM systems) from the organization of wires of marine recorders, especially for our more novel marine recording implementations. It’s quick and easy to test out different designs and deploy. I’ve made a few gopro adapters for a marine ROV. Maybe not solely marine, but I’ve also utilized it in teams that build adapters for water quality assessment drones for estuaries and coastal systems. An additional usage is for making coverings and organizers for the package of sensitive equipment for air travel. An example is a hydrophone covering for OceanInstruments ST500 recorders for a pelican travel case.
They’re great for testing designs out before getting things machined. I hope this was helpful!
My lab group has recently developed a 3D-printed device that holds filters to passively collect environmental DNA from aquatic environments. The devices are designed to be aligned with currents and also collect sediment (2-5g) for sequencing. Our goal is for this to be a citizen-scientist friendly device (it's <$5 to print) that can be deployed anywhere in the world, in marine and freshwater environments, for biodiversity monitoring. We are in the process of piloting the device in the field and writing up a pre-print for manuscript submission. In the meantime, I've attached a poster that two of my students presented at the American Fisheries Society Alaska Chapter Conference in March of this year. Happy to provide more information if you'd like.
[Note: If you are interested in getting a copy of the poster Novel Passive eDNA Devices to Enable Cost-Effective Aquatic Biodiversity Monitoring, please contact Sarah at sa...@octogroup.org.]
This is a short message to let you know we (Oceana) used 3D-printed shark fins based on real-life models to train government officials in shark species identification.
I help lead Natrx (www.natrx.io), a NC company bringing new tools and technologies to coastal resilience and restoration.
One of our core technologies is a patented process we call Dry Forming, which is a type of 3D printing. It enables us to digitally design habitat-specific, naturalistic looking structures we call ExoForms, then produce them at large scale.
We can modify the designs to accomplish various objectives like wave energy dissipation, sediment accretion, habitat restoration, etc. Projects are often multi-purpose - reducing erosion, protecting assets, incorporating habitat and biodiversity features.
Much of our work to date is in the southeastern U.S., from the Chesapeake Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. We're rapidly expanding that footprint though as the technology is broadly applicable to marine environments and nature-based solutions.
I've attached some additional materials and here's a link to a PBS NC segment on an artificial fisheries reef project we did last year in the Pamlico River of coastal NC. It provides a little more detail on the Dry Forming process.
Please let me know if you're interested in learning more - we'd welcome the opportunity to understand your challenges and share more of the Natrx story.
Here are some links to short videos about the RecifLab program for ecological restoration in the Côte Agathoise Marine Protected Area, using 3D-printed artificial reefs (made of concrete) (sorry, most of them are in french but you can see the different 3D printed AR)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRAkHkQXWtM
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8cip6r
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=724421484749006
some photos :
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=623602816480266&set=a.472866938220522
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=500344378806111&set=a.472866951553854
https://dis-leur.fr/inedit-agde-capitale-du-tourisme-et-des-recifs-artificiels/
for more technical infos on this program, you can directly contact the MPA team on my behalf : conta...@ville-agde.fr
From: sa...@octogroup.org <sa...@octogroup.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2023 11:08 AM
To: sa...@octogroup.org
Cc: 'OCTO's EBM Help List' <ebm...@list.octogroup.org>; 'Martina Hervat' <martina...@np-brijuni.hr>
Subject: 3D printing for marine conservation
Dear EBM Help community,
EBM Help member Martina Hervat from Brijuni National Park in Croatia is looking for examples of the application of 3D printing to marine conservation (aside from artificial reef printing for coral reef restoration). If you know of anything, could you please let her know at martina...@np-brijuni.hr and cc me at sa...@octogroup.org. An intriguing question!
All the best,
Sarah
From: Martina Hervat <martina...@np-brijuni.hr>
To: sa...@octogroup.org
Subject: 3D printing for marine conservation
Dear Sarah,
Thank you for the amazing work you've been doing through the OCTO group.
I am curious if there are examples of the application of 3D printing in marine conservation. I guess there could be more examples than just coral reef restoration through artificial reef printing. Could you kindly check up with the community?
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Best regards from Brijuni National Park, Croatia
Martina
Martina Hervat
Viša stručna savjetnica za zaštitu prirode/Senior expert adviser for nature protection
Brijuni, 52100 Pula, Croatia
T: +385 52 525 817 | M: +385 98 9095607
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