Patagonia Seaweeds is founded
The company is set up to provide seaweed farming, research and consulting services.
More than a decade in the water
Hatchery for an industrial program
Seed production, environmental monitoring and installation of giant kelp farm systems.
FIC Seaweed Project
Pilot giant kelp hatchery and farm with training for small scale fishers, funded by the regional government.
Solar drying of seaweed
Solar dryer prototype to produce seaweed meal, supported by Corfo.
ARPA-E MARINER
Principal investigator in a U.S. Department of Energy program on large scale macroalgae farming.
Open ocean farming
Farm system design and support for site license applications in the North Atlantic.
Protocols and proposals
Protocols for extracting and shipping Macrocystis sori, and a technical hatchery and farming proposal for a Red Sea pilot.
Ongoing R&D advisory
Research and development services for Ocean Rainforest, an open ocean seaweed farming company.
Giant kelp hatchery and farming
Field advisory for Cascadia Seaweed on hatchery and farming best practices.
Offshore giant kelp farming
Leading an offshore Macrocystis pyrifera farming project in California, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy with US$ 9 million.
Pilot processing plant
Installation of a pilot plant for seaweed extraction and processing.
Publications
- 2026Optimization of the Sequential Extraction Process of Compounds for the Integral Valorization of Macrocystis pyrifera
Silva, F. C. O., et al., incl. Infante Rosselot, J. ACS Omega 11: 40402.
- 2024Life-cycle analysis of offshore macroalgae production systems in the United States
Kwon, H., Hawkins, T. R., Zaimes, G. G., Infante, J., et al. Algal Research 82: 103654.
- 2022A Macroalgal Cultivation Modeling System (MACMODS): Evaluating the Role of Physical-Biological Coupling on Nutrients and Farm Yield
Frieder, C. A., et al. Frontiers in Marine Science.
- 2020Technical challenges for offshore cultivation of kelp species: lessons learned and future directions
Bak, U. G., Gregersen, O. & Infante, J. Botanica Marina.
- 2019Revisiting the economic profitability of giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera (Ochrophyta) cultivation in Chile
Camus, C., Infante, J. & Buschmann, A. H. Aquaculture 502.
- 2018Overview of 3 year precommercial seafarming of Macrocystis pyrifera along the Chilean coast
Camus, C., Infante, J. & Buschmann, A. H. Reviews in Aquaculture.
- 2017Seaweed production: overview of the global state of exploitation, farming and emerging research activity
Buschmann, A. H., Camus, C., Infante, J., et al. European Journal of Phycology.
- 2014The status of kelp exploitation and marine agronomy, with emphasis on Macrocystis pyrifera, in Chile
Buschmann, A. H., Prescott, S., Potin, P., Faugeron, S., Vásquez, J. A., Camus, C., Infante, J., et al. Advances in Botanical Research 71: 161.
Javier Infante Rosselot
Founder and general managerAquaculture engineer with an MBA and more than twenty years in marine aquaculture, applied research and commercial development across Chile, the United States, Mexico, Australia, Scotland and the Faroe Islands, among other countries.
He has led large scale open water seaweed farming operations and multidisciplinary hatchery, farming and laboratory teams. He has directed publicly funded research programs in Chile and abroad, from proposal through budget management and reporting, bringing together biology, farm system engineering and technical and economic evaluation.
He has represented companies and consortia before regulators, funding agencies, investors, academia and industry, and has turned research results into working farm systems and peer reviewed publications.
PADI dive instructor and Chilean Maritime Authority specialist diver.
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