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San Diego EDGE Training Centers to Fill Algae Job Holes
May 19, 2011
AlgaeIndustryMagazine.com
rom Maria Gallucci at SolveClimate, an update that around 100 students are expected to enroll this year in San Diego’s new EDGE (Educating and Developing Workers for the Green Economy) post-graduate training program to build a ready workforce ahead of an anticipated boom in algal biotechnology development.
EDGE, a public-private partnership, offers industrial and technical certificate programs in biofuels and biotech production, analysis and processing. A Masters of Advanced Science will be offered next year through the University of California, San Diego for biotech entrepreneurs.
EDGE’s first certificate course began in March at MiraCosta community college in northern San Diego County, and a second set of students will start classes this summer. Tuition is being waved the first two years as the program is tweaked, and course materials will later be packaged for nationwide distribution.
Algae development alone has created 410 jobs around San Diego since 2007, resulting in $56 million in direct economic activity and $108 million in overall activity per year, according to a recent analysis by the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), a regional planning agency. Algae-related jobs could reach 500 this year and up to 700 next year as developers prepare to launch commercial-scale demonstration projects, Sapphire Energy co-founder Steve Mayfield told SolveClimate News.
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