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Since 2011, vast masses of the free-floating algae Sargassum have been washing ashore on Caribbean beaches – some leaving coastlines three feet deep in seaweed. When it isn't rotting on beaches, Sargassum has incredible properties and could fuel an entire new blue economy. The Sargassum Podcast aims to cure marine science blindness by providing listeners with an in-depth look into how sargassum impacts local communities, coastal biomes, and the world at large – and how we can harvest it to b ...
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En este episodio tenemos a Kevin Gómez y Quira Michel, ambos de 22 años, estudian Biología Marina en la Universidad de Panamá y están investigando el impacto del Sargazo en La Costa Arriba de Colón, una región turística y pesquera de Panamá. Su objetivo es demostrar cómo esta alga puede ser aprovechada de manera beneficiosa, contribuyendo así a la …
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In this episode we speak with Tyann Henry, who has been the Environmental Officer for the Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources in the Turks and Caicos Islands since 2021, having previously held the same position for three years with the Department of Environment and Coastal Resources. During her career, Ms Henry has also worked at the Insti…
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Charmaine Elliot used to work as a consultant/paralegal in many fields over the years until November 2021 when due to Medical Issues she was advised by her doctor to change her lifestyles. In 2012 her partner Kimmit Harvey and her during a lunch break decided to explore and he took her to a place where his grandfather took him as a young boy.That p…
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Christine Jimenez-Mariani est ex-navigatrice, est depuis toujours sensible aux problèmes environnementaux et à la pollution marine. Résidant depuis 2013 sur la Riviera Maya au Mexique, elle a régulièrement les pieds dans les sargasses. En 2015, afin d’obtenir des infos à la source du savoir, elle contacte le Ph. D. Brian Lapointe, depuis plus de 40…
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Join us as we explore the world of recycling and environmental management in the British Virgin Islands with Julie Swartz, managing director of Green & Clean VI, Ltd. Discover how Julie's company is addressing the impact of Sargassum seaweed, from its economic and environmental effects to innovative solutions like using worms for decomposition. Gai…
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In this episode we interview Leslie Hickerson and Fleur Hermanides. Leslie is a St. Maarten native In this episode we interview LeslieHickerson and Fleur Hermanides. Leslie is a St. Maarten native with a degree in sustainable tourism. Leslie's journey began as a volunteer with the Nature Foundation, tagging sea turtles and sharks and leading educat…
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En este episodio, presentamos a Isaac, un joven científico panameño que, a los 16 años, destacó en la feria científica con su proyecto sobre "Algas marinas contra enfermedades". Y también tenemos la presencia de su mentora Noemí, bióloga y botánica, ganadora del Concurso Our Ocean Panamá 2023, investigadora de algas marinas y líder de proyectos pre…
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In this episode, Gennike Mayers, chief interpreter for Interpreting Your Needs and co-founder of Geli Pedi Ltd, takes us on a journey into the world of Sargassum spa products. From its importance to her, its impact on Tobago and its benefits in cosmetics, Gennike covers key aspects. The discussion includes concerns about heavy metals, its taste, th…
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En este episodio, Omar Vázquez de Ocotlán, Jalisco, comparte detalles sobre su proyecto "Sargablock". Comenzó en 2018 en Puerto Morelos, donde, tras perder su trabajo con 300 empleados recolectando sargazo en las playas, ideó la creación de bloques de construcción a partir de este material. Estos bloques, con un 40- 60% de residuos orgánicos de sar…
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E67 Sargassum podcast avec Sargowaze, un projet d’application participatif de localisation des sargasses
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Un nouvel épisode du podcast en français est publié ! Autour des sargasses se développent applications, méthodologies, recherches, dont le Sargassum podcast essaye de rendre compte ici, au fil des rencontres.Aujourd’hui, nous vous présentons un épisode enregistré il y a plus d’un an (en avril 2022) mais que nous n’avons pu éditer jusqu’à présent po…
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In this episode, we delve into the current situation of Sargassum and its impact on Curaçao. Our guest, Luisa Flechas, a chemical engineer and business developer at the TNO Energy and Materials Transition Unit, shares her insights and involvement in the TNO Living Lab project, which aims to continue with a proposal to continue working with all the …
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In this episode, Vicky, an aquatic ecologist, and Philip, a marine science researcher, discuss the current situation of Sargassum in Ghana and its impact on people's lives, exploring the impact of Sargassum on both ecosystems and society, and offering their different research perspectives and approaches. 05:40: What is Sargassum for Vicky 06:55 Wha…
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In todays episode: Sabine and Jessica talk about the dynamic of the work in Bonaire, the importance of this area and how Sargassum are affecting its Marine Ecosystems Sabine Engel, raised on Curaçao, studied marine biology in Utrecht. Settled in Bonaire, she researches reefs and restores mangroves with STINAPA and Mangrove Maniacs. Jessica Johnson,…
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Juan y Andrea trabajan en BioPlaster, una compañía de investigación y desarrollo tecnológico que nace para enfrentar la gran cantidad de Sargazo que llega al Mar Caribe. En esta entrevista ellos nos cuentan cómo están utilizando el Sargazo para convertirlo en bioplástico y el proceso que ha llevado con temas de Gestión de esta problemática. 03:00 P…
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Jeff Davis, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, has brought together a team of undergraduates to work on this “grand challenge”. The group of young engineers and biologists traveled to the Dominican Republic to understand the scale of the problem and try to find solutions. Dr. Jeff Davis is Associate Professor School of Electrical and Computer …
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From September 2022-Februrary, 2023, a multidisciplinary team of stakeholders in Montserrat comprised of government and civil society representatives wastrained in the use of unmanned aerial systems (drones) for participatory monitoring and management of Sargassum. In this episode we interviewed Yasa and Lavern. Yasa is the project manager for the …
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In this Episode Judith Raming talked about her work as amarine park manager, she has been working with the sargassum management inSTINAPA, she identifies recent changes this year in the overall managementstrategy. 1:00 Presenting the guest 1:30 What is Sargassum for Judith 2:02 What is STINAPA in Bonaire 3:10 Judith's role with this organization in…
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In this Episode Joseph Montoya and Harshini Vummadi join us to talk about the understanding of the high biomass of Sargassum and their impacts on the open oceans and coastal communities. Also, Harshini explains us her research using Sargassum to purify water. Joseph Montoya is professor in the School of Biological Sciences and director of the Inter…
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Wilson James es de las Islas de la Bahía, Honduras, del municipio de Santos Guardiola de la comunidad de Diamond Rock. Él es científico comunitario de BICA (Bay Island Conservation Association), estudiante de la carrera de ingeniería ambiental. Realiza actividades comunitarias con BICA, por ejemplo: reforestaciones de mangle,datos socioeconómicos, …
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Sigrid Skjelstad has a Masters in materials science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and works as business developer at Orkel AS. During her studies she spent a year at University in Cape Town as an exchange student. Orkel is a developer and manufacturer of agricultural and industrial machinery based in Norway. They recently …
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Rosa Elisa Rodríguez Martínez, nos explica cómo fue que los investigadores de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México comenzaron a estudiar los efectos del sargazo en los ecosistemas costeros. Ha realizado diversos estudios relacionados con la llegada masiva de sargazo pelágico al Caribe mexicano enfocados a entender sus efectos ambientales y a …
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Mark Yokoyama is a naturalist, author and wildlife educator living in St. Martin who has published many books about the nature and culture of St. Martin. He is also the co-founder and treasurer of the non profit association Les Fruits de Mer. Their core mission is to collect and share knowledge about local nature and heritage. They run a museum cal…
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E54: Conociendo la relación del sargazo pelágico y Physalia physalis con Eduardo Gabriel Torres Conde
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Eduardo Gabriel Torres Conde actualmente es un estudiante de Doctorado del posgrado de ciencias biológicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México en el Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología. Se graduó como biólogo en la Universidad de la Habana en Cuba y posteriormente hizo una maestría en Biología Marina y Acuicultura con mención en Ec…
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E53: How Sargassum impacts the communities of Quintana Roo and Florida with Judith Rosellon, Justin Suca and Laura McAdam-Otto
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Judith Rosellon is a biologist and oceanographer with extensive experience in fisheries management and ecology, marine spatial management, evaluation of marine protected areas, and fisheries stock assessment. She has a Ph.D. from the School of Marine Science and Technology (SMAST) at UMass Dartmouth and worked as a Postdoctoral fellow at the Colleg…
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La llegada masiva de Sargazo flotante al Caribe de Centroamérica es un evento relativamente nuevo. Y el papel de las personas de la comunidad es un punto clave para comenzar los inicios del manejo de este fenómeno. Don José es pescador artesanal miembro de la Asociación de Pescadores del Caribe Sur de Costa Rica. Es co-director del proyecto regiona…
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Rolando Chavez Penaherrera is the Latin American General manager for the Enviro-Clean segments of DESMI and Head of DESMI SEAWEED Division.DESMI is Danish manufacturer of pumps, pumping systems, environmental cleaning equipment and related products and services, Founded in 1834 and headquartered in Denmark, DESMI provides pumping solutions to end-m…
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Bethia Thomas is currently a postgraduate student at CERMES pursuing a PhD in Natural Resource Management. Her research seeks to venture into the novel territory of pelagic sargassum with special emphasis on a community-based participatory approach to vulnerability analysis and adaptation planning for pelagic sargassum influxes in the Eastern Carib…
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Sargassum podcast Ep 49: Dr. Geoff Smith and Dr. Betsabe de la Barreda Bautista " SATELLITES, SARGASSUM, AND CARIBBEAN COASTLINES "
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Part of the problem with sargassum’s sudden proliferation is hard to track. Things like weather, currents, and even marine animals can make it challenging to understand where a sargassum beaching will occur and how big it might be when it does. Dr. Geoff Smith and Dr. Betsabe de la Barreda Bautista have a great solution: they’ve created a service t…
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La llegada masiva de Sargazo flotante al Caribe de Centroamérica es un evento relativamente nuevo, es por ello que conocer cómo está la situación actual de este fenómeno es muy importante para responder a ello. Cindy Fernández como investigadora en el área de Ficología, ha comenzado iniciativas para conocer más sobre estas algas en el Caribe de Cos…
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Kim Baldwin is a marine ecologist who uses geospatial tools and information technology to work with people to collaboratively create comprehensive spatial information to strengthen ecosystem-based environmental management in the Caribbean, California & beyond. She is an integral part of Marine Spatial Information Solutions, which provides a range o…
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Début mars 2022, le Sargassum podcast a reçu Madame Lydia Barfleur, coordinatrice du projet Sarg’coop. Docteure en droit international de l’université de la Sorbonne, Lydia Barfleur a étudié et enseigné la régionalisation économique dans la zone des Carai͏̈bes avant de coordonner Sarg’coop. Ce programme de coopération caribéenne sur les sargasses, …
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Dr. Kate Mansfield is a marine scientist, a sea turtle biologist, and an associate professor at the University of Central Florida. Her research focuses on sea turtle biology, ecology, behavior, management, and conservation. Using various census and telemetry methods, Dr. Mansfield’s research interests include sea turtle and other marine vertebrate …
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Sargassum impacts the coastal and seaside communities of many countries, including Tobago. The piles and piles of it on the Atlantic side of the island leave an awful trace of toxins in the air that can be harmful to the population. Yet, where others only see it as a natural disaster, trained natural resource manager and researcher for the governme…
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Sargassum beaching events have become an international challenge that requires globally-cooperative solutions. With such pressing challenges, thankfully, come incredibly innovative solutions to sargassum overproduction and decay. Due to climate change, there is more and more sargassum on shores, which creates trouble for marine ecosystems and coast…
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Since 2011, vast masses of the free-floating algae Sargassum have been washing ashore on Caribbean beaches – some leaving coastlines three-feet deep in seaweed. When it isn't rotting on beaches, Sargassum has incredible properties and could fuel an entire new blue economy. The Sargassum Podcast aims to cure marine science blindness by providing lis…
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Dr. Denise Herzing is the Founder and Research Director of the Wild Dolphin Project and has studied Atlantic spotted dolphins in the Bahamian waters for over 35 years. In addition to many scientific articles, she is the co-editor of Dolphin Communication and Cognition, author of “Dolphin Diaries: My 25 years with Spotted Dolphins in the Bahamas” an…
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Dr. Rick Lumpkin is the Director of the Physical Oceanography Division of the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) research laboratory in Miami, FL: the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML). Dr. Lumpkin’s research focuses on upper ocean processes and ocean circulation. As Principal Investigator of…
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E39: Tourism, Sargassum, and Water Quality in the Cenotes of Quintana Roo Mexico with Courtney Gallaher and Emely Hernandez
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Courtney Gallaher is a jointly appointed associate professor in the Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences and the Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Northern Illinois University. Her fields of studies include Women in science, Sustainable agriculture and food systems and Environmental management and sustainability. E…
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VictorDavid est docteur en droit de l’environnement. Il est chargé de recherche à l’IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement), et en poste actuellement au Campus Agro Environnemental Caraïbe en Martinique. Il est affilié à l’Unité Mixte de recherche SENS (Savoirs Environnement Sociétés) et collabore avec le LC2S (Laboratoire caribéen des sc…
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Ard Vreugdenhill is storyteller and conservationist with Nature Connecting, an NGO. He just finished working in Barbados. Before that, he worked for over five years for Sea Turtle Conservation in Curacao. Julieta Castro is a volunteer for Sea Turtle Conservation in Curacao and is 15 years old, our youngest podcast guest so far. Listen to the episod…
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Bonus episode: Guanaja: After the fire - an interview with Darson Benet aka Drizzle Roadrunna and Ms Mazy
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The Sargassum Podcast's Robby Thigpen interviews Darson Benet aka Drizzle Roadrunna and his mom Ms. Mazy about the fire on Guanaja, their family there and what they are trying to do to help. If you would like to donate to help feed the people of Guanaja, please go to our Guanaja After the Fire Donation page: https://marinefrontiers.org/guanaja-a...…
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Lindsay Martin is an Ocean Policy Specialist at the National Science Foundation (NSF) who is passionate about combining research with education. She has quite literally sailed around the world and is working to make research more equitable and accessible. Amy Siuda is an Associate Professor of Marine Science at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Flo…
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Ute Marx is Professor of Medical Engineering at Pforzheim University, but she has spent some of her research time in Brisbane Australia. Her teaching focuses on the subjects of technical sales and marketing, as well as natural science subjects such as molecular biophysics and metabonomics. Her research activities focus, among other things, on the q…
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Professor Kwasi Appeaning Addo is a coastal processes specialist with vast experience in the West Africa coastal region. He is the Director of the Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies (IESS) in the University of Ghana. Recently he has focused his research on developing an integrated approach to sustainable port development, which embrac…
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Sargassum Podcast Episode 33: A Different Kind of Invasion - Panel on Sargassum horneri in California Our panel of guests today are: Melissa Hanson Melissa is the Co-Founder of Kelpful, a wild harvested seaweed company based in the Central Coast of California. ֍ Learn more about Kelpful here: https://www.kelpful.com/ Dr. Emily Ryznar Emily recently…
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Henrique Ramos is the CEO of SeaExpert, which is a fisheries services and consultancy firm. He developed several aquaculture projects through SeaExpert, as an algae harvesting operation for the cosmetics biotech industry, as well as contributing to the world’s science on animal feed and production, leading to the Azores exporting high quality produ…
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Le samedi 14 août, un tremblement de terre de magnitude 7,2 a frappé Haïti, suivi lundi par la tempête tropicale Grace. Cette catastrophe a fait de nombreux morts, blessés et sans-abri. Nous avons parlé à Marc Edouin Juste de la situation en Haïti et de la façon dont nous et vous pouvez aider. Nous vous invitons à écouter et à envisager de donner d…
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Our guest today is James Ellsmoor, who is the Founder and Director of Island Innovation, which connects rural and island locations around the world working on similar development issues. Island Innovation began with a newsletter and a series of virtual events, and has evolved into a community of over 127,000 members. He is also the co-founder of So…
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Dr. Tom Linton is an emeritus professor at Texas A&M. Tom has studied the impacts of Sargassum on Gulf Coast beaches for decades and was also involved in the development of the predictive model for forecasting Sargassum landings. Brandon Hill is a coastal resources manager for the City of Galveston and has previously worked as director of the shore…
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Dr. Legena Henry is an MIT graduate, and a Mechanical Engineer, who is now the Lecturer for Renewable Energy at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, specializing in Renewable Energy and Applied Mechanics. She researches sustainable energy sources in the Caribbean, such as bio-fuel from Sargassum seaweed, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, an…
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