FAU tells ‘story’ of Atlantic’s sargassum surge using 40 years of data - Scientific Inquirer

FAU tells ‘story’ of Atlantic’s sargassum surge using 40 years of data - Scientific Inquirer

Researchers at Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute have released a landmark review tracing four decades of changes in pelagic sargassum – free-floating brown seaweed that plays a vital role in the Atlantic Ocean ecosystem. Once thought to be primarily confined to the nutrient-poor waters of the Sargasso Sea, sargassum is now recognized as a rapidly growing and widely distributed marine organism, whose expansion ac…