{"id":19479,"date":"2025-12-12T14:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/?p=19479"},"modified":"2025-12-12T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:08:10","slug":"marine-science-professor-helps-track-shifting-seaweed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/blog\/marine-science-professor-helps-track-shifting-seaweed\/","title":{"rendered":"Eckerd College marine science professor helps track shifting seaweed that could alter ecosystems in Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extraa-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”19473″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”None” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]Sea Education Association\u2019s sailing vessels have continuously conducted oceanographic research for decades, including sampling<\/em> Sargassum with daily net tows.<\/em> Photos courtesy of Chris Nolan<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” el_class=”news_subhead” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]Since the days of Christopher Columbus, the two-million-square-mile Sargasso Sea<\/a> in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean has been known for large concentrations of giant floating mats of Sargassum<\/em> seaweed. \u201cThere are mentions of it in his ship\u2019s logs,\u201d says Amy Siuda, Ph.D.<\/a>, professor of marine science<\/a> at Eckerd College. \u201cBut since 2011, Sargassum<\/em> has been inundating the Caribbean and parts of the Gulf of Mexico, while concentrations in the Sargasso Sea are dropping. That\u2019s a major concern.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]A brown macroalgae, Sargassum<\/em> is described as the rainforest of the sea, Siuda explains. \u201cIt\u2019s an oasis in the middle of the open ocean. Turtles and crabs use Sargassum<\/em> mats as a place to stay safe, mahi-mahi and tuna feed beneath, and seabirds rest on them. The observed decline might upend and change the ecosystem in the Sargasso Sea. Sargassum<\/em> inundations are clearly changing the ecosystem in the Caribbean, covering the coral reefs, blocking sunlight and decaying on beaches.\u201d<\/p>\n

To understand how and why the shift is taking place, a team of researchers from University of South Florida\u2019s College of Marine Science<\/a> led by Professor of Oceanography Chuanmin Hu<\/a>, Ph.D., Jeff Schell<\/a>, Ph.D., and Deb Goodwin<\/a>, Ph.D., from Sea Education Association<\/a>, along with Siuda from Eckerd College (formerly at Sea Education Association), combined satellite imagery with decades of field observations to investigate this complex ocean phenomenon.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”64″ bottom_padding=”48″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” 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border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]Their research, titled\u00a0\u00a0\u201cDramatic decline of Sargassum<\/em> in the north Sargasso Sea since 2015,<\/a>\u201d was published recently in Nature Geoscience<\/a><\/em>, a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers all aspects of the earth sciences. The report states that in 2011 \u201cthe Sargassum<\/em> footprint expanded to include the Great Atlantic Sargassum<\/em> Belt in the tropical Atlantic, but little is known about how Sargassum<\/em> in the Sargasso Sea changed thereafter. Here we use remote sensing and shipboard data to show that Sargassum<\/em> biomass in the north Sargasso Sea has decreased markedly over the past 10 years due to changes in ocean temperature regimes, specifically in the Gulf of Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n

Siuda has been observing Sargassum<\/em> in the Atlantic since 1995. She explains that colleagues at USF named this new abundance in the tropical Atlantic region the Great Atlantic Sargassum<\/em> Belt (GASB). 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What triggered the GASB, Siuda says, remains unclear. \u201cThere are multiple hypotheses suggesting temperature and nutrients are fueling the growth in the tropical region. There is still so much we don\u2019t know.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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