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” and “The Wild Dolphin Project (2002)”.

Cassie Rusche spends her summers living on a boat in the Bahamas studying wild dolphins. But 10 years ago, she thought she’d be working as a pharmacist. She started University as a pre-pharmacy student. However, after just a few short months of school and working in a pharmacy, she realized it was not for her. Eventually she discovered her real passion for understanding animal behavior. So, she switched to the ecology/evolution/organismal biology concentration and has been working for the Wild Dolphin Project since her graduation.

Wild Dolphin Project is the world’s longest running underwater study of dolphins in the world. Since 1985, the team has spent months out at sea every summer, living on boats and studying two species of dolphins that live on the shallow sandbanks of the Bahamas: Atlantic spotted dolphins and Atlantic bottlenose dolphins. Researchers have made many discoveries over the years regarding aspects of social structure, paternity, habitat use, behavior, communication, and movement patterns.

Listen to the episode to hear about:

• Introduction (2:39)
• What sargassum is to Dr. Denise and Cassie (4:59)
• How dolphins use sargassum (5:51)
• How dependent dolphins are on sargassum (8:45)
• Do dolphins use sargassum to clean themselves (10:15)
• Do the hydroids in sargassum cause irritation to dolphins like they do to humans (11:28)
• Studying dolphins in the wild vs captivity (12:15)
• Challenges of studying dolphins in the wild (15:11)
• Are dolphins bothered by the drones used to conduct observation and research (18:04)
• Time span and experiences on research trips (19:42)
• Dolphin behavior (22:04)
• Reproductive activity (27:10)
• Most memorable moments in the field (30:28)
• Debrief (36:22)

Transcript

Learn more about Dr. Denise Herzing and Cassie Rusche:
֍ Scientific Papers

֍ Wild Dolphin Project

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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 AOML’s component of NOAA’s Global Drifter Program (GDP), he oversees a global array of ~1300 satellite-tracked drifting buoys. He also helped design ocean currents displays in the Sant Ocean Hall of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

Listen to the episode to hear about:

• Introduction (3:44)
• What sargassum is to Dr. Rick Lumpkin (5:26)
• How the sargassum belt was established (8:12)
• Nutrients fueling sargassum blooms (12:32)
• Upwelling in the equatorial Atlantic (15:15)
• Explanation of methods and data used (16:56)
• Seasonality of sargassum influx (24:14)
• Permanence of the tropical Atlantic sargassum belt (26:55)
• Predictions of climate change (29:36)
• Possibility of a current that can remove sargassum (32:32)
• Debrief (36:54)

Transcript

Learn more about Dr. Rick Lumpkin:

֍ Graphics from Johns et al. (2020)

֍ NOAA’s Global Drifter Program

֍ Rick Lumpkin, PhD, Acting Director, Physical Oceanography Division

֍ AOML’s experimental Sargassum inundation reports

֍ LinkedIn

֍ Facebook

֍ Twitter

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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.

Emely Hernandez is a master’s student in Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences at Northern Illinois University who researches how tourism impacts water quality in Quintana Roo Mexico. She also does some work in the field of environmental sustainability and is an advocate for advancing minorities in STEM.

Listen to the episode to hear about:

• Introduction (5:44)
• What sargassum is to Courtney and Emely (7:15)
• How tourists in Quintana Roo react to sargassum (10:04)
• What cenotes are (12:24)
• Anthropogenic impacts on the cenotes (16:35)
• Contaminates in groundwater (19:25)
• Tourism and water quality in the cenotes (22:45)
• Tourism’s vs sargassum’s contamination effects (27:12)
• Suggestions to reduce tourism’s effect on groundwater quality (29:50)
• Women and minorities in STEM (33:58)
• Debrief (44:17)

Transcript

Learn more about Courtney and Emely:
֍ Northern Illinois University Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

֍ LinkedIn, Emely Hernandez

֍ Courtney Gallaher, Associate Professor, Ph.D.

֍ Poster on Tourist Perception of Sargassum

֍ Paper on Tourist Perception of Sargassum

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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 sciences sociales) de l’université des Antilles.

Victor David nous présente le projet CESAR dont un des volets est l'étude des enjeux du droit de l'environnement appliqué aux sargasses au niveau du bassin caribéen.

Nous avons abordé avec lui le problème du statut juridique fluctuant de la sargasse. Nous avons également parlé de l’hypothèse du changement global pour la prolifération des sargasses et d’une responsabilité qui pourrait être commune mais différenciée, ainsi que des différences en droit de l’environnement entre la Nouvelle Calédonie, où Victor David a vécu et travaillé, et la Martinique, où il habite depuis 2019.

Mise à jour : cet épisode a été enregistré en juin 2021. Nous y parlions aussi d’un amendement en lecture au Sénat, à propos du statut de catastrophe naturelle. Cet amendement a été adopté le 15 octobre 2021.

- Présentation (0’34)

- La sargasse, un objet d’étude (4’47)

- Personnalité juridique d’un fleuve en Nouvelle-Zélande (6’26)

- Vide juridique autour des sargasses (7’14)

- Les nationalités des sargasses en eaux internationales et eaux territoriales (9’01)

- Protocole de Nagoya (12’50)

- Un non-déchet (13’41)

- Les objectifs du projet ANR CESAR (15’26)

- Qui est responsable ? (20’42)

- Les méthodes de l’enquête (21’49)

- Changement global et sargasses (24’54)

- Une catastrophe naturelle ? (29’42)

- Plans communaux de sauvegarde des communes (31’45)

- Comparaison entre les Antilles et la Nouvelle-Calédonie (33’32)

- Discussion sur les enjeux de cette recherche (38’)

- Debrief (44’52)

Transcription

Pour lire plus sur le sujet :

֍ Projet CESAR

֍ Projets ANR (Agence national de la recherche) sur les sargasses

֍ L’UMR LC2S, Laboratoire caribéen des sciences sociales

֍ L’UMR SENS, Savoirs, Environnement, Sociétés

֍ Victor David sur Research gate

֍ Code de l’environnement français sur le site de Légifrance

֍ Pour contacter Victor DAVID : victor.david@ird.fr

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 episode to hear about:

• Intern introduction (0:39)
• Episode transcripts (0:57)
• Guest introductions (3:11)
• What sargassum is to Ard and Julietta (4:36)
• 2021 sargassum season in Curacao (7:30)
• Sea turtle conservation and sargassum management (9:28)
• Rescuing sea turtles from sargassum (11:53)
• Building a rescue team (15:40)
• Number of turtles that were rescued (17:00)
• What it looks like when a turtle is rescued (18:58)
• What happens after rescue (22:48)
• First aid for the turtles (25:17
• Feeding the turtles in the aquarium (29:30)
• Rescue and COVID (33:32)
• Julietta’s media presence (35:26)
• Sea Turtle Conservation Curacao (40:39)
• Nature Connecting NGO (44:34)
• What’s next for Julietta (47:32)
• Debrief (51:17)

Transcript

Learn more about Ard and Julietta:
֍ Facebook

֍ Instagram

֍ LinkedIn

֍ Website

֍ News Article

֍ Media Appearance

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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... Donation are being collected through Oct 31st.  All donations that come in through this page will go directly to feeding  and helping the victims of the fire. We are one world and one people  and our brothers and sisters need your help.

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, Florida and former Professor and Chief Scientist at Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She is a marine ecologist and biological oceanographer whose research interests span marine plankton ecology from organismal to population and community levels.

Lindsay and Amy just published a paper on the motile animals found on different types of pelagic Sargassum.

Listen to the episode to hear about:

• Introductions (3:08)
• What sargassum is to Amy and Lindsay (4:28)
• Animals in sargassum (7:50)
• Collection and analysis methods (13:42)
• Sample sizes (17:11)
• Sargassum morphotypes and the habitats they create (21:18)
• Herbivores and sargassum consumption (34:31)
• Changes in the tropical Atlantic and effects on the food web (38:14)
• Sargassum samples from different locations (44:44)
• Sea Education Association experiences (47:10)
• Debrief (51:50)

Episode Transcript

Learn more about Lindsay Martin:
֍ LinkedIn

֍ ResearchGate

Learn more about Amy Siuda:

֍ Faculty Page

֍ LinkedIn

֍ ResearchGate

֍ Sargassum Research

֍ Scientific Paper

֍ Sea Education Association

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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 question of how metabolic products in body fluids can provide information about the course of diseases and the success of therapies. Her interest in algae research started in 2005 studying the metabolism of H2 producing algae.

John Roles is a research fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland, Australia. Together with Professor Ben Hankamer he researches the economic potential of algae generated products. He has over 35 years of experience in the design and construction of energy projects including power generation and renewable fuels. His PhD was directed at the generation of the TELCA platform for economic and environmental assessment of renewable fuel production.

Professor Ben Hankamer is from the University of Queensland. He is the group leader of Bioinspired design of solar biotechnology systems lab group and the Director of the Centre for Solar Biotechnology, as well as the founding director of the Solar Biofuels Consortium. The Centre for Solar Biotechnology focuses on developing next generation microalgae systems tapping into the huge energy resource of the sun capturing CO2 to produce a wide range of products.

Listen to the episode to hear about:

• Introduction (2:35)
• What sargassum is to Ute and John (5:05)
• How Ute and John began working with sargassum (8:29)
• Solar biotech (14:20)
• Making crude oil (16:46)
• Using sargassum vs land-based algae (18:37)
• Biotech locations (22:41)
• Base case scenario and number estimates of operation (26:07)
• Future plans and turning theory into reality (38:07)
• Additional comments from Ute and John (43:19)
• Debrief (45:45)

Episode Transcript

Learn more about Ute Marx and John Roles:
֍  Bioinspired Design of Solar Biotechnology Systems Lab Group

֍  Professor Ben Hankamer

֍ Sargassum blooms in the Atlantic Ocean- From a burden to an asset

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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 embraces the three perspectives of engineering, ecosystem services, and governance, as well as sargassum in West Africa. He is a member of the Expert Group of High-Level Panel for Sustainable Ocean Economy, who provide advice to the High-Level Panel of 13 Heads of Governments.

Listen to the episode to hear about:

• Introduction (3:10)
• What sargassum is to Professor Kwasi (4:10)
• Sargassum in Ghana (5:42)
• Health impacts of the sargassum in Ghana (9:46)
• SARTRAC (10:45)
• Professor Kwasi’s role in SARTRAC (13:46)
• Why a Sargassum Network is needed (16:50)
• Setting up a Sargassum Network (22:09)
• Climate change in Ghana (24:50)
• Projects to mitigate the effects of climate change in Ghana (29:16)
• Debrief (34:10)

Episode transcript

Learn more about Professor Kwasi Appeaning Addo:

֍ University of Ghana, Department of Marine and Fisheries Sciences

֍ Proposal To Set Up the Gulf of Guinea Sargassum Network (GGSN)

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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 received her Ph.D. in Biology from UCLA and is currently serving as a California Sea Grant State Fellow.   

֍ You can find more information about Dr. Ryznar's work here: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-ryznar-ph-d-aa47b349/
https://caseagrant.ucsd.edu/profile/emily-ryznar
https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/eeb-fonglab/current-graduate-students/
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2745.13509  

Lauren Smith
Lauren is a Ph.D. candidate at UCLA in Dr. Peggy Fong's lab. She is researching invasive Sargassum horneri in Southern California.  

֍ You can find out more about Lauren’s work here: 

https://dornsife-blogs.usc.edu/wrigley/?p=2219
https://smbasblog.com/2020/11/10/seaweed-faceoff-devil-weed-vs-giant-kelp-zoom-evening-meeting-reminder-tuesday-10-november-730-p-m-3/  

Dr. Lindsay Marks-Orsini  
Lindsay is a marine scientist who studied sargassum for her Ph.D. research. She now works for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife managing invertebrate fisheries.  

֍ You can find out more about Dr. Marks-Orsini’s work here:
https://marine.ucsc.edu/data-products/invasive-species/
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8rh799jz https://caseagrant.ucsd.edu/blogs/lindsay-marks-making-connections https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/news/feb18/underwater-landscaping-foster-scholar-lindsay-marks-removes-invasive-seaweed.html  

Sarah Mastroni
Sarah is a graduate student in UCSC's Coastal Science and Policy program where she is working to incorporate algae in cows' diets to decrease their methane emissions.  

֍ To find out more:
https://www.blueoceanbarns.com/   

֍ Listen to the episode to hear about:  

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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 products abroad. Within SeaExpert, Henrique is also responsible for managing several fisheries observer programmes for the Portuguese fleet operating throughout the world, for monitoring and scientific purposes.  Henrique also works independently as a sustainability consultant for Green Destinations and SustainAzores. As an active member of No More Plastics for the Azores, he raises awareness of the increasing problem of marine debris, particularly plastics’ destructive effects on marine life and ecosystems.

Listen to the episode to hear about:

• Introduction (2:20)
• Climate change in the Azores (4:06)
• SeaFields (6:37)
• What sargassum means to Henrique (7:18)
• What the Azores are and where they are located (9:42)
• Sargassum in the Azores (12:33)
• Seaweed production (17:16)
• Species of algae used for harvesting (23:20)
• Promotion of algae products and sustainability models (28:26)
• Aquaculture (32:30)
• Debrief (57:59)

Transcript

Learn more about Henrique Ramos and SeaExpert:

֍ Website

֍ LinkedIn

֍ YouTube

֍ Facebook

֍ Instagram

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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 des biens ou de l'argent pour les personnes touchées. Nous avons indiqué ci-dessous comment envoyer des fonds à la Fédération de Marc. Chaque petite chose compte.

Marc-Edouin Juste est un entrepreneur social et le président fondateur de la Fédération Haitienne de la Peche Sportive en Mer. Il habite en port-au-prince.

- La paypal de Federation Haitienne de la Peche Sportive en mer: https://paypal.me/fhpsmhaiti?locale.x=fr_XC

-faire un don par l'intermédiaire d'un ami de Marc en France, y compris une réduction d'impôt de 75

https://paypal.me/pools/c/8C930yXH7m

• Donation sur le compte bancaire de Marc Eduin

No: 160-2015-17029970

Banque : Unibank

Nombre : Marc-Edouin Juste

Tel: 509 3658-4910

Email: fhps.mhaiti@gmail.com

Adresse: 14 bis,fraternity street,Delmas 33,Port-au-Prince,Haïti.

Pour les transferts vers western union, money gram et cam transfer, veuillez prendre contact avec Marc pour organiser.Tel: 509 3658-4910 Email: fhps.mhaiti@gmail.com

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 Solar Head of State, which works with governments to push action on renewable energy. The NGO has focused on small island developing states (SIDS) with solar installations on the Office of the Prime Minister of Jamaica, Government House in Saint Lucia and the Presidential Palace of the Maldives. SHOS is now working with the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States and the Pacific Island Development Forum to install solar on the official residences across these organizations’ combined 24 member states. James has a master’s degree in “Island Studies” from the University of the Highlands and Islands and is a true expert on sustainability on islands.

Listen to the episode to hear about:

- Introduction of our summer intern Eloise (0:50)

- How Franziska got involved with Island Innovation (2:17)

- Introduction of James Ellsmoor (3:40)

- What sargassum means to James (5:14)

- What an island is and what it means to be an islander (7:35)

- Common challenges of island life (8:33)

- How islands drive innovation (9:25)

- Advantages of island life (12:18)

- Political implications of being an island community (16:56)

- Viewing sargassum as an opportunity (23:08)

- What Island Innovation is (25.38)

- Getting involved (26:36)

- Community discussions around sargassum (28:30)

- Island Innovation Summit (30:36)

- Debrief (33:51)

Episode Transcript

Learn more about James Ellsmoor and Island Innovation:

֍ Website

֍ YouTube

֍ LinkedIn

֍ Facebook

֍ Twitter

֍ Instagram

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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 shoreline department of the city of South Padre Island and as  Sargassum Early Advisory System Project Manager at Texas A&M  University.Together they have developed a hay bale-style collection  method to bale Sargassum and use it as natural dune-building support.

- Intros (2:15)

- What is Sargassum to Brandon and Tom? (3:30)

- Captain Robert Webster’s work Part I (4:30)

- Historical accounts of Sargassum in Galveston Newspaper 1842 to 2018 (5:08)

- Project was ready to get rolling and there has not been any Sargassum since 2018! (5:50)

- Doing science under the veil of tourism (6:10)

- Finding out that Sargassum travelled through the Mona channel (8:00)

- Discovery of Sargassum’s cyclical history (13:00)

- Confederate soldiers hiding in Sargassum from the Union troops (14:10)

-  Post-Depression Era ‘New Deal’ Sargassum out to sea (15:08)

- Sargassum has always been a part of Texas (16:40)

- What is the Sargassum Early Advisory System (18:25)

- All about MacGyver Science! No fancy equipment (20:15)

- How they were using the LandSAT  Data (20:42)

- Sargassum grows well in nutrient-rich waters (22:36)

- There is a wide-spread benefit/need for this system (23:05)

- Captain Robert Webster’s work Part II (24:35)

- Bailing Sargassum for dune restoration (26:00)

- In Texas you were not allowed to remove Sargassum from the beach (32:16)

- The idea of baling Sargassum (34:35)

- Towns people were divided on Sargassum (37:10)

- Using fresh or dry Sargassum and why fresh is better (39:10)

- Physical and chemical properties of Sargassum (43:15)

- From hip deep Sargassum in 2018 to none at all after (45:50)

- Can bales be used for anything else than dune restoration ?(47:50)

- Concept of the Sargassum baling system (51:40)

- Working with local organizations such as the City of Galveston and the Park board (52:02)

- Sargassum as a carbon sink & what will the effects be (56:26)

- What can Sargassum as an ecosystem teach us(59:50)

- Interactive beach walks & the bucket brigade! (65:00)

- Sargassum is part of the beach (66:30)

Transcript

֍ Texas A&M-Galveston Researchers Tackling Stinky Seaweed Problem

֍ Innovative Technology Seaweed Prototype
Dunes Demonstration Project

֍ Coastal sand dunes and dune vegetation: Restoration, erosion, and storm protection

֍ Sargassum Early Advisory System

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