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Stay up to date with the latest developments in the world of sargassum. This section brings together timely news, event announcements, research highlights, project updates, and stories from communities and organizations responding to sargassum inundations around the globe.

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SARTRAC Scientific Sargassum Series 4

18 July 2022 | Online
July 11, 2022/by Shelly-Ann Cox

SARTRAC Scientific Sargassum Series 3

21 June 2022 | Online
June 19, 2022/by Shelly-Ann Cox

Stakeholder Webinar on Sargassum

21 June 2022 | Online
June 9, 2022/by Shelly-Ann Cox

Satellite Monitoring of Pelagic Sargassum- UN Ocean Decade: A Safe Ocean

6 April 2022 | Online
May 16, 2022/by Shelly-Ann Cox

SARG’COOP Program Webinar – Sargassum Collection and Valorization

7 April 2022 | Online
May 16, 2022/by Shelly-Ann Cox

Sargassum Action Learning Network Launch

7 Dec 2021 | Online
May 16, 2022/by Shelly-Ann Cox

Sargassum Comic Book Launch

4 March 2022 | Online
May 16, 2022/by Shelly-Ann Cox

Webinar on e-shape Water Resources – Sargassum

10 May 2022
May 6, 2022/by Shelly-Ann Cox

Webinar – Sustainability of Sargassum Seaweed Harvesting

28 June - 2 July 2021
May 6, 2022/by Shelly-Ann Cox

Seaweed Around the Clock

2 – 3 June 2022
May 6, 2022/by Shelly-Ann Cox

Pre-announcement: 2nd Joint Call for Projects on Causes of Sargassum Blooms

This call for projects aims to provide pragmatic solutions to the sargassum stranding and enrich the knowledge on this phenomenon that affects more particularly the islands of the Caribbean.
July 26, 2021/by Llillian Diarra

UN Environment Programme White Paper and Briefs Available!

The United Nations Environment Programme has published a white paper and briefs for a variety of audiences on Sargassum. Check them out!
June 21, 2021/by Audrey Hasson

UNEP Webinar 5: The Sargassum Challenge: Opportunities for collaboration between West Africa and the Wider Caribbean Region

10 June 2021 | Online
May 27, 2021/by Audrey Hasson

Challenges and Opportunities in the spread of Sargassum across the tropical Atlantic Ocean

2 June 2021 | Online
May 26, 2021/by Audrey Hasson

Call for contributions for a Special Issue on Sargassum

In this Special Virtual Issue (SVI), we accept manuscripts on biology, taxonomy, ecophysiology, compounds, ecotoxicology and ecology of all Sargassum species.
May 5, 2021/by Audrey Hasson

Publication alert! Monitoring pelagic Sargassum inundation potential for coastal communities

Pelagic Sargassum is a buoyant macroalgae that forms rafts at the ocean surface and serves as a biologically rich habitat for hundreds of diverse marine species. Since 2011, massive blooms of Sargassum have occurred in the tropical Atlantic and swept through the western tropical Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico.
April 15, 2021/by Audrey Hasson

CC4FISH policy brief: March 2021, Issue 3

Since 2011, the unprecedented blooming of pelagic sargassum across the equatorial Atlantic has resulted in mass influxes of the seaweed into the Caribbean, which look set to continue indefinitely.
April 15, 2021/by Audrey Hasson

CARIGEO – Side event on the Caribbean Geospatial development initiative

April 15, 2021/by Audrey Hasson
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