Posts for tag "seaweed"
Monitoring Water Quality and Seaweed to Protect the Nantucket Sound
Nicole Corbett has spent her life surrounded by water. From summers with her grandparents in Cape Cod to her home near the Nantucket Sound, she has always been near the ocean. Both of her parents worked in...
- Posted April 1, 2026
Surfers, Fishers, and Scientists Launch Portugal’s First Regenerative Seaweed Farm
In 2011, João Macedo became the first Portuguese and European surfer to qualify for the World Surf League’s Big Wave Championship Tour. Over the next decade, he racked up podium finishes, and in 2022, he caught the...
- Posted March 2, 2026
Sargassum Surge: How Seaweed is Transforming our Oceans and Coastal Ecosystems
Until recently, Sargassum–a free-floating seaweed–was distributed throughout the Sargasso Sea, the north Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico. But in the space of a decade, this seaweed has, as one scientist remarks, “Gone from a nonfactor...
- Posted March 24, 2025
