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But in recent years, large quantities of sargassum have drifted west, forming what researchers call the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt.
The effort combines satellite-based detections of the seaweed with ocean current models to identify.
In June 2018, the 8850-kilometer GASB contained >20 million metric tons of Sargassum biomass. . Satellite images captured in February showed an earlier.
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May 18, 2023 · Since 2011, Sargassum, free-living populations of brown macroalga, have been rapidly expanding in the Sargasso Sea and other parts of the open ocean such as the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt. .
Satellite images captured in February showed an earlier. .
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A team of researchers from the University of South Florida College of Marine Science discovered the largest bloom of algae in the world using NASA satellite observations.
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May 18, 2023 · Since 2011, Sargassum, free-living populations of brown macroalga, have been rapidly expanding in the Sargasso Sea and other parts of the open ocean such as the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, including frequent and unprecedented seaweed accumulation events on beaches.
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But scientists noticed a change in sargassum levels in 2011, when masses of the seaweed multiplied, gaining in density and size, becoming so big they were captured on satellite images.