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Sargassum Now World’s Largest Harmful Algal Bloom Due to Nitrogen A photo taken this month shows Sargassum piled up on a beach in Palm Beach County, Florida. (Photo credit: Brian Lapointe, Ph.D.) For centuries, pelagic Sargassum, floating brown seaweed, have grown in low nutrient waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, supported by natural nutrient sources like excretions from fishes and invertebrates, upwelling and nitrogen fixation. Using a unique historical baseline from the 1980s and comparing it to samples collected since 2010, researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s H...

LSU Faculty Receive $9.3M Grant to Investigate Collaborative Ecosystem Design Approaches May 24, 2021 11:00 ET | Source: LSU College of Engineering LSU College of Engineering Baton Rouge, Louisiana, UNITED STATES BATON ROUGE, La., May 24, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sometimes years’ worth of studies and research can turn into a collaboration that will not only help the nation’s military but also coastal land-margin regions around the globe. Such is the case with LSU Civil and Environmental Engineering Professors Scott Hagen and Clint Willson and ...

Breakthrough Leader: Jay Pinckney Posted on: May 11, 2021; Updated on: May 11, 2021 Growing up in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Jay Pinckney spent a lot of time in the outdoors, hunting and fishing with his father. By the time he was in the eighth grade he knew he wanted to be a marine biologist, part of the generation fascinated by Jacques Cousteau’s undersea adventures. But his ties to the sea go back even further; he is the 13 th generation of Pinckneys to grow up in South Carolina. The first Pinckney to settle ...

Scientists put GPS in trash to find out how far it travels Sign In LEA SKENE, The Advocate FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5Dr. Jenna Jambeck of the University of Georgia's college of engineering holds a pollution tracker as she speaks at Shamrock Marine, Saturday, April 10, 2021, in Baton Rouge, La. The press conference detailed information on pollution trackers that will be implemented in the river understand the state of plastic pollution along the Mississippi River. (Hilary Scheinuk/The Advocate via AP)HILARY SCHEINUK/APShow MoreShow Less 2of5Dr. Jenna Jambeck of the University of G...

News Briefs: Ingalls to host christening event for DDG 123 Updated 1:22 PM; Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. The christening of the guided missile destroyer Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123) is set for the evening of April 24 at the Pascagoula shipyard. Among those scheduled to speak are newly-appointed Program Vice President George Nungesser, Prospective Commanding Officer Douglas Brayton, and Pickett Wilson, the ship’s sponsor. DDG 123 is named in honor of Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee, one of the original “Sacred Twenty” -- the term used to describe the first 20 woman who formed the new Navy...