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Sargassum and Oil Spills Monitoring Pilot Project for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions Workshop, México D.F., México 2 – 4 May, 2018.
(UNESCO, Paris, France, 2018)
In recent years, the Caribbean region has faced challenges from oil spills and an influx of floating sargassum seaweed. Large-scale oil spill incidents have included an April 2017 spill at Pointe-à-Pierre, Trinidad and ...
Predicting Sargassum blooms in the Caribbean Sea from MODIS observations.
(2017)
Recurrent and significant Sargassum beaching events in the Caribbean Sea (CS) have caused
serious environmental and economic problems, calling for a long-term prediction capacity of Sargassum
blooms. Here we present ...
Video monitoring framework in support of sargassum management,
(2019)
The waters off Caribbean islands have seen large amounts of Sargassum seaweed during the last
years (Wang and Hu, 2016). This record-breaking events of algae blooms and mass stranding started
in earnest in 2011, then ...
ERISNet: deep neural network for Sargassum detection along the coastline of the Mexican Caribbean.
(2019)
Recently, Caribbean coasts have experienced atypical massive arrivals of pelagic
Sargassum with negative consequences both ecologically and economically. Based
on deep learning techniques, this study proposes a novel ...
Golden Tides: Management Best Practices for Influxes of Sargassum in the Caribbean with a Focus on Clean-up.
(Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES), The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, 2016)
The purpose of this management brief is to enable government officials, coastal managers,
beach caretakers and coastal residents to get ahead of the “golden tides” by providing up-to-date
information on the recent ...
Sargassum: a Resource Guide for the Caribbean.
(Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism (CAST) and Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association, Coral Gables, FL, 2015)
The Guide is intended to serveas an initial resourcefor the Caribbean, in particular to inform the tourism industry, local governments, environmental groups and residents about Sargassum seaweed, its impact and ...
Best practices for Caribbean Fishers coping with Sargassum.
(Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES), The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Cave Hill, Barbados, 2019)
What is Sargassum?
Assessment of control methods for the invasive seaweed Sargassum horneri in California, USA.
(2017)
Determining the feasibility of controlling marine invasive algae through removal is critical to developing a strategy to manage their spread and impact. To inform control strategies, we investigated the efficacy and ...