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Paul Sean Hill, League City, TX resident, author and former Space Shuttle and International Space Station Flight Director will be the keynote speaker for the 2018 Aggie Muster ceremony on Saturday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the McCloy Arena (gym) on the campus of Texas A&M University at Galveston.

Forty-five scientists from France, the United States and western Africa held a two day workshop at Texas A&M Galveston to discuss Sargassum (seaweed) and the problems it has created in the past with no warnings of its landings and inundations on the beaches of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico.

We all remember the summer of 2014, when the beaches of the Texas coast filled with Sargassum (seaweed) and when moved back from the beach it was piled higher that the Galveston seawall.

Working with NASA scientist, Texas A&M University at Galveston researchers unveiled today a first-of-its kind app to track seaweed – technically called sargassum — as it approaches the Texas Coast.

Their names are Alicia, Rita and Ike. There’s even one known by the number 1900. These and other hurricanes have killed thousands of people, destroyed scores of buildings and wreaked havoc on Texas and the nation.

For the past several years beachgoers along the upper Texas coast have found their beautiful sandy beaches cluttered with ugly, stinky seaweed. The good news is that Texas A&M University at Galveston researchers who study our beaches and shores are getting help from those who study space.

A healthy Texas coastline is not only important for recreation, fishing and shipping, but it could also be essential in adapting to the threat of climate change.

Researchers to study sequestration (storage) of carbon in tidal wetlands along the Texas coast NASA and the U. S. Department of Agriculture have awarded a three-year, $400,000 carbon cycle science investigation grant to four researchers at Texas A&M University at Galveston.