Seaweed

One of the issues with sargassum is that scientists aren’t sure what the exact issue is, but Aggie scientists are hard at work on the pelagic problem.

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.

Researchers at Texas A&M University at Galveston have a use for the hundreds of tons of stinky seaweed that have washed up on the Louisiana - Texas beaches.

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.