{"625599":{"#nid":"625599","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Sargassum is strangling tourism in the Caribbean. Can scientists find a use for it?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn the North Atlantic, there\u0026rsquo;s a region called a floating rain forest because of its incredible biodiversity. Known as the Sargasso Sea, the area takes its name from large mats of brown algae\u0026mdash;\u003Cem\u003ESargassum natans\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESargassum fluitans\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026mdash;that provide shelter, food, and breeding ground for fish, shrimps, birds, turtles, and crabs....\u003Cem\u003ESargassum\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a troublesome addition to new environs....Tourism has suffered....\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ocean.gatech.edu\/people\/dr-joseph-montoya\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022Dr. Joseph Montoya\u0022\u003EJoseph Montoya\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, a biological oceanographer at the Georgia Institute of Technology, collected nutrient data for the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;study. On a cruise out of Barbados in 2018, \u0026ldquo;we saw tremendous amounts of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESargassum\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;all over the area, including in part of the Amazon plume region, where we had never seen\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESargassum\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;before,\u0026rdquo; he says....\u0026ldquo;Tourists don\u0026rsquo;t want to go to beaches that are thigh deep in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESargassum\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026rdquo; he says.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2019-09-04 16:27:52","changed_gmt":"2019-09-04 16:27:52","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"campus trees","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/cen.acs.org\/environment\/sustainability\/Sargassum-strangling-tourism-Caribbean-scientists\/97\/i34","dateline":{"date":"2019-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"623013":{"id":"623013","type":"image","title":"Joseph Montoya","body":null,"created":"1562346895","gmt_created":"2019-07-05 17:14:55","changed":"1657830800","gmt_changed":"2022-07-14 20:33:20","alt":"","file":{"fid":"237255","name":"SargassumInHand-v2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/SargassumInHand-v2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/SargassumInHand-v2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":454886,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/SargassumInHand-v2.jpg?itok=Wj5bfsYj"}}},"media_ids":["623013"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181637","name":"sargassum"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}