[Coral-List] Sargassum proliferation in SW Atlantic

[Chuanmin Hu]

Dear Mark and Ronaldo: Glad to see these reports from eye sightings. This is actually not surprising - back in January we predicted that 2018 will be another “Sargassum Year”, with perhaps record-high bloom size. Attached is a 1-page bulletin we distributed to many groups, which has been updated every month.
Also, we have a near real-time Sargassum Watch System (SaWS) to monitor large Sargassum rafts in the Caribbean and west Atlantic:
http://optics.marine.usf.edu/cgi-bin/optics_data?roi=ECARIB&current=1 <http://optics.marine.usf.edu/cgi-bin/optics_data?roi=ECARIB&current=1>
http://optics.marine.usf.edu/cgi-bin/optics_data?roi=C_ATLANTIC&current=1 <http://optics.marine.usf.edu/cgi-bin/optics_data?roi=C_ATLANTIC&current=1>

All images are Google-Earth compatible. Feel free to ask questions.
Cheers, 
Chuanmin Hu, University of South Florida
http://optics.marine.usf.edu <http://optics.marine.usf.edu/>



> On May 2, 2018, at 11:00 AM, Mark Tupper <Mark.Tupper at utt.edu.tt> wrote:
> 
> Dear Ronaldo,
> 
> Flying from Tobago back to Trinidad yesterday there were some Sargassum mats gathering along the windrows (edges of Langmuir cells) but there hasn't yet been much accumulation on the beaches. Our last significant Sargassum episode was in February of this year and the last really major proliferation was in July 2017.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark Tupper
> University of Trinidad and Tobago
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov [mailto:coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov] On Behalf Of Ronaldo Francini-Filho
> Sent: Monday, 30 April 2018 11:10 AM
> To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
> Subject: [Coral-List] Sargassum proliferation in SW Atlantic
> 
> Dear all
> 
> I am just back from a 25 days expedition to the Amazon Reef region (0-5 N) and we have documented a huge *Sargassum *proliferation from 0-110 m depth.
> Any similar observations for the south Caribbean?
> 
> All best
> 
> Ronaldo Francini-Filho
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