Scientific Resources
Journal Articles
2024
Atiglo, D. Y., Jayson-Quashigah, P. N., Sowah, W., Tompkins, E. L., & Addo, K. A. (2024). Misperception of drivers of risk alters willingness to adapt in the case of sargassum influxes in West Africa. Global Environmental Change, 84, 102779. (https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0959-3780(23)00145-0)
Fidai, Y.A., Botelho Machado, C., Dominguez Almela, V., Oxenford, H.A., Jayson-Quashigah, P.-N., Tonon, T., Dash, J. 2024. Innovative spectral characterisation of beached pelagic sargassum towards remote estimation of biochemical and phenotypic properties. Science of the Total Environment. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972308419X?via%3Dihub
Van der Plank, S., Appeaning Addo, K., Anderson, R., Boruff, B., Bruce, E., Chambers, K., Duncan, J., Davies, K., Escoffery, D., Fidai, Y., Fletcher, D., Hickey, S., Jayson-Quashigah, P. N., Maxam, A., Pauli, N., Schlenker, M., Sowah, W., and Dash, J. (2024). The 'more than maps' framework for building research capacity among young people in coastal climate change adaptation.Area. https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/area.12919
2023
Corbin, M., & Oxenford, H. A. (2023). Assessing growth of pelagic sargassum in the Tropical Atlantic. Aquatic Botany, 187, 103654. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2023.103654)
Dominguez Almela, V., Appeaning Addo, K., Corbett, J., Cumberbatch, J., Dash, J., Marsh, R., & Tompkins, E. (2023). Science and policy lessons learned from a decade of adaptation to the emergent risk of sargassum proliferation across the tropical Atlantic. Environmental Research Communications, 5, 061002. (https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/acd493)
Marsh, R., Skliris, N., Tompkins, E. L., Dash, J., Dominguez Almela, V., Tonon, T. & Webber, M. (2023). Climate-sargassum interactions across scales in the tropical Atlantic. PLOS Climate, 2(7), e0000253. (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000253)
Fidai, Y.A., Dash, J., Marsh, R., Oxenford, H.A., Biermann, L., Martin, N. and Tompkins, E.L., 2023. Tracking and detecting sargassum pathways across the Tropical Atlantic. Environmental Research Communications.5(12). https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/ad14a3/meta
Dominguez Almela, V., Tompkins, E. L., Dash, J., & Tonon, T. (2023). Brown algae invasions and bloom events need routine monitoring for effective adaptation. Environmental Research Letters, 19(1), 013003.https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad114c
2022
Machado, C.B, Maddix, G-M, Francis, P., Thomas, S-L., Burton, J.A., Langer, S., Larson, T.R., Marsh, R., Webber, M., and Tonon, T. (2021). Pelagic Sargassum events in Jamaica: Provenance, morphotype abundance, and influence of sample processing on biochemical composition of the biomass. Science of the Total Environment, 817, 152761.(https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152761).
Marsh, R., Oxenford, H., Cox, S.A., Johnson, D.A., and Bellamy, J. (2022). Forecasting seasonal sargassum events across the tropical Atlantic: overview and challenges. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, [914501]. (doi:10.3389/fmars.2022.914501).
Skliris, N., Marsh, R., Appeaning Addo, K., Oxenford, H. (2022). Physical drivers of pelagic sargassum bloom interannual variability in the Central West Atlantic over 2010-2020. Ocean Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-022-01511-1
Trench, C., Thomas, S-L., Thorney, D., Maddix, G-M., Francis, P., Small, H., Machado, C.B., Webber, D., Tonon, T., and Webber, M. (2022). Application of stranded pelagic sargassum biomass as compost for seedling production in the context of mangrove restoration. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10, 12 p., [932293]. (doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.932293 ).
Van Der Plank, S., Cox, S.A., Cumberbatch, J., Mahon, R., Thomas, B., Tompkins, E.L., and Corbett, J. (2022). Polycentric Governance, Coordination and Capacity: The Case of Sargassum Influxes in the Caribbean. Coastal Management, 50(4), 285-305. (https://doi.org/10.1080/08920753.2022.2078172).
2021
Marsh, R., Appeaning Addo, K., Jayson-Quashigah, P.N., Oxenford, H.A., Maxam, A., Anderson, R., Skliris, N., Dash, J. and Tompkins, E., (2021) Seasonal predictions of holopelagic sargassum across the Tropical Atlantic accounting for uncertainty in drivers and processes: The SARTRAC ensemble forecast system. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.722524
Davis, D., Simister, R., Campbell, S., Marston, M., Bose, S., McQueen-Mason, S. J., Gomez, L., Gallimore, W., & Tonon, T. (2021). Biomass composition of the golden tide pelagic seaweeds Sargassum fluitans and S. natans (morphotypes I and VIII) to inform valorisation pathways. Science of The Total Environment, 762, 143134.
2020
Fidai, Y. A., Dash, J., Tompkins, E., & Tonon, T. (2020). A systematic review of floating and beach landing records of Sargassum beyond the Sargasso Sea. Environmental Research Communications, 2(12), [122001]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152761
Scientific Presentations
Empowering communities to tackle invasive seaweed with citizen science - Dr Victoria Dominguez Almela and José Antonio López Portillo
This presentation explains how technology can support citizen science efforts on the monitoring of sargassum influxes in the Atlantic coasts. The presentation was delivered at the University of Mona, Jamaica on Jan 2024 for the Department of Life Sciences' Research Seminar Series.
SARTRAC Scientific Webinar Series
Movement of sargassum – Professor Robert Marsh
This presentation looks at the seasonal drift of sargassum after a major volcanic eruption in April 2021 in the Caribbean, explored with our new forecast system.
Citation: Marsh, R. 2021. Introducing our forecast system and reflection on 2021 season. Presentation given at the SARTRAC Scientific Webinar Series 1: Following Sargassum, Connecting Communities, 13/12/21, Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies, Barbados. Online seminar.
Biology of sargassum – Professor Hazel Oxenford
This presentation looks at the gaps in ecological knowledge of pelagic sargassum that need to be filled to improve the accuracy of sargassum influx forecasts.
Citation: Oxenford, H.A. 2021. Sargassum biology: what we do and don’t know of relevance to forecasting. Presentation given at the SARTRAC Scientific Sargassum Webinar Series 1: Following Sargassum, Connecting Communities, 13/12/2021. Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies, Barbados. Online seminar.
Sargassum risk management in Jamaica – Dr Kerrine Senior
This presentation explores the Sargassum Risk Management Strategy in Jamaica and the Caribbean, which calls for all affected stakeholders (fishers, farmers, government, private sectors, etc) & provides co-ordinated management options for stranded sargassum.
Citation: Kerrine, S., et al. (2021). Risk Management Strategy for Sargassum Stranding in Jamaica and the Caribbean. Presentation given at the SARTRAC Scientific Webinar Series 2, 21/06/22. Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies, Barbados. Online seminar.
Monitoring sargassum and the environment – MSc Ajanni Bissick
This (video) presentation looks into environmental monitoring using open-source remote sensing software and how to apply this to the monitoring of sargassum.
Citation: Bissick, A. 2022. Making environmental monitoring easy – open source approach. Presentation given at the SARTRAC Scientific Webinar Series 2, 21/06/2022, Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies, Barbados. Online seminar.
Biochemical composition of sargassum biomass – Dr Thierry Tonon
This presentation describes the composition analysis of pelagic sargassum morphotypes in Jamaica in 2019 and explores the biochemical composition of sargassum biomass and the effects of processing and storage on potential products.
Citation: Tonon, T. 2022. Biochemical composition of pelagic sargassum biomass, and effects of processing and storage on potential products. Presentation given at the SARTRAC Scientific Webinar Series 4: Pelagic Sargassum Science and Innovation for Entrepreneurship, 18/07/2022. Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies, Barbados. Online seminar.
