Episodes

Dr. Tom Linton is an emeritus professor at Texas A&M. Tom has studied the impacts of Sargassum on Gulf Coast beaches for decades and was also involved in the development of the predictive model for forecasting Sargassum landings. Brandon Hill is a coastal resources manager for the City of Galveston and has previously worked as director of the shoreline department of the city of South Padre Island and as Sargassum Early Advisory System Project Manager at Texas A&M University.Together they have de...

Dr. Legena Henry is an MIT graduate, and a Mechanical Engineer, who is now the Lecturer for Renewable Energy at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, specializing in Renewable Energy and Applied Mechanics. She researches sustainable energy sources in the Caribbean, such as bio-fuel from Sargassum seaweed, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, and wave energy. Listen to the episode to learn about: Intro (2:30) What Does Sargassum mean to Legena? (3:39) Barbados 100% Fossil Free by 2030! (3...

Florence Ménez est titulaire d’un PhD en anthropologie culturelle et sociale (EHESS, Paris) et d’un PhD en Histoire sociale européenne contemporaine (Université Ca’Foscari, Venise). Elle est coordinatrice du projet de recherche-action SaRiMed (2021-2023), concernant les impacts sanitaires des sargasses en Martinique et à Marie-Galante (Antilles françaises). SaRiMed est financé par la Fondation de France et réunit des chercheur.e.s en sciences sociales de l’UMR AMURE, ainsi que de l’UMR LC2S et d...

LINK TO LISTENERS SURVEY: https://forms.gle/cWVDc9ZUDM56mFsG8 Our guest today is Teresa Chavez-Capilla who is an environmental and bioanalytical chemist, working as a post-doc at the University in Bern, Switzerland. She is working in the Soil Science Unit within the Interfaculty Cooperation Project One Health, which looks at the microbial-mediated effects and transformations of different pollutants in the environment, and across the food chain. Her research focuses on the microbial-mediated tra...

Luis Macías es un experto en comercio internacional con un doctorado en Sociedad de la información y conocimiento, con más de diez años de experiencia en desarrollo empresarial y coordinación de proyectos. Forma parte de la “Earth Life University” en Playa del Carmen, México y además es el cofundador de Alquimar. Alquimar es una empresa dedicada a obtener productos de alto valor a partir del sargazo. Uno de sus últimos logros ha sido producir el bioestimulante fucoidan a partir del Sargazo. Esc...

Our guest today is Andrés Bisonó León who is the CEO and co-founder of SOS Carbon. He is from the Dominican Republic and studied mechanical engineering and finance at Drexel University in Philadelphia. SOS Carbon started as an R&D based at MIT in 2018. After successfully validating the technologies and system, the leading team developed a spinoff project. SOS Carbon is an environmental service company whose mission is to provide the most cost-effective & responsible solutions for sargassum colle...

Pierre-Antoine Guibout est le fondateur de Sargasse Project, un projet de transformation des sargasses en pâte à papier destinée à la fabrication de papier, carton, et plus largement tout objet en cellulose moulée. Originaire de Bretagne (France), Pierre-Antoine Guibout a mené des études en droit des affaires (université de Rennes) et en droit financier (ESCP et université de Paris XI), ce qui lui a permis de fonder une société de conseils. Juriste fiscaliste, il est aussi l’inventeur d’une pât...

Sven Jense is the founder of Climate Cleanup an entrepreneurial non-profit organization with the mission of restoring the global carbon balance by removing 1500 gigaton of CO2 out of the atmosphere using natural climate solutions (NCS). One of the most promising and scalable solutions is seaweed. Eelco Leemans joined Climate Cleanup to work on marine solutions and how the oceans can help to sequester carbon. Together they are investigating if Sargassum can help. Listen to the episode to learn: ...

Jerry Mang’ena is a Marine Biologist, Aquapreneur, and the co-founder and director of Aqua-Farms Organisation in Tanzania. He is a tutor at the School of Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Technology of the University of Dar es Salaam a co-organizer of TEDxOysterbay, a Mandela Washington Fellow, a Global shaper and a Climate Reality leader. Jerry has been able to penetrate the international seaweed market by exporting Seaweed to the United States. He is committed to protecting the ocean from unsusta...

Our guest today is Marion Sutton, an oceanographer and project manager in the Environmental Applications Department of Collecte Localisation Satellites or CLS for short. She was in charge of developing new environmental products and services based on Earth Observation data for the oil & gas and maritime transportation industries. She is now in charge of several projects to valorise the use of Earth Observation marine data through diverse environmental monitoring and drift modelling applications....

We made it to 20 Episodes! Here a little flash back! Thanks to all our listeners and our amazing guests so far! Lowell Iporac from Florida International University Vanessa Selk from Tout monde art Foundation Dayre Catzim from Salgax Victor Smetacek from Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research John Milledge from Greenwich University Ligia Collado-Vides from Florida International University Thierry Lebrun from Martinique Javier Diaz from Stichting Uniek Cu...

Christophe Mouvet est hydrogéochimiste, docteur en hydrobiologie, ingénieur au BRGM (Service géologique national) à Orléans (France), à la Direction Eau, Environnement, Procédés et Analyses. Durant les 10 dernières années, il s’est beaucoup intéressé au chlordécone ; il avait travaillé sur l’arsenic dans une phase antérieure de sa carrière. Christophe Mouvet est le chef du projet Sarg As Cld, lauréat de l’appel à projets “Sargasses” lancé en 2018 par l’ANR et d’autres financeurs. Dans ce podcas...

Jake Kheel is an environmental innovator whose efforts in the Dominican Republic with the Grupo Punta Cana Foundation have won numerous awards and made the country’s tourism more competitive and environmentally sustainable. Jake directs the Center for Sustainability, a think tank partnering with renowned universities to conduct environmental research. He helped pioneer one of the Caribbean’s largest coral reef restoration projects as well as research and development on ways to tackle the Sargass...

En este episodio hablamos con la bióloga marina mexicana Verónica Monroy que nos habla de todos los bichitos asociados con el Sargazo. Verónica es experta en taxonomía, biología y ecología de crustáceos e invertebrados asociados a praderas de pastos marinos y arrecifes coralinos. En 2018 comenzó a estudiar la epifauna asociada al sargazo pelágico y desde 2019 trabaja como investigadora postdoctoral en el laboratorio de la Dr. Brigita van Tussenbroek de la UNAM. Escucha el episodio para aprender...

In this episode we talk to Jasmine Harrison and Mark Sealey. Both of them have completed the 2020 Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge and rowed 3000 miles from the Canary Island of La Gomera to Antigua. More people have climbed Everest in one year than have rowed the Atlantic Ocean, and it is rightly considered to be one of the toughest challenges on the planet. Jasmine Harrison represented the team Rudderly Mad and did the crossing solo. Mark Sealey rowed the Atlantic as part of the 4 person For...

Nous continuons avec l’artiste Louisa Marajo, pour qui les sargasses constituent depuis 2018 une source d’inspiration. Louisa Marajo est d’origine martiniquaise, vit et enseigne à Paris, mais crée souvent in situ sur le littoral de son île natale. Elle a exposé récemment ses œuvres à Paris, ainsi qu’à Miami. Elle co-organise depuis 2019 l’exposition Homo Sargassum avec Vanessa Selk (podcast sur youtube ). Ecoutez cet épisode : Présentation des participants (00:40) Que représente la sargasse p...

Our guests today are Melissa de Freitas, Maxine Trotman and Tessa Davy. Melissa is a Geophysicist working as Energy Officer at the Energy Unit of the Government of St. Vincent. Maxine currently lives in Atlanta Georgia and organizes relief effort from there and Tessa is a retired healthcare professional and is currently on St. Vincent for her tourism related work. Melissa and Tessa share how they experienced the volcanic eruptions on St. Vincent and Maxine shares with us how she organizes relief...

In this episode we talk to Brigitte Gavio who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She leads the Research Group in Molecular Systematics and Biogeography of Marine Macroalgae and her research focuses on taxonomy and biogeography of marine algae. Listen to the episode to hear about: - The importance of Sargassum for sea turtles (7:00) - Currently only the San Andres Archipelago receives Sargassum in larger quantities in Colombia, howev...

Our guest today is Dr Ashley Johns, the founder of Constructive Solutions which is helping with disaster relief efforts in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. He has 20 years experience in disaster response and is an Island Innovation Ambassador. His island Bequia is the closest of the Grenadine islands to St. Vincent and was and is heavily affected by the ash cloud from the recent eruptions of La Soufriere in St. Vincent. He explains to us how he experienced the eruptions and ash cloud and how this...

To see videos and pictures head to our youtube channel and watch the interview there: https://youtu.be/bOfXRGUunBo Our guest today is Stacey Alvarez, a digital sales manager, legal assistant, educational consultant and Island Innovation Ambassador from Barbados. Her island was and is heavily affected by the ash cloud from the recent eruptions of La Soufriere in St. Vincent. She tells us about the weekend when the island was wrapped in darkness and about the effects the ash has on people’s health...

E14: Conserving an incredible ecosystem with Teresa Mackey and Dr David Freestone of the Sargasso Sea Commission The Sargasso Sea Commission was established in 2014 with the goal of conserving the Sargasso Sea. Ms. Teresa Mackey is the Programme Manager of the Sargasso Sea Commission and has been working with it since 2017. Dr. David Freestone is the Executive Secretary of the Sargasso Sea Commission.He is Visiting Scholar and Professorial Lecturer at The George Washington University Law School ...

En este episodio hablamos con Deemian Vera y Dagoberto Ruiz de la empresa mexicana de ingeniería marítima Dakatso. Demian nos habla de las barreras anti-sargazo, los botes de recolección del sargazo y su último producto: el “sargcreto”. Para ellos sargazo es un gran problema cuando llega a las playas de México, pero a la vez es una gran oportunidad como empresa para poder aportar su granito de arena en la búsqueda de soluciones a estas inundaciones. Por eso crearon el Proyecto GIS para la Gestió...

In this episode we talk to Paola Díaz a biologist from Honduras currently studying a masters in Integrated Management of Tropical Coastal Areas at the University of Costa Rica. Her upcoming project with Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología at the University of Costa Rica involve the documentation of the arrivals of Sargassum to Central America. According to her most people think of Sargassum as a problem but in the recent years more and more people also see it as an opportuni...

In this episode we talk to Chris Gug who is better known as just Gug. He is regarded as one of America's foremost underwater photographers. Gug has been making waves in the art scene for well over a decade and has won countless awards, many of which are internationally acclaimed. He didn’t receive a formal photography education, but acquired his skills while living full time on dive boats, shooting pictures every day. Now he is based in Lauderdale by the Sea, Florida where he has an art gallery ...