Episode 6: Connecting people working with Sargassum with Prof. Ligia Collado-Vides

In this episode we talk to Dr. Ligia Collado-Vides. She is a professor at Florida International University and has been studying the ecology of marine macroalgae in the Caribbean and south Florida for the last 20 years. Sargassum is to her a large group of brown algae with more 350 species. Listen to the episode to hear about:

- Information we are still missing about the life cycle of Sargassum natans and fluitans (4:30)

- Differences between Sargassum blooms and other blooms (5:30)

- Which Sargassum species are landing on beaches (6:30)

- SargNet: The network connecting people working on Sargassum (7:30)

- How to communicate in a linguistical diverse region such as the Caribbean (16:30)

- Future of SargNet (19:00)

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֍ Post about your work on the SargNet mailing list so people that joined recently know what you do. Make the post multilingual (use www.deepL.comto translate your text into other languages)

֍Learn how to identify the three pelagic Sargassum morphotypes: natans I, natans VIII and fluitans III

֍ Learn more about the Ligia’s Lab

֍ Read some of Ligias’s work

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