623028 external_news 1562595376 1562597213 Scientists led by the USF College of Marine Science used NASA satellite observations to discover the largest bloom of macroalgae in the world called the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt (GASB), as reported in Science. They confirmed that the belt of brown macroalgae called Sargassum forms its shape in response to ocean currents, based on numerical simulations. It can grow so large that it blankets the surface of the tropical Atlantic Ocean from the west coast of Africa to the Gulf of Mexico.The team included others from USF, Florida Atlantic University, and Georgia Institute of Technology, represented by Joseph Montoya, a professor in the School of Biological Sciences. 

 

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