{"691330":{"#nid":"691330","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Sargassum, the smelly nemesis of beach vacations, has become a self\u2011sustaining disaster that will keep coming\u00a0back","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn an article published by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Conversation\u003C\/em\u003E, Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joseph-montoya\u0022\u003EJoseph Montoya\u003C\/a\u003E, Postdoctoral Fellow\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EXing Zhou\u003C\/strong\u003E, and their\u0026nbsp;collaborator discuss sargassum blooms and their impact on the Caribbean and Gulf coasts and the coasts of the tropical Atlantic. According to their research, the vast mats of smelly, brown seaweed affecting these areas may have entered a \u0022self-sustaining cycle, effectively feeding their own expansion.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EIn an article published by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Conversation\u003C\/em\u003E, Professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joseph-montoya\u0022\u003EJoseph Montoya\u003C\/a\u003E, Postdoctoral Fellow\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EXing Zhou\u003C\/strong\u003E, and their\u0026nbsp;collaborator discuss sargassum blooms and their impact on the Caribbean and Gulf coasts and the coasts of the tropical Atlantic. According to their research, the vast mats of smelly, brown seaweed affecting these areas may have entered a \u0022self-sustaining cycle, effectively feeding their own expansion.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2026-07-28 19:31:43","changed_gmt":"2026-07-29 16:23:11","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Conversation ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/sargassum-the-smelly-nemesis-of-beach-vacations-has-become-a-self-sustaining-disaster-that-will-keep-coming-back-287444","dateline":{"date":"2026-07-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-07-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"192254","name":"cos-climate"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}