TAMUG Helps Galveston Island

The Galveston County Daily News reports the students are the lifeblood of the Sargassum Early Advisory System, a NASA-funded project the university developed to study and report the movements of mats of sargassum seaweed from the Atlantic Ocean through the Caribbean Sea, into the Gulf of Mexico, and, ultimately, onto the Texas Coast.

Texas A&M Galveston doctoral candidate Robert Webster leads the program, which is seeking to define the ways the sargassum moves through coastal waters and possibly answer why some years are worse than others in terms ofseaweed landings.Seaweed isn't a new issue, Webster said. It's not an invasive species that just appeared. The cycle has repeated itself annually for more than 4 million years, he said.

Read more about the team of seven students who are part of the program at theeagle.com.