01:11:42 VALENTINA CACCIA: Welcome all! Happy to see all of you 01:11:59 Araceli Grave: good morning Valentina 01:12:13 Patricia Elorza: Buenos días! 01:12:53 VALENTINA CACCIA: Buenos días chicas y chicos de mexico y Rep. Dominicana, Espana, etc 01:14:02 Martin Sherman: Hello from London 01:14:14 VALENTINA CACCIA: Welcome London! 01:14:25 Rosa Rodríguez-Martínez: Hola from Mexico!! 01:14:59 Martin Sherman: Cheers 01:15:00 VALENTINA CACCIA: Hola Mexico! 01:15:28 P McConney: Hello from beautiful Barbados … University of the West Indies … CERMES 01:16:00 VALENTINA CACCIA: Welcome Barbados! 01:16:03 Adèle Veerabadren: Good morning ! I have to leave my office during half an hour, I will come back. 01:16:20 VALENTINA CACCIA: What a great international audience! and local too :) 01:17:20 Marine MARIE-CHARLOTTE: Bonjour from Guadeloupe 01:19:06 John Ricisak: What coordination is there between those conducting the removal and sea turtle nesting monitoring? 01:20:33 ingrid fuquene: What is done with the seaweed after being removed from the beaches? 01:22:02 Peter Bieniek: I would like to know if there can be a coordinated effort to remove the seaweed, take it to a local facility and I believe there is a renewable energy that can be made from this. I was approached years ago by a company that makes a biodiesel out of the seaweed. 01:26:05 Ligia Collado-Vides: For Research, at least in my case getting permits is a huge restriction, it takes months 01:28:40 Ana Zangroniz: @John Ricisak-The beach rakers/cleaners cannot begin their work until the primary turtle survey has been completed. We text each of the supervisors and municipal contacts when that happens. Then, they can begin. 01:30:07 Omar Abdelrahman: Perhaps the dry biomass can be burned as fuel for a steam turbine. 01:30:42 Joe Gonzalez: Very low calorific power from sargassum, also very expensive to turn it into biodiesel 01:32:00 Wendy Cyriacks: Can it be turned into an 'organic' fertilizer? 01:32:47 Joe Gonzalez: Yes, its one of the best options till now, fertilizer...just has to be tested first in content on heavy metals 01:33:08 Omar Abdelrahman: Salt would need to be removed. 01:33:43 Wendy Cyriacks: what about use in aquaculture? 01:34:16 Joe Gonzalez: Inn order to use sargassum, needs to be "clean" means no SAND, the worst is to recover it from the beach. needs to be collected in the wáter, before tpuches the sand 01:34:30 VALENTINA CACCIA: Everybody please mute yourself. thank you! 01:34:31 John Ricisak: Segregation of other debris, particularly plastics, from the sargassum must be another big challenge. 01:34:35 Martin Sherman: Fertiliser use has its limits without removal of the arsenic content over time 01:35:34 Duane Bennish - Elastec: How many miles? What is the distance of the 4 hot spots? 01:35:59 Jane Torres: How much sand are you trucking away along with the seaweed? 01:36:29 VALENTINA CACCIA: Audience, please stop your video also. thank you! 01:36:53 Rosa Rodríguez-Martínez: Mark, the costs that you mentioned include transportation and operation of disposal sites? or just for the activities done on the beach? 01:37:22 Alvin Rodriguez: in the Dominican Republic there is a company that has a barrier approximately 5 km from the beach and stops the sargassum in the water and then a barge comes and picks it up. That way sargassum has less land 01:37:55 Joe Gonzalez: Rosa, buen día. Podrías confirmar el contenido de arena cuando se recoge en la playa?? 60-70% del peso total, es correcto? 01:38:01 Martin Sherman: Alvin, the USA doesn’t allow touching the seaweed until it goes ashore 01:38:23 P McConney: Are entrepreneurs using the disposed of sargassum for manufacture of products? If so, what (maybe besides fertiliser)? 01:40:34 Martin Sherman: A Mexican company developed use as a building material. Companies are looking at use for biofuels but it is logistically difficult to make work once it has hit the beach. 01:41:14 Christina Manus: As Florida relies on ecotourism, is there a possibility the State can make all coastlines "natural beaches" like John Von D. Mizell State Park? I feel that would reduce the expectations from visitors and businesses alike, and would promote the unique Floridian coastline. 01:41:32 Ligia Collado-Vides: Mark and Roland, are you quantifying the daily amounts, could we have access to those amounts 01:42:22 Helena Solo-Gabriele: Hi Roland.... Yes, we will be speaking in a week to summarize the results about sand and seaweed quality. - Helena 01:42:56 VALENTINA CACCIA: Please wait until Q & A for your questions, thanks 01:44:56 Emilio Lopez: All, please feel free to share thoughts, links, resources via this chat. Thanks! 01:46:52 Rosa Rodríguez-Martínez: Roland Samimy, have you checked the concentration of arsenic in the compost made with Sargassum? 01:47:30 VALENTINA CACCIA: Feel Free to chat and exchange ideas 01:47:56 VALENTINA CACCIA: Experiences in other countries 01:49:05 Ligia Collado-Vides: Rosa, we do have some data for Bill Bags and Crandon Park, they are high and similar to Mexico's data, next Friday I will show them next Friday 01:53:24 Emilio Lopez: Any questions for Key Biscayne or Monroe County? Please feel free to add to this group chat 01:53:55 Emilio Lopez: We'll add the questions to a queue for the Q&A section 01:54:33 Clio Maridakis: In the French Caribbean (Martinique and Guadeloupe) ADEME, French Agency of the Environment, has done a report evaluating the different way of Sargassum collection. (you can find it in here : https://www.martinique.ademe.fr/sites/default/files/rapport-synthese-sargasses.pdf ) there is also an English version that we will be add on the website very soon. Meanwhile I can share it by wetransfer to the maillist 01:55:06 Martin Sherman: Mark mentioned hot spots. Are there any temporal/spatial mapping? What sorts of volumes are we talking about? 01:56:04 P McConney: Can participants share management plans and issues? is there an online repository of them? 01:56:36 Gene Rosenberg: What is an "offshore disposal option"? 01:56:38 Emilio Lopez: We'll soon have a listserv to share information...should be ready by the next webinar. 02:00:05 Martin Sherman: Clio thank you I would love to see the English version. 02:01:34 Rosa Rodríguez-Martínez: Rohnda, why don't you put barriers in the entrance of the canals? 02:02:24 Joe Gonzalez: We also have skimmers to remove sargazo combinated with deviating barriers to re-direct floating debris to the skimmers 02:02:43 Rosa Rodríguez-Martínez: In Mexico they install barriers overlapped in places with boat traffic 02:04:18 Rohnda Haag: Monroe offers to install the air curtain barriers in the canals but the operations and maintenance of it has to then be funded by the residents. To date, they have resisted paying an assessment to do this. 02:05:20 Wisler Pierre-Louis: What are the capital and O&M costs associated with air curtain barriers? 02:06:53 Emilio Lopez: Wisler, please feel free to connect with me for more info about air curtains. I know a company in the keys that makes and installs them. Emilio@soptechint.com 02:13:57 Rohnda Haag: The capital costs range from about $40,000 to $100,000. The O&M costs for us are $50-$100 per month per canal resident. It's high, but includes not only the power costs, but also routine maintenance, repairs and replacement costs. WE encourage the residents to install and maintain their own air curtain if they don't want a 20 year assessment set up by the County to maintain a county-installed air curtain. 02:16:31 Rosa Rodríguez-Martínez: Rohnda, how efficient are air curtain barriers? what % of algae they prevent to enter the canal? 02:16:43 Peter Swart: I have a question for Higgins. Are there grants available to studying some of the issues of Sargassom 02:18:04 Luiz Rodrigues: Hard to understand him 02:19:15 Joe Gonzalez: The mexican commitee has agreed since 2 years ago, that burying sargassum is the worst way to take, it feeds organic matter again, that might be washed off to the ocean, and continue feeding live sargassum, and polluting waters 02:20:21 Helena Solo-Gabriele: Dear All... I agree with Roland that there's a limitation of the sand to integrate the Sargassum without causing very high levels of bacteria in the sand. We look forward to sharing our results next week. - Helena Solo-Gabriele 02:21:31 VALENTINA CACCIA: Sorry, I forgot to Introduce Dr. Brigitta from Mexico as our International Expert. She will give us the international perspective, as well as Joel Gonzalez from Mexico. 02:23:18 Joe Gonzalez: Brazil, and all the discharges of organic contents of Amazonian River is an important source of blooms of sargassum 02:23:19 PABLO AGUILERA: I feel that once it gets on the beach its too late! 02:23:37 Joe Gonzalez: correct Pablo... too late 02:25:58 PABLO AGUILERA: What are your thoughts about extracting it while floating if every consideration is taken to protect life such as turtles? 02:26:10 Duane Bennish - Elastec: I concur Pablo and Joe. Keep it in the ocean. 02:27:22 Ken Hamel: Which state agencies have taken an interest in, or exercise a role in, Sargassum governance? 02:28:47 Luiz Rodrigues: Rohnda: is there any satellite monitoring of sargassum flow? 02:29:11 PABLO AGUILERA: yes 02:29:41 Joe Gonzalez: In Mexico, we have the sargazo monitoring net, with Satellite survilance so we could know ahead the amounts of sargazo approaching. Just need to check on tides an winds to predict arrivals... The amount of sargazo out there floating on the atlantic belts....goes to millions of tons, imposible to deal with it on open ocean. 02:30:48 Maria Josefina Olascoaga: Yes Luiz next Friday we will talk about this 02:32:40 Luiz Rodrigues: Thank you Joe. 02:33:37 Rohnda Haag: There apparently are a variety of universities doing monitoring including USF and FAU 02:33:50 Luiz Rodrigues: How about burning sargassum in waste to energy plants? Is it being done in SF? 02:33:56 John Ricisak: It seems to me that tourist and waterfront property tax dollars should be funding the bulk of the research given that the greatest (but not necessarily the most important) consideration seems to be sargassum's impact on the tourist trade and property owner's quality of life. 02:34:08 Shelly Krueger: Has anyone thought of making biochar out of sargassum? 02:34:57 Wisler Pierre-Louis: Do the State's water quality initiatives to address red tide and the Blue-Green Algae Task Force include sargassum? 02:36:34 Jose Pech: thank you very much Valentina for inviting me to this webinar, I find this issue is very important and must be attended to as fast as possible. I also see this as an opportunity to develop new technologies that can use sargassum. You have my full support on this project 02:37:21 Steven Leidner: More Media coverage of issue to focus on yet another impact of Climate Change / e getnv. abuse ? 02:38:40 Clio Maridakis: Shelly there are ongoing research project on biochar (Guadeloupe & France) 02:39:52 Ligia Collado-Vides: For all the audience, this is a fantastic meeting, thank you organizers. We have the list serve SargNet@fiu.edu international discussion forum, you can join and discuss with he international community your experiences and needs. Please send am email to me colladol@fiu.ed or lipor001@fiu.edu There is a good amount of work conducted already and many question to solve together. Sargassum Network Listserv 02:50:14 Ligia Collado-Vides: can organizers send the emails of each one of the participants? 02:51:29 Maria Josefina Olascoaga: yes 02:52:22 VALENTINA CACCIA: Dear Audience, The time of this webinar is not enough for all questions, that is why we planned a second webinar for scientific questions. This is just a start the conversation between all sectors. 02:53:19 Ligia Collado-Vides: https://optics.marine.usf.edu/projects/SaWS/pdf/Sargassum_outlook_2020_bulletin06_USF.pdf 02:54:15 VALENTINA CACCIA: Please scientists and other audience, feel free to answer questions in this chat. Thank you 02:59:39 Mario Gutierrez, P.E.: Thank you all for the participation on this webinar and special thanks to Higgins for her assistance 03:03:33 Mario Gutierrez, P.E.: Thank you all for the participation on this webinar and special thanks to Higgins for her assistance. Mario Gutierrez, PE 03:03:47 Emilio Lopez: Next webinar signup link (July 24th 10am-12pm EST) https://soptechint.com/sargassum 03:04:29 Joe Gonzalez: If you have special questions regarding barriers and skimmers to collect sargassum foating onshore, that we have being using in Mexico, please feel free to contact at joe_mexico@hotmail.com 03:05:59 Helena Solo-Gabriele: Thank you. Great conversations. 03:07:05 Alejandro Quintas: Alejandro Quintas - NEAT SAND: aquintas@neatsand.com 786-340.9770 03:10:06 Perraultr@aol.com Perrault: thanks to all. I learned so much