Sargassum : Symposia : 2023 Symposium

Welcome to the 2023 Sargassum Symposium repository.

Please click here to view the agenda for this event.
The Bios for our presenters can also be viewed here.

Presentations - Day 1

Please feel free to click here to view the proceedings of Day 1 - 3rd Sargassum Symposium.


Welcome (YouTube only)
Presenter - Dr Janice Cumberbatch, CERMES, UWI

Opening remarks (YouTube only)
Presenter - Prof Winston Moore, Deputy Principal, UWI Cave Hill Campus

Featured remakes (YouTube only)
Presenter - Sonia Foster, Permanent Secretary Blue Economy Division

Overview of SargAdapt Project (YouTube only)

Biodiversity onshore/offshore
Presenter - Kristie Alleyne, WMU PhD student
[YouTube segment] [pdf download]

Providing forecasts
Presenter - Dr. Hazel Oxenford, CERMES, UWI
[YouTube segment] [pdf download]

Figuring out sargassum growth
Presenter - Makeda Corbin, CERMES MPhil student
[YouTube segment] [pdf download]

Hazard mapping
Presenter - Micaela Small, CERMES postgraduate research assistant
[YouTube segment] [pdf download]

Economic impacts on tourism
Presenter - Jeanelle Irvine, CERMES postgraduate research assistant
[YouTube segment] [pdf download]

Discussion - All participants (YouTube only)

Community-based participatory approach Presentation and Film
Presenter - Bethia Thomas, CERMES PhD student
[YouTube segment] [pdf download]

Drone training to monitor sargassum beaching events
Presenter - Dr Kim Baldwin, MarSIS
[YouTube segment] [pdf download]

Regional Action Learning Group and Darwin SSM project
Presenter - Yasa Belmar, CANARI
[YouTube segment] [pdf download]

Open dialogue with panelists (YouTube only)
Panelist
- Dr Kim Baldwin, MarSIS
- Yasa Belmar, CANARI
- Bethia Thomas, CERMES PhD student

UNDP Panel Discussion - Real talk or hype: can we use this sargassum landing on our shores?
(YouTube only)
Panelist

- Dr. Mohammad Nagdee (UNDP)

- Crystal Drakes (Senator/Economist)

- Mark Hill (Export Barbados)

-  Dr Hazel Oxenford (CERMES)

Films (YouTube only)

- Heads or Tails
- Drowning in Seaweed
- A Praslin People Perspective on the Pelagic Plague


Presentations - Day 2

Please feel free to click here to view the proceedings of Day 2 - 2023 Sargassum Symposium.


Sargassum Adaptive Management Strategies (SAMS): challenges and opportunities
SAMS Volume 1
Presenter - Patrick McConney, CERMES, UWI
[YouTube segment] [pdf download]

SAMS Volume 2
Presenter - Richeda Speede, CERMES postgraduate research assistant
[YouTube segment] [pdf download]

Panel Discussion (YouTube only)
Panelists:
- Patrick McConney, CERMES, UWI
- Tanbaje Sealy, Blue Economy Division, Barbados
- Aria St Louis, Environment Division, Grenada

SarTRAC, SargSNAP and SARCAP
Presenter - Dr Bob Marsh, University of Southampton
[YouTube segment] [pdf download]

Overview of Early Advisory System Development for Jamaica
Presenter - Romario Anderson, Mona Geoinformatics Inst.
[YouTube segment] [pdf download]

Improving National Sargassum Management Capacities in the Caribbean
Presenter - Karima Degia, Project Manager, UNDP
[YouTube segment] [pdf download]

Sargassum Products for Climate Resilience in the Caribbean
Presenter - Dr Maren Headley, CRFM
[YouTube segment] [pdf download]

Panel discussion - Sharing experiences from Ghana (YouTube only)
Panelists:
- Dr Janice Cumberbatch, CERMES, UWI
- Dr Winnie Sowah, University of Ghana
- Bernice Wilmot Oppong, University of Ghana
- Dr Philip Jayson-Quashigah, University of Ghana
- Peace Dziedzom Gbeckor-Kove, EPA, Ghana

Rum and Sargassum Inc.
Presenter - Dr Legena Henry, UWI
[YouTube segment] [pdf download]

Red Diamond compost
Presenter - Joshua Forte, Founder, Red Diamond
[YouTube segment] [pdf download]

Bioplastic alternative
Presenter - Kerri-Ann Bovell, UNDP Blue Accelerator lab
[YouTube segment] [pdf download]

Biofuel
Presenter - Dr Nikolai Holder, Entrepreneur, UWI
[YouTube segment] [pdf download]

Next steps/ wrap up (YouTube only)
Presenter - Dr Janice Cumberbatch, CERMES, UWI