Tracking Sargassum in the Caribbean: The Design, Deployment, and Validation of a Low-Cost Surface Drifter
This thesis presents the development of a low-cost surface drifter designed to track and monitor the abundant Sargassum seaweed in the Caribbean. The phenomenon of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt (GASB), inundating coastlines in the northern equatorial Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, has raised conce...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/152672 |