Pelagic Sargassum in the Western Tropical North Atlantic: Does the Amazon Plume Drive Sargassum Growth?
Joseph Peter Montoya1, Erica Kelley Strope1, Ajit Subramaniam2, Elana Jasmine Ames3, Richard N Peterson4, Mengqiu Wang5 and Chuanmin Hu6, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Biological Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, United States, (4)Coastal Carolina University, Coastal and Marine Systems Science, Conway, SC, United States, (5)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, (6)University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Optical Oceanography, St Petersburg, FL, United States