Jessica Curran, a high school student from Westhampton Beach, has devised a novel solution to the invasive dasysiphonia japonica seaweed threatening Long Island's ecosystem . Her research aims to repurpose the red seaweed for the benefit of the $194.3 million agricultural industry of Long Island . Curran's project focuses on the red Seaweed native to the Northwest Pacific, which has been wreaking havoc in Long Island waters by