A public symposium and expert workshop was held on Long Island, NY, May 17–18, 2016with the goal of developing a harmful algal bloom (HAB) action plan for Suffolk County. Three ...

Anew study describes optimal growth conditions for several species and strains of the benthic marine dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus and highlights how these species and strains respond differently to varying levels of ...

A new study shows that water temperature and salinity can indicatethe likelyoccurrenceof toxicAlexandrium blooms (a type of harmful algae) in the U. S. Pacific Northwest. As shellfish become contaminated with ...

NCCOS and their partners have developed a new method for detecting ciguatoxins in fish that does not rely on the typical use of radioisotopes, which are highly regulated and often ...

Sponsored researchers with the NCCOS ECOHAB project looking at regional harmful algal bloom 'hotspots' off coastal California are testing the feasibility of using a robotic water quality and toxin detection ...

At a recentmeeting of the California Ocean Protection Council (OPC), a panel of researchers and managers briefedthe council on the Summer 2015West Coast harmful algal bloom (HAB) event and other ...

An NCCOS-sponsored scientist partnered with a Long Island television station to create a public water quality index that keeps citizens informed of local water conditions. The online, interactive index provides ...

Is this really grouper that I am eating? In order to answer this question, NCCOS sponsored scientists at the University of South Florida (USF) developed and patented a quick identification ...

NCCOS co-sponsored the Eighth Symposium on Harmful Algae in the United States,held this past November in Long Beach, California. The biennial event provides a forum for scientific exchange and technical ...

Recently published findings from an NCCOS supported study in the central Southern California Bight indicate that harmful algal blooms (HABs) of Pseudo-nitzschia can develop offshore and below the surface prior ...