Scientists from a NOAA-funded project in the Gulf of Maine issued an outlook for a moderate season of toxic algae blooms known as "red tides" in the spring and summer of ...

Regulatory scientists from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Columbia, candidates for reference laboratories, completed two weeks of formal training for high throughput detection of toxins responsible for paralytic shellfish ...

Public health officials have their hands full keeping your clam chowder and raw oysters safe. That's due, in part, to red tides. Red tides happen nearly every year as coastal ...

Sea lions suffering from neurotoxic poisoning usually show no interest in their young, and even attack them when they try to suckle. Photograph by Rick Loomis California sea lions have ...

HABSCS-2012 convenes in Macau on 29 March and Pat Tester has been invited to give a plenary talk entitled 'The Accidental Taxonomists and the Resurgence ofGambierdiscusResearch'. Gambierdiscusis the dinoflagellate genus ...

The National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) has developed a DNA microarray for profiling gene expression patterns in blood to aid in clinical and population level studies of domoic ...

SPR chips are about the size of a dime. An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV)-based HAB sensor currently under development is being targeted for integration within the rapidly emerging IOOS infrastructure ...

Interdisciplinary, cross-agency partnerships are key to managing ecosystem-scale challenges, but the ability to form lasting partnerships that truly meet the science needs of managers is often hindered by ignorance of ...

Solid-phase extraction NCCOS scientists have optimized their previous solid-phase extraction methods in conjunction with liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry to improve the sensitivity of domoic acid determination in seawater and phytoplankton cells ...

Scientists aren't clear on the specifics of how harmful algal toxins get intotop predators, but a recent study showed that whenFlorida red tides bloom, a wide rangeof bottom-dwelling creatures become ...