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HABs in the Kodiak Archipelago: HAB Monitoring and...

Locations of monitoring beaches for shellfish toxicity in the Chiniak Bay study area, Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska. The project will enhance an existing HAB monitoring framework built by the Kodiak Area ...

Hand-held Sensor for Domoic Acid Poisoning of Mari...

The algal toxin domoic acid (DA) poisons hundreds of marine mammals each year. Presently, first responders do not have access to sensors capable of rapidly and accurately monitoring DA for ...

Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) Forecasting

Our offshore HAB forecasts notify coastal managers before blooms reach the coast. Our forecasts identify harmful blooms, location, size and trajectory. Our early warnings provide health officials, managers and water ...

Harmful Algal Bloom Community Technology Accelerat...

The project team will establish a California regional hub for harmful algal bloom data, technology, and knowledge transfer, and then expand or export these technological tools to other regions on ...

Harmful Algal Bloom Detection Instrument Validatio...

We are improving detection of species of the toxin-producing alga Alexandrium in the field by producing highly portable, efficient, and effective biosensors. Alexandrium can be hard to identify and sample, ...

Harmful Algal Bloom Event Response: Helping New Yo...

Emergency funds from NCCOS allowed New York to monitor algal toxins during a bloom event that coincided with a state spending freeze. Shellfish consumers and the reputation of one of ...

Harmful Algal Blooms Event Response: Responding to...

We helped Alaska state regulators, the shellfish industry, and community leaders initiate routine, rapid screening of noncommercial shellfish in southeast Alaska for paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins. We also worked ...

Harmful Algal Blooms, Acidification and Climate Ch...

This project investigates the interactive effects of acidification, warming, and nutrients on three economically important harmful algal bloom (HAB) species in the Salish Sea. Spanning the western US-Canada border, the ...

Histological Techniques for Marine Bivalve Mollusk...

To best manage marine resources such as bivalve mollusks (i.e., clams, oysters) and crustaceans (i.e., crabs), scientists must have access to the tools needed to study the health of these ...

How will Climate Change Affect Harmful Algal Speci...

We are supporting research that will determine how future increases in temperature and ocean acidity will affect harmful algal bloom species (HABs) and their grazers. Light micrograph of Karlodinium veneficum ...

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Southeast Alaska Tribes Trained to Detect Harmful ...

Southeast Alaska tribal members participating in HAB workshop. NCCOS’s Phytoplankton Monitoring Network trained over 40 environmental tribal personnel from Southeast Alaska in toxic phytoplankton sampling and identification. This workshop took ...

NOAA Announces FY23 Notice of Funding Opportunity ...

Western Lake Erie True Color Image of a harmful algal bloom derived from Ocean and Land Color Instrument (OLCI) sensor on Copernicus Sentinel-b obtained from EUMETSAT. NOAA’s National Centers for ...

NCCOS Assists Response to Harmful Algal Bloom in t...

Dead sturgeon observed floating during USGS field sampling in South Bay. NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) provided a Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) Event Response award of $15,420 ...

NCCOS Assists Response to Ongoing HAB in the Lower...

NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) provided a Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) Event Response award of $6,820 to the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) to respond to ...

NCCOS’ PMN Spanish Language Translation Used in In...

Innoceana, an international NGO based in Los Angeles with sites in Costa Rica, Spain and Thailand, partnered with the Phytoplankton Monitoring Network (PMN) to include phytoplankton sampling in their existing ...

New Publication Evaluates Chlorophyll-a Algorithms...

Map of the study area showing each monitoring station from the Chesapeake Bay Program used in this study. A new scientific paper describes methods for evaluating the efficacy of five ...

Gulf Stream Warm Core Rings Can Enhance Slope Wate...

Figure 1: (a) Satellite images of SST on 24 Aug, 2016 highlighting 6 WCRs in the slope sea off the Mid-Atlantic Bight and Gulf of Maine. (b) Figure showing the ...

NCCOS Provides HABscope Training for Chesapeake Ba...

Dr. Margaret Mulholland from Old Dominion University (left) and Dr. Kim Reece from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (center, at microscope) test the HABscope system during last month’s training ...

Smaller Harmful Algal Bloom Predicted for Western ...

Bloom severity index for 2002–2021, and the forecast for 2022. The index is based on the amount of biomass over the peak 30-days. NOAA and its research partners are forecasting ...

New Virtual Workshop Expands Tribal HAB Sampling t...

Thomas Farrugia of AOOS demonstrating the digital microscope to be used by participants. NCCOS scientists from the Phytoplankton Monitoring Network (PMN), in collaboration with the Alaska Ocean Observing System and ...

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Data & Publications

Macro- to Fine-Scale Spatial and Temporal Distributions and Dynamics of Phytoplankton and Their Environmental Driving Forces in a Small Montane Lake in Southern California, USA

A wireless network of buoys, two autonomous robotic boats, and an autonomous tethered vertical profiling system were used to characterize phytoplankton dynamics and spatiotemporal changes in chemical and physical forcing factors in a small montane lake (Lake Fulmor, Idyllwild, California) ...

Mesozooplankton and Microzooplankton Grazing During Cyanobacterial Blooms in the Western Basin of Lake Erie

Lake Erie is the most socioeconomically important and productive of the Laurentian (North American) Great Lakes. Since the mid-1990s cyanobacterial blooms dominated primarily by Microcystis have emerged to become annual, late summer events in the western basin of Lake Erie ...

Mitigating the Expansion of Harmful Algal Blooms Across the Freshwater-to-Marine Continuum

Anthropogenic nutrient overenrichment, coupled with rising temperatures, and an increasing frequency of extreme hydrologic events (storms and droughts) are accelerating eutrophication and promoting the expansion of harmful algal blooms (HABs) across the freshwater-to-marine continuum. All HABs—with a focus here on ...

Model initialization in a tidally energetic regime: A dynamically adjusted objective analysis

A simple improvement to objective analysis of hydrographic data is proposed to eliminate spatial aliasing effects in tidally energetic regions. The proposed method consists of the evaluation of anomalies from observations with respect to circulation model fields. The procedure is ...

Model Simulations of the Bay of Fundy Gyre: 2. Hindcasts for 2005-2007 Reveal Interannual Variability in Retentiveness

A persistent gyre at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy results from a combination of tidal rectification and buoyancy forcing. Here we assess recent interannual variability in the strength of the gyre using data assimilative model simulations. Realistic hindcast ...

Models of harmful algal blooms: Conceptual, empirical, and numerical approaches

In June 2009, a workshop was convened under the auspices of the Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (GEOHAB) program to develop strategies for using observations and models to address the science questions articulated in the Open Science ...

Models: Tools for synthesis in international oceanographic research programs

Through its promotion of coordinated international research programs, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) has facilitated major progress on some of the most challenging problems in oceanography. Issues of global significance—such as general ocean circulation, the carbon cycle, the structure and ...

Molecular Response of the Bloom-Forming Cyanobacterium, Microcystis aeruginosa, to Phosphorus Limitation

Cyanobacteria blooms caused by species such as Microcystis have become commonplace in many freshwater ecosystems. Although phosphorus (P) typically limits the growth of freshwater phytoplankton populations, little is known regarding the molecular response of Microcystis to variation in P concentrations ...

Monitoring Approaches for Early Warning of Domoic Acid Events in Washington State

On the U.S. west coast, blooms of the potentially toxic diatom Pseudo-nitzschia can cause amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP), resulting in economic impacts to coastal economies and public health concerns. The transfer of toxin, via filter feeding of Pseudo-nitzschia or ingestion ...

Monitoring Oregon Coastal Harmful Algae: Observations and Implications of a Harmful Algal Bloom-Monitoring Project

The accumulation of domoic acid (DA) and saxitoxins (STX), phycotoxins produced by some species of Pseudo-nitzschia and Alexandrium, respectively, in coastal food webs are a focus of research on the West Coast of the United States due to the deleterious ...

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