Citizen scientist at the Toledo, Ohio Imagination Station examines phytoplankton samples using the smartphone microscope. Credit: Jen Fuquay, NOAA. Citizen scientists are using 'smartphone microscopes' to identify harmful algal blooms ...

Last week, the NCCOS Charleston laboratories hosted a workshop to develop linkages between the National Ocean Service (NOS) and NOAA's Environmental Cooperative Science Center (ECSC) that will increase science capacity ...

The NCCOS Phytoplankton Monitoring Network,established to monitor phytoplankton and harmful algal blooms (HABs), is partnering with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to expand into the Western Basin of Lake Erie ...

Volunteers with the NOAA's Phytoplankton Monitoring Network reported a bloom of the diatom, Pseudo-nitzschia occurring within NOAA's National Estuarine Research Reserve System at Kachemak Bay, AK. NOAA's Analytical Response Team ...

A grant from the Ocean Reef Conservation Association (ORCA) to the Marine Resources Development Foundation enabled expansion of NOAA's Phytoplankton Monitoring Network (PMN) monitoring sites in the Florida Keys. The ...

Public participation in scientific research is a growing trend. Citizen science, as it is called, typically involves data collection by members of the public who pass their information along to ...

Last October, two cases of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) were confirmed after butter clams containing PSP toxins were harvested for personal consumption from a beach near Sitka, Alaska. Elevated PSP ...

A microscopic image of Mesodinium rubrum. Credit: NOAA. Students from First Flight High School participating as "Phytofinders"forthe NCCOS Phytoplankton Monitoring Network (PMN) identified the non-toxic, single-celled organismMesodinium rubrum as the ...

Volunteer coordinators Jody Patterson (Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary) and Jennifer Fuquay (Phytoplankton Monitoring Network). Credit: Steve Morton, NOAA. The NCCOS Phytoplankton Monitoring Network (PMN) program recently trained volunteers from ...

NCCOS and the U.S. National Office for HABs established a new listserv to address diarrhetic shellfish poisoning. This emerging harmful algal bloom (HAB) issue has caused shellfish harvesting closures in ...