Dr. Steve Morton provides microscopy training to citizen scientists. Credit: Steve Morton. NCCOS's Steve Morton and staff from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation recently led an EPA webinar ...

By Maggie Broadwater, guest blogger from NOAA's Harmful Algal Bloom Analytical Response Team. A bottlenose dolphin calf in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: NOAA. Animals living in coastal waters can ...

Volunteers with NOAA's Phytoplankton Monitoring Network have reported a bloom of the diatom, Pseudo-nitzschia in Galveston Bay, Texas, and NOAA's Analytical Response Team has confirmed that the bloom is producing ...

The NCCOS Event Response Program is funding a project to assist the Sitka Tribe of Alaska and other communities in southeast Alaska establish a harmful algal bloom (HAB) monitoring program ...

Two internationally acclaimed harmful algal bloom (HAB) researchers with NCCOS affiliations presented the third EPA Webinar Series to Build Awareness About Harmful Algal Blooms and Nutrient Pollution. Dr. Steve Morton ...

2008 Noctiluca bloom in Ketchican, AK, repeated in 2009 and 2010. Credit: NOAA. For the sixth summer in a row an orange discoloration has appeared in Alaskan coastal waters. NCCOS ...

This small plant could ruin your dinner plans. It's called Alexandrium, and it's responsible for paralytic shellfish poisoning, which you can get by eating contaminated shellfish. Credit: Steve Morton. Coastal ...

The Republic of Korea hosted the 15thInternational Conference on Harmful Algae (ICHA), October 29 - November 2, 2012. The meeting featured the latest scientific research by the international harmful algal ...

Training on rapid screening tools was provided to the state of Alaska, university scientists, regulators, educators, and shellfish industry leaders. Credit: B. Himmelbloom, University of Alaska Fairbanks. In June 2010, ...