The NCCOS Phytoplankton Monitoring Network team helps build toxin testing capacity in communities that rely on marine resources for food. This understanding is critical in areas where monitoring infrastructure is limited. The team recently led a workshop for Tribal members of Arctic Alaska who rely on subsistence harvesting of culturally significant marine resources. Throughout the workshop, participants built skills to identify phytoplankton and detect toxins, which will help them alert their communities to public health risks to illnesses such as paralytic shellfish poisoning. Learn more about the Phytoplankton Monitoring Network citizen science effort: https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/monitoring-and-assessments/pmn/
