NOAA scientists are supporting the response to a bloom of cyanobacteria that contaminated drinking water in Lake Erie on August 2nd, leaving nearly 400,000 in Toledo, OH without drinking water ...

According to NOAA and its partners from several Ohio universities,western Lake Erie will have a large bloom of cyanobacteria, a toxic blue-green algae, in late summer.The predicted bloom is expected ...

A multi-agency team of researchers has begun a summer-long project to investigate chemical pollution in the Niagara River. The team will collect water, sediment, and mussel samples from various locations ...

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 ...

A 2014 special issue of the Journal of Great Lakes Research details the findings of a five-year, NCCOS-funded project in Michigan's Saginaw Bay designed to better inform bay restoration efforts ...

Invasive Asian carp have established themselves in many lakes and river systems in the upper mid-West. Once established, they have wreaked havoc on existing food chains. Some of these invasive ...

Non-native Grass Carp, introduced to U.S. ponds and lakes by federal and state agencies in the early 1960s, were considered a low cost, nonchemical alternative for aquatic weed control. Despite ...

A new report aimed at Great Lakes policymakers calls for Lake Erie total phosphorus reductions almost 50 percent greater than previous recommendations. Recent total phosphorus reduction recommendations may not reduce ...

Invasive species such as zebra mussels have substantially changed the Great Lakes, with Asian carp poised to become the next and most serious invasive threat. Scientists leading a pioneering NCCOS-sponsoredproject ...

Last month's "Seventh Symposium on Harmful Algae in the U.S." held in Sarasota, Fla., highlighted an NCCOS project that developed an integrated alert system to monitor and detect toxic cyanobacteria ...