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Potential Impacts of Asian Carp in Lake Erie
As the invasive Asian Carp move up the Illinois River threatening the Great Lakes, managers and policy makers struggle with the question of what impact the invasive fish will have ...
Study Supports EPA to Control Both Nitrogen and Ph...
One of the most common bloom-forming cyanobacteria (blue green algae) in freshwater ecosystems is Microcystis, which produces the liver toxin microcystin. Like many cyanobacteria, blooms of Microcystisareassociated with higher temperatures ...
NOAA and Partners Address Environmental Concerns o...
A Blue Ribbon Panel of scientists from NOAA, state, and academia recently released a report addressing environmental concerns with development of a net-pen aquaculture industry in the Great Lakes. The ...
'Smartphone Microscopes' Help Provide Early Warnin...
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 ...
Expanding Harmful Algal Bloom Monitoring in Wester...
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 ...
NOAA, Partners Predict Severe Harmful Algal Bloom ...
On July 9, NOAA and its research partners, using an ensemble modeling approach, predict that the 2015 western Lake Erie harmful algal bloom season will be among the most severe ...
Prestigious Toxins Conference Features NCCOS Scien...
The 2015 Mycotoxins & Phycotoxins Conference, held June 14–19, 2015 at Stonehill College (Easton, Maine) highlighted the latest research on prevention and mitigation of harmful algal blooms by a number ...
Blue Ribbon Panel Reviews Potential for Net-pen Aq...
Organized by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, a Blue Ribbon Panel of scientists from state, federal, and academia met last week to assess environmental concerns with development of a ...
NOAA, Partners Start Early Season Forecast Updates...
This week, in response to increased demand for harmful algal bloom information, NOAA researchers and their partners at Heidelberg University began issuing new experimental, early season forecasts of the seasonal ...
NCCOS Leads Efforts to Prioritize Cyanobacterial H...
In 2014 access to drinking water in Toledo, Ohio was shut downdue to cyanobacterial harmful algal bloom (HAB)toxins from Lake Erie. The National Science Foundation and NOAA responded with a ...
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