Named for the color the microorganisms give seawater when stimulated by sunlight, red tides are common seasonal phenomena in coastal waters. "There are many different types of red tides depending ...

Colonies of Didemnum vexillum encrusting mussel cages. Okeover Inlet, Malaspina Peninsula, BC, 2003. Photo credit Gordon King (TSF). Dredging channels and cleaning boat hulls or fishing gear in or nearestablished ...

Bruce Keafer calls it a robot in a box. Roughly the size of a kitchen sink, it was lowered into the waters off Portsmouth, N.H., last week, where it will ...

During the week of April 26, researchers funded by the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science deployed a sensor that detects cells of the species of algae responsible for toxic ...

From April 10-12, 2012, Alaska's Department of Health and Social Servicesreportedthree suspected cases of paralytic shellfish poisoning caused by blooms of the harmful alga Alexandrium. Allthree individuals ate shellfish harvested ...

A moderate "red tide" is expected in New England this spring and summer that could force the closing of shellfish beds, according to experts. A red tide is a type ...

In April, scientists from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science-funded Prevention, Control, and Mitigation of Harmful Algal Blooms research project in the Gulf of Maine issued an outlook for ...

New England is expected to experience a 'moderate' regional 'red tide' this spring and summer, report NOAA-funded scientists working in the Gulf of Maine to study the toxic algae that ...

Scientists from a NOAA-funded project in the Gulf of Maine issued an outlook for a moderate season of toxic algae blooms known as "red tides" in the spring and summer of ...

SPR chips are about the size of a dime. An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV)-based HAB sensor currently under development is being targeted for integration within the rapidly emerging IOOS infrastructure ...