NCCOS and the U.S. National Office for HABs established a new listserv to address diarrhetic shellfish poisoning. This emerging harmful algal bloom (HAB) issue has caused shellfish harvesting closures in ...

On July 16, 2013, NCCOS staff met with New University, Lisban, Portugal, to discuss development of models for siting of shellfish aquaculture and restoration along the U.S. East Coast. The ...

This map shows the preliminary counts of Alexandrium cysts from a survey conducted in January and February 2013. Image courtesy of the University of Washington. In March, the Puget Sound ...

Crew members deploy the MBARI-designed robotic instrument called the Environmental Sample Processor, or "ESP."Credit: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. The journal Science recently declared that new technologies are making remote ...

The Mussel Watch Program is a nation-wide water-quality monitoring program run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Since 1986, it has been crucial in helping scientists and the ...

A recently published study into how Heterosigma rapidly forms blooms discovered a remarkable behavior: they flee. This fish-killing species of microscopic plant swims away when it senses single-celled predators are feeding on ...

University and NOAA investigators have found seed-like cysts of the toxic algaAlexandrium at all depths in a sediment core taken from Sequim Bay in Puget Sound. The depths in which ...

On May 31, investigators funded by the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science released the second annual map of Alexandrium catenella cysts in bottom sediments throughout Puget Sound in the state ...

SoundHAB is an e-mail listserv for researchers, state and local managers, and the mariculture industry to share timely information about harmful algal blooms (HABs) throughout the Salish Sea area of ...

A project to model favorable habitat areas for the dinoflagellate Alexandrium catenella is underwayin Washington's Puget Sound. Sediment from nearly 100 sites will be sampled during two cruises in January ...