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Enhancing Third-generation Environmental Sample Pr...

Monitoring the increase in cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (HABs) in nearshore environments is challenging. Recent development of a long-range autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) equipped with a third-generation Environmental Sample Processor ...

Biological Effects of Contaminants and Nutrients, Other Topics, Sponsored Research, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, felix.martinez@noaa.gov

Portable Toxin Detection Technology to Support Gre...

This project improves the rapid detection of cyanotoxins in the field to provide managers with timely information on risk and minimize exposure to stakeholders. The team will pilot use of ...

Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Other Topics, Sensor Development, Sponsored Research, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Technology Transfer, Great Lakes, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, felix.martinez@noaa.gov

Rapid, Portable, Multiplexed Detection of Harmful ...

We are expanding algal toxin testing to include tests for saxitoxins and anatoxin-a. The new tool will give water managers and community-based monitoring networks the ability to rapidly quantify these ...

Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Other Topics, Sponsored Research, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Great Lakes, Ohio, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, felix.martinez@noaa.gov

Using Microcystin-degrading Bacteria and their Enz...

We will assess the potential that algal toxin–degrading bacteria have to degrade toxins from water treatment facilities. Why We Care Harmful algal blooms (HABs) occur in eutrophic waters across the ...

Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Other Topics, Sponsored Research, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Great Lakes, Ohio, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, felix.martinez@noaa.gov

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Smaller Harmful Algal Bloom Predicted for Western ...

Bloom severity index for 2002–2022, and the forecast for 2023. The bloom severity index is based on the amount of biomass over the peak 30-days. NOAA and its research partners ...

June 29, 2023 Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Great Lakes, Michigan, Ohio, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, richard.stumpf@noaa.gov

NOAA Predicts a Moderate Harmful Algal Bloom for L...

Caption: Blooms with a severity index above 5 generally pose greater risk to drinking water and recreation in Lake Erie, but the impact of a bloom also depends on its ...

May 4, 2023 Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Great Lakes, Ohio, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, richard.stumpf@noaa.gov

2022 Lake Erie Algal Bloom More Severe than Predic...

Bloom severity index (SI) for 2002-2022. The SI is based on the amount of biomass over the peak 30-days. The 2022 bloom had a severity of 6.8. October marked the ...

November 16, 2022 Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Great Lakes, Waterbodies, richard.stumpf@noaa.gov

Lake Erie Eutrophication Exacerbated by Release of...

Lake Erie not only experiences eutrophication caused by runoff-laden phosphorus (P), but also by internal P loading caused by recycling of “legacy” P stored in bottom sediments. This phenomenon was ...

October 27, 2021 Hypoxia, Other Topics, Sponsored Research, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Great Lakes, Ohio, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, felix.martinez@noaa.gov

First Real-time Toxicity Assessment of Lake Erie A...

Preparing the 3G-ESP for use on the Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (LRAUV). Top left: NCCOS scientist inspects custom-fabricated microcystin sensor chip at Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, South Carolina. Top ...

September 22, 2021 Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Other Topics, Sensor Development, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Technology Transfer, Great Lakes, Michigan, Ohio, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, greg.doucette@noaa.gov, reagan.errera@noaa.gov

NOAA Ecological Forecast Helps Solve Mystery in La...

Residents of several northeast Ohio Lake Erie towns were surprised by a strong, foul smell during the first days of September. The residents, fearing a dangerous gas leak, called their ...

September 15, 2021 CHRP, Hypoxia, Other Topics, Sponsored Research, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Great Lakes, Ohio, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, felix.martinez@noaa.gov

Single-day Intensive Sampling Quantifies Algal Tox...

NCCOS-sponsored researchers and their partners conducted one-day intensive water sampling events in 2018 and 2019 to create high spatial resolution snapshots of the amount and locations of cyanobacterial toxins across ...

August 23, 2021 Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Other Topics, Sponsored Research, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Great Lakes, Michigan, Ohio, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, felix.martinez@noaa.gov

NCCOS Expands Monitoring of More Lakes, Coastal Ba...

With harmful algal blooms (HABs) occurring in the nation’s lakes, bays and sounds, NCCOS is expanding HAB monitoring and forecasting to these smaller water bodies which can be resolved by ...

Potential Effects of Bigheaded Carps on Four Great...

A NCCOS study, co-sponsored with the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, used an ecosystem model to evaluate the potential risk of two species of highly invasive bigheaded carp fish (a type ...

June 1, 2021 Invasive Species, Other Topics, Sponsored Research, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Great Lakes, Illinois, Lake Michigan, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, Wisconsin, felix.martinez@noaa.gov

NOAA Lake Erie Harmful Algal Bloom Early Season Pr...

Western Lake Erie is expected to experience a lower than average harmful algal bloom (HAB) this summer, according to the first 2021 Lake Erie Harmful Algal Bloom Early Season Projection ...

May 11, 2021 Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Great Lakes, Ohio, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, michelle.tomlinson@noaa.gov, richard.stumpf@noaa.gov

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Our HAB forecasts alert coastal managers to blooms before they cause serious damage. Short-term (once or twiceweekly) forecasts identify which blooms are potentially harmful, where they are, how big they ...

Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Great Lakes, Waterbodies, richard.stumpf@noaa.gov

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