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Complex Interactions Between Harmful Phytoplankton...

We identified how nutrients and exotic zebra mussels interact to promote harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the Great Lakes. Results show the relationship between nutrient loading, herbivore grazing, and HABs ...

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

Emerging Algal Toxins in the California Current Sy...

Surveys in California have highlighted the occurrence of HAB toxins in estuarine waters and shellfish, but there is concern that current monitoring approaches under-report the threats. There is a need ...

Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Other Topics, Sponsored Research, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, California, Pacific Ocean, U.S. States and Territories, Washington, Waterbodies, marc.suddleson@noaa.gov

Improving Tools for Monitoring Multiple HAB Toxins...

The impacts of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) toxins are an emerging public health and environmental issue in brackish and marine ecosystems, yet coastal harmful algal bloom (HAB) monitoring programs to date ...

Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, California, Pacific Ocean, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, marc.suddleson@noaa.gov

Microcystins in Bivalves: Optimizing of Monitoring...

This project addresses an emerging concern across the US - the transfer of freshwater algal toxins into the marine environment where they can infiltrate the food web and present a ...

Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Other Topics, Sponsored Research, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Atlantic Ocean, California, Chesapeake Bay, Long Island Sound, New York, Pacific Ocean, U.S. States and Territories, Virginia, Waterbodies, marc.suddleson@noaa.gov

Mitigating Microcystis in the Chesapeake Bay

Chitosan, a natural compound, is added to concentrations of local sediments and commercial clays to control harmful algal blooms. We are studying the impacts of this mitigation technique on natural ...

Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Maryland, U.S. States and Territories, david.kidwell@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

Towards a Predictive Understanding of Our Ecosyste...

Cyanobacteria blooms and toxin production are an urgent contemporary problem in the US and worldwide. Water quality models are important tools for managing these problems, but currently the utility of ...

Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Other Topics, Sponsored Research, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Great Lakes, Massachusetts, Tennessee, 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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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

Florida's HAB Problem: Why are HABs so Prevalent i...

A new publication, sponsored in part by NCCOS, reviews the history and status of harmful algal blooms in Florida, why they occur, the main species of concern and management challenges ...

August 30, 2021 Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Other Topics, Sponsored Research, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Atlantic Ocean, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, marc.suddleson@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

Report on U.S. Marine HABs: History, Current Statu...

NCCOS recently supported a review of the status of marine HAB problems in the U.S., part of a global statistical analysis of harmful algal blooms (HAB) events. The study relies ...

July 15, 2021 Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Other Topics, Sponsored Research, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, maggie.broadwater@noaa.gov

Enabled by NCCOS Response and Training, SC Respond...

Left: Visible Aphanizomenon bloom from Goose Creek Reservoir. Right: NCCOS scientist Steve Morton collects samples. Credit Karen Morton. A blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) bloom was detected in a reservoir used as ...

May 24, 2021 Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, South Carolina, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, jennifer.maucher@noaa.gov, steve.morton@noaa.gov

Southeast Alaska Tribes Trained Virtually to Detec...

NCCOS’s Phytoplankton Monitoring Network trained over 30 environmental tribal personnel from Southeast Alaska and Kodiak Island in toxic phytoplankton sampling and identification. The training took part during the 8th Annual ...

August 26, 2020 Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Other Topics, Outreach, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Technology Transfer, Alaska, Bering Sea, Pacific Ocean, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, jennifer.maucher@noaa.gov, steve.morton@noaa.gov

Study Identifies Causes of Toledo’s Unprecedented ...

Aerial view of the 2017 cyanobacteria bloom at the mouth of the Maumee River, Toledo, Ohio. Credit: NOAA. On September 20, 2017, an unprecedented cyanobacteria bloom was reported in the ...

August 26, 2020 Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Other Topics, Sponsored Research, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Great Lakes, Ohio, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, marykate.rogener@noaa.gov

Virtual Training Workshop Instructs Volunteers on ...

A virtual workshop was convened at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), on July 23, 2020 to train regional stakeholder and volunteer groups in the operation of MBio Diagnostic’s LightDeck technology-based ...

August 12, 2020 Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Other Topics, Sensor Development, Sponsored Research, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Great Lakes, Michigan, Ohio, U.S. States and Territories, Waterbodies, felix.martinez@noaa.gov, greg.doucette@noaa.gov

New Research Raises Questions About How, Where Cya...

Cyanobacteria bloom in Maumee Bay, near Toldeo, Ohio, July 2015. Credit: Toldeo Aerial Media. New NCCOS-funded research shows that microbes in the water column may not play a primary role ...

June 3, 2020 Harmful Algal Bloom Detection and Forecasting, Other Topics, Sponsored Research, Stressor Impacts and Mitigation, Canada, China, Foreign Countries, Great Lakes, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, U.S. States and Territories, Virginia, Waterbodies, john.wickham@noaa.gov

NCCOS Science, Funding are Backbone of U.S. HAB Mo...

NCCOS-supported regional harmful algal bloom (HAB) monitoring programs span the United States and help build a global HAB monitoring and prediction system. A recent article in Frontiers in Marine Science ...

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