Tune into the Algal Bloom Action Team’s first webinar of the year focusing on cyanobacteria! The webinar will feature the work of Rick Stumpf of NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and Rebecca North of the University of Missouri’s College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. They will look at cyanobacteria in the Great Lakes from satellite and explore winter cyanobacteria.
The Algal Bloom Action Team, a collaboration of water professionals, researchers, and educators from 12 states in the North Central Region of the United States, invites you to submit an abstract to the Fifth Annual Harmful Algal Bloom Virtual Symposium. The symposium will feature emergent harmful algal bloom (HAB) research and provide opportunities to discuss community outreach efforts.
To learn more about this opportunity, you can read more on our website.
The Algal Bloom Action Team has recently published a new fact sheet with information on how to prevent harmful algal blooms (HABs) on your land. You can view this fact sheet below, or see the PDF on the National Institutes for Water Resources website here.
The Algal Bloom Action Team has recently published a new fact sheet with basic information on Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs). You can view this fact sheet below, or see the PDF on the National Institutes for Water Resources website here.
This edition of the Algal Bloom Action Team will feature Ellen Preece, Senior Scientist for the California Department of Water Resources. Dr. Preece will share her research monitoring microcystin from 2020 to 2023, which spanned California’s driest consecutive 3-year period and one of the wettest years on record (2023).
Tune into the first Algal Bloom Action Team Webinar of the year! This webinar will feature two presentations – Jen Wisecaver, Associate Professor at Purdue University, who will discuss extreme diversity and cryptic species in Prymnesium parvum and Barry Rosen, Professor at Florida Gulf Coast University, who will discuss the secrets of freshwater cyanobacteria blooms.
The North Central Region Water Network (NCRWN) hosted the 4th Annual Harmful Algal Bloom Symposium on January 4th, and you can watch the recordings here!
Check out these videos, as well as more recordings from previous events, on NCRWN’s YouTube Channel.
The Algal Bloom Action Team has recently published a new fact sheet about the health-related effects that harmful algal blooms (HABs) have on animals. You can view the newly released fact sheet here!
The Algal Bloom Action Team invites you to submit an abstract to the Fourth Annual Harmful Algal Bloom Virtual Symposium by October 30th
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
| February 1st | Donna Hill | USEPA | Toxins Associated w/ Freshwater HABs & Mammalian Health Effect |
| April 5th | Jeanine Refsnider Alba Argerich |
University of Toledo University of Missouri |
Effects of Lake Erie Harmful Algal Blooms on Wildlife Health Lessons Learned from 30 Years of Community Science- The Lakes of Missouri Volunteer Program |
| June 7th | James Cotner John Lenhart |
University of Minnesota Ohio State University |
TBD Use of Activated Carbon for Cyanotoxin Treatment |
| August 2nd | Adam Heathcote Katherine Canfield |
Science Museum of Minnesota USEPA |
TBD TBD |
| October 4th | Grace Wilkinson Ann St. Amand |
University of Wisconsin, Madison PhycoTech, Inc. |
TBD TBD |
| December 6th | Gina LaLiberte Anna Boegehold |
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research |
CyanoHAB TBD |
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