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.
UCOWR and NIWR invite you to engage with leading researchers, educators, water managers, students, and other professionals from across the globe as we seek to develop new and innovative collaborations and transdisciplinary solutions to complex water resources challenges.
Abstracts (300 words max.) for oral, poster, panel, lightning, and participatory should be submitted electronically. The deadline to submit abstracts is January 29, 2025. Notification of acceptance will be late February. If accepted and presented, abstracts will be available for viewing on the Conference Platform & App during and after the conference.
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.
Water quality as a deterrent to the movement of invasive fishes in the Illinois Waterway: Implications for the Upper Mississippi
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).
The University of Illinois System and São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) have the pleasure of inviting you to attend FAPESP Week Illinois on the 9th and 10th of April 2024 at the University of Illinois Discovery Partners Institute.
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 city of Urbana is hosting a Pumpkin Smash event at the Landscape Recycling center on Saturday, November 4th from 11 am to 3 pm. This is a free event to bring your old October gourds to the food compost pile and smash them up, while learning about local compost and organics recycling!
UIUC’s Students for Environmental Concerns (SECS) group is also going to set up pumpkin collecting stations around campus at FAR/PAR, Channing Murray, Ikenberry Commons, and Grainger Library and collect pumpkins on November 4th from 10 am – 2 pm. If you’re a student who has a pumpkin to get rid of but can’t personally get to the Landscape Recycling Center, you can drop it off at one of these pumpkin collecting stations.
The Algal Bloom Action Team invites you to submit an abstract to the Fourth Annual Harmful Algal Bloom Virtual Symposium by October 30th
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