The Algal Bloom Action Team invites you to join them for their Sixth Annual Harmful Algal Bloom Virtual Symposium on January 8th, 2026. Registration is now live here, and there is a registration fee of $25.
Sixth Annual Harmful Algal Bloom Symposium Now Open for Registration!
The Algal Bloom Action Team invites you to join them for their Sixth Annual Harmful Algal Bloom Virtual Symposium on January 8th, 2026. Keep an eye on the new Algal Bloom Action Team website for more details upcoming!
Upcoming Algal Bloom Action Team Webinar December 3rd: Advances in Water Quality Modeling Through Knowledge Guided Machine Learning
The Algal Bloom Action Team invites you to join their upcoming webinar featuring speaker Paul C. Hanson, who will speak on the usage of knowledge guided machine learning to power advances in water quality modeling.
Upcoming Algal Bloom Action Team Webinar: Mitigating Harmful Algal Blooms in an Extreme Global Climate
The Algal Bloom Action Team invites you to join their upcoming webinar on October 21st featuring speaker Hans W. Paerl, who will speak on mitigating harmful cyanobacterial blooms in an increasingly chaotic and extreme global climate.
Sixth Annual Harmful Algal Bloom Virtual Symposium Call for Abstracts
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 Sixth Annual Harmful Algal Bloom Virtual Symposium. The symposium will feature emergent harmful algal bloom (HAB) research and provide opportunities to discuss community outreach efforts.
In Case You Missed It: ABAT Webinar Recording
On August 6th, the Algal Bloom Action Team hosted a webinar to discuss the work being done on cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cHABs) in Minnesota. Cody Sheik, microbial ecologist, talks about the process of tracking and managing cHABs
Upcoming Algal Bloom Action Team Webinar: Minnesota’s Blooming Problem
The Algal Bloom Action Team invites you to join their upcoming webinar featuring speaker Cody Sheik, who will speak on the broad work being done on cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cHABs) in Minnesota.

Cody Sheik is a microbial ecologist who focuses on microbial life in freshwater systems. His lab uses molecular tools to address a broad range of questions regarding nutrient cycling in cyanobacterial blooms, cyanotoxin production, biogeochemistry, and biogeography.
- When: Wednesday, August 6th, 2025, 11 AM CDT
- Webinar Link
Great Lakes Climate Resilience Webinar June 18
This webinar, Realizing Resilience: Coordinating efforts from across the Great Lakes basin, is the first of a three-part series from the Great Lakes Commission (GLC): Realizing Resilience: Coordinating efforts from across the Great Lakes basin. The webinar series is offered in advance of the Midwest Climate Resilience Conference, scheduled for October 20-22 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Staff from the University of Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership (MCAP) will preview the upcoming Midwest Climate Resilience Conference, and the Great Lakes Commission will provide an overview of GLC’s Action Plan for a Resilient Great Lakes Basin. This Action Plan helps to prioritize basin-wide efforts and forms a roadmap to advance climate resilience in the region.
Great Lakes Themed Midwest Climate Resilience Conference in October 2025
The Great Lakes Commission’s (GLC) Standing Committee on Climate Resilience is thrilled to partner with the Midwest Climate Resilience Conference (MCRC) to offer a Great Lakes theme for this 3-day convening, scheduled for October 20-22 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The GLC is coordinating a Great Lakes conference sub-track that will highlight basin-wide resilience efforts for all conference attendees, and will host a working session for Great Lakes resilience practitioners.
Summer Symposium August 5-7
Join the Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center this summer to meet adaptation scientists and practitioners, learn about innovative research, and discuss regionally important issues related to climate adaptation.


