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.
Upcoming Algal Bloom Action Team Webinar: A Look at Cyanobacteria
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.
- When: Wednesday, March 5th, 2025, 11:00 AM CT
- Register Here
2025 Annual Water Resources Conference Call for Abstracts is Open
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.
- Abstract Deadline: January 29, 2025
- Conference: Minneapolis, June 3-5, 2025
- Submit Abstract Here
Abstract Call for Harmful Algal Bloom Virtual Symposium – Deadline Extended to November 1st
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.
- Deadline: November 1st, 2024, 11:59 pm Central Time
- Submit: Google Form

