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
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
New Fact Sheet Released on Prevention and Treatment of Harmful Algal Blooms for Landowners
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.
New Fact Sheet Released on What You Should Know about Harmful Algal Blooms
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.
Upcoming Algal Bloom Action Team Webinar on April 3
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).
Upcoming Algal Bloom Action Team Webinar
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.


