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.
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.
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
(Now Closed) Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub Hosts Webinar March 15th to Develop an NSF RCN Proposal
The Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub (MBDH) plans to develop an NSF RCN proposal to address community needs, and we are interested in input from academic researchers, government agency staff, nonprofits, and industry partners to ensure we have cross-sector engagement. There will be additional opportunities for input and collaboration discussions over the next few weeks.
MBDH will be hosting a Collaboration Cafe webinar on March 15th, which will be focused on developing a research proposal, with the goal of building a community around water data and cyber infrastructure.
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
3:00–4:00 p.m. CT
4:00–5:00 p.m. ET
Topic: Building New Data Science Collaborations in the Midwest
Host: John MacMullen, MBDH Executive Director
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.
2023 Harmful Algal Blooms Webinar Series Calendar
| 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 |