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HAB Lake Management Workshop 2024
The Division of Water Monitoring, Standards and Pesticide Control and the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium recruited a team of lakes management and cyanobacterial HAB experts to address the second component of the Governor’s HAB initiative focusing on enhancing scientific expertise and building the state’s capacity for HAB response. The HAB Expert Team’s primary obje…
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The 12th U.S. Symposium on Harmful Algae will be held on October 27-November 1, 2024 at Holiday Inn Portland by the Bay in Portland, Maine. “ONE BLOOM: Unifying HAB Science in Aquatic Ecosystems” The theme, ONE BLOOM, seeks to identify and highlight commonalities across diverse study systems and disciplines within Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) research. Sessions and discussions…
Read More12th U.S. Symposium on Harmful Algae Oct 27-Nov 1, 2024
The 12th U.S. Symposium on Harmful Algae will be held on October 27-November 1, 2024 at Holiday Inn Portland by the Bay in Portland, Maine.This event aims to address the national environmental challenges of harmful algal blooms (HABs) across both freshwater and marine systems. Against the backdrop of Maine’s unique ecosystems, we will convene to…
Read MoreHARMFUL ALGAE NEWS No. 74 now available
NOAA Awards $20.1M for Harmful Algal Bloom Research in FY23
NOAA has announced approximately $20.1 million in Fiscal Year 2023 funding for harmful algal bloom (HAB) and hypoxia research via the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) and U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System Office (IOOS). The portfolio includes projects that advance new methods for HAB toxin measurement in seafood to prevent human illnesses; enhance…
Read MoreICHA 2023 in Hiroshima, Japan
The 20th International Conference on Harmful Algae (ICHA) will be held November 5-10, 2023, in Hiroshima, Japan. Please visit the conference website HERE.
Read MoreUpcoming Conferences and Events
Interested in attending upcoming conferences, meetings, workshops, or other events related to HAB science? A timeline of events of interest to the HAB community is available on the US HAB website, and updated periodically. Please click HERE to view the timeline & current listings, which are updated periodically. If you wish to post a meeting or event, please contact Harmful-Algae@whoi.edu.
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Proceedings of the the Workshop on the Socio-economic Effects of Harmful Algal Blooms in the United States
The proceedings document describing the Workshop on the Socio-economic Effects of Harmful Algal Blooms in the United States is now available here. The report documents the proceedings of a 2020 workshop convened by NOAA NCCOS and the U.S. National Office for HABs, and presents recommendations to advance an assessment framework and a national research agenda that will lead to comprehensive evaluations of the social and economic effects of HABs in the fresh (primarily the Great Lakes) and marine waters of the United States.
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