Page 2 - Harmful Algae News Today

Blue Green algae is a problem that people here in Southwest Florida are all too familiar with, especially those living along canals or stagnant parts of the Caloosahatchee River. It's now during the hottest part of the year when blooms become a more noticeable problem.

YAKIMA, Wash.- Test results have confirmed a harmful algal bloom at the lake in Hilsey Park in Granger.

Spanning about one-third of Floridas East coast, the Indian River Lagoon has faced frequent harmful algal blooms in recent years. Among them, Pseudo-nitzschia spp., algae that produces the neurotoxin domoic acid.

Florida Atlantic University platform uses digital holographic microscopy in open waters.

Researchers from Florida Atlantic University's College of Engineering and Computer Science and the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute have developed a system that can help monitor red tide in the coastal Gulf of Mexico.

Each year, the national office of the Beta Beta Beta awards research grants for meritorious undergraduate research proposals. These grants support undergraduate research and are designed to introduce undergraduate students to the basic process of research and research funding.

ULM Biology undergraduate Subash Sapkota was awarded a research grant from the Beta Beta Beta (Tri-Beta) National Biological Honor Society. Sapkota is a double major in Biology and Mathematics at ULM and is a native of Nepal.

Florida Department of Health officials in Manatee, Sarasota, Charlotte, Lee, and Collier counties are issuing health alerts daily warning of the real and present danger to human and animals.

From Tampa Bay south to Ten Thousand Islands, the algae bloom is so prevalent, pungent and potentially poisonous that the authors of health advisories ignored the long-established practice of softening the language to avoid scaring away tourists.

Using spectroscopic data gathered by three satellites, Professor Fiona Johnson’s research group at the Water Research Center, University of New South Wales, has analyzed HAB in small and medium inlet water bodies.