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Applications of satellite ocean color sensors for monitoring and predicting harmful algal blooms

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Red tide in Berkeley marina raises concern for toxic blooms in central Bay

Presentations and Events

National Liaison Committee Meeting: Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs)
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Harmful algal blooms in the Alaskan Arctic: An emerging threat as oceans warm

Featured Films and Shorts

USGS Studies Harmful Algal Blooms in New York
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Harmful algal blooms turn lake water emerald green

Harmful algal blooms turn lake water emerald green
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Satellites quantify the spatial extent of cyanobacterial blooms across the United States at multiple scales

Center News
Images of snow algae and snow cyanobacteria on snow fields in the Beartooth Mountains of Wyoming and Montana

Pink snow: Algae blooms high in the mountains of Yellowstone (and around the world)

Research
Picture of dead waterbird covered in algae

Review of Wildlife Health Outcomes and Potentially Toxic Algal Blooms in the Chesapeake Bay

State News Release
USGS Studies HABs and Water Quality in New York

USGS Kicks Off Innovative Project to Study Harmful Algal Blooms in New York

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Microscopic view of a phytoplankton cell collected in San Francisco Bay

Causes and Relevance of Phytoplankton Blooms in the Northern Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

State News Release
Photo of USGS scientists measuring nutrient levels in Goggin Drain, Utah.

Nutrient Experiments May Help Gain a Better Understanding of Algal Blooms in Utah

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Evaluating management options to reduce Lake Erie algal blooms using an ensemble of watershed models

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Cyanotoxin mixtures and taste-and-odor compounds in cyanobacterial blooms from the midwestern united states

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A South San Francisco Bay sediment budget: Wetland restoration and potential effects on phytoplankton blooms

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A mechanism for offshore initiation of harmful algal blooms in the coastal Gulf of Maine

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Harmful algal blooms turn water in Milford lake emerald green

U.S. Geological Survey Science Opportunities Related to the Nationally Relevant Study of Harmful Algal Blooms and Algal Toxins

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Toxic Alexandrium blooms in the western Gulf of Maine: The plume advection hypothesis revisited

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Transient spatial patterns in plankton communities: Blooms and traveling waves of phytoplankton in estuaries

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Phytoplankton community interactions and cyanotoxin mixtures in three recurring surface blooms within one lake

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Signs warn public of dangers of harmful algal blooms

Signs warn public of dangers of harmful algal blooms
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Hyperspectral Characterization of Common Cyanobacteria Associated with Harmful Algal Blooms (ver. 2.0, October 2020)

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Assessing the relationship between cyanobacteria blooms and respiratory-related hospital visits: Green Bay, Wisconsin 2017–2019

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Monitoring algal blooms in drinking water reservoirs using the Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager

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Dam - Red Bluff Reservoir, Texas

Webinar: Relationships among Climate, Water Quality and Toxic Blooms of Golden Alga in Texas

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Temporal and spatial monitoring of cyanobacterial blooms at Willow Creek Reservoir, North-Central Oregon

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Spatial variability of harmful algal blooms in Milford Lake, Kansas, July and August 2015

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Harmonized continuous water quality data in support of modeling harmful algal blooms in the United States, 2005 - 2022

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Notice sign on Marion Beach about an algae bloom potentially unsafe

Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB) Research
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Increase in nuisance blooms and geographic expansion of the freshwater diatom Didymosphenia geminata

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