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A floating algal mat forming along the edge of the riverbank of the Shenandoah River.

Leveraging UV Light for Effective Algal Toxin Removal in Drinking Water

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Microcystin

Detecting Sublethal Effects of Harmful Algal Blooms in Mammalian and Avian Cells

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Genome sequences of toxigenic cyanobacteria from a bloom in Lake Mattamuskeet, North Carolina (United States)

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Photo of water flowing into Voyageurs National Park, forested landscape.

Water flowing into Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota
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bright green bubbly sludge attached to the brown rocky lake bed

Benthic Cyanobacteria
Illustrations
Flyer with walrus, drone, and satellite images describing field research with dates and QR code for an Alaska community.

Community Flyer for USGS Walrus Carcass Surveys
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Picture of dead waterbird covered in algae

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

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Photo of a long string of mostly hollow irregular green spherical cells lying diagonally in a grey environment

The Influence of Aerosols on Harmful Algal Toxin Production and Maintenance

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comic panel 6

A Long-Suspected Culprit is Caught - Panel 6
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A bloom of cyanobacteria near the shore of Milford Lake, Kansas

New Method Developed to Quantify Spatial Extent of Cyanobacterial Blooms

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In salty water these cell walls absorb a green stain and turn green
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Gloeotrichia, a type of cyanobacteria that can produce microcystin, in a water sample collected from Kabetogama Lake

Gloeotrichia, a type of cyanobacteria.
Education
I Am An...Ecotoxicologist

I Am An...Ecotoxicologist

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Four sample bottels filled with leachate

Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Environment

Research
Map of survey locations where multiple fluorometers were run in tandem during July of 2022. Lines represent boat transects, colored by chlorophyll fluorescence (fChl)

In situ chlorophyll fluorometer validation and comparison study

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Isolation and identification of microcystin-degrading bacteria in Lake Erie source waters and drinking-water plant sand filters

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USGS

Pathogen and Emerging Contaminant Laboratory

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Climate, Water Quality, Toxic Blooms of Golden Alga in Texas
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Hydrotechs Kayaking

Characterization of Potentially Toxic CyanoHAB Initiation in Slow-Moving Streams, Wetlands, and Oxbows

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Satellite monitoring of cyanobacterial harmful algal bloom frequency in recreational waters and drinking water sources

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Plant toxicity, adaptive herbivory, and plant community dynamics

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Delaware River Basin

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Surface-water and streambed-sediment quality of streams draining surface-mined land reclaimed with sewage sludge, Fulton County, Illinois, 1972-89

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Landsat Image of Cyanobacteria

NWQP Research on Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs)

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Effects of brevetoxins on murine myeloma SP2/O cells: Aberrant cellular division

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Seventeenth breeding-bird census. 34. Diked wet meadow

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Plant-derived products selectively suppress growth of the harmful alga Prymnesium parvum

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Close up of a cyanobacteria bloom on Elysian Lake, Minnesota

Review of Cyanobacterial Neurotoxins—Information for Prioritizing Future Science Directions

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Mercury bioaccumulation in wood frogs developing in seasonal pools

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

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