Article highlighting a new paper in #GreatLakes Research on links between #algalblooms and #hypoxia. Low oxygen in the Central Basin is an important impairment to the #LakeErie ecosystem that will be a focus of the 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative #CSMI next year. We are in the midst planning many projects to target #geochemistry, #nutrients, #foodwebs and habitat use during the 2024 fieldyear.
#Canada #USA #ClimateChange
https://windsor.ctvnews.ca/more-algal-blooms-likely-in-lake-erie-report-1.6493160

This CBC article notes the trade-off associated with #eutrophication and #AlgalBlooms with fish habitat use and productivity. Our collaborative 2019 project in #LakeErie targeted this exact factor. Many players with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (#DFO), Ohio State U and EPA among many others. Required the CCGS Limnos, EPA Lake Explorer II and DFO RV Cisco. A bunch of papers will be out this year for this project! #cyanobacteria #HABs #microcystin #Fisheries #GreatLakes
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/lake-erie-anglers-consider-algae-helpful-1.6915783

Episodes of harmful algal bloom [HAB] are happening more often off the California coast and in more places than ever before. The cause? Warming ocean temperatures caused by climate change and chemical-laden runoff from cities and agriculture, made much worse by the current El Niño.

The current HAB event off California is sickening and killing sea lions and other marine animals at an unprecedented rate.

#SeaLions #AlgalBlooms #PacificOcean #ElNiño #ClimateChange

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/28/sick-sea-lions-california-beaches-toxic-algae-bloom

#Ocean #temperatures are off the charts, and El Niño is only partly to blame https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-13/rising-temps-in-the-north-atlantic-have-startled-researchers

And it’s not just the Atlantic, as
Such warming events can have considerable consequences, including triggering #algalblooms, #bleachingcoral and negatively affecting #fisheries and other #ecosystems, Johnson said.

#keepitintheground
#KeelingCurve
#ForAMillenia
#ParisAligned

"When Humboldt lugged his sack of bird shit to Europe, it seems safe to say, he had no idea what lay ahead—the wrecking of the guano islands, the Bou Craa conveyor belt, the war in Western Sahara, aquatic dead zones, and, potentially, phosphogeddon. This is the hazard of innovation. Short-term solutions often turn out to have long-term costs."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/phosphorus-saved-our-way-of-life-and-now-threatens-to-end-it

#phosphorus, #algalblooms

"#Fertilizers filled with the nutrient boosted our ability to feed the planet. Today, they’re creating vast and growing #DeadZones in our lakes and seas."

#Phosphorus Saved Our Way of Life—and Now Threatens to End It

#AlgalBlooms #HABs #BigAg #Agrochimie #CAFOs #FactoryFarming #WaterPollution #eutrophication

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/phosphorus-saved-our-way-of-life-and-now-threatens-to-end-it/amp

"Harmful algal blooms create challenges around the globe for water quality and health risk management for humans, wildlife and pets. A team of researchers from the University of Oklahoma is leading an effort toward better management of Microcystis blooms and toxins through a new genome-based taxonomy".

#algalblooms #taxonomy #wildlife
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/976545

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/01/climate/cape-cod-algae-septic.html #environment #HABs #algalblooms #toxins

Green, stinky blooms
Human waste and warming water
Cape Cod's toxic stew

#climatechange #algalblooms #massachusetts #haiku #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/01/climate/cape-cod-algae-septic.html

Eek! Pink snow is a red flag for the US Western state's water: Researchers are trying to understand what drives snow algal blooms and how they could alter #water supplies.
#environment #AlgalBlooms #snow
https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.12/north-water-pink-snow-is-a-red-flag-for-the-wests-water via High Country News

RT @CMEMS_EU: We can not predict #algalblooms, it is therefore important to monitor them. Check out how HAB Risk used the portfolio of #CopernicusMarine #data to forecast #harmfulalgalblooms and map risks of their occurrence in the #Baltic sea.
https://marine.copernicus.eu/services/use-cases/monitoring-harmful-algal-bloom-baltic-sea-hab-risk-service

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1546531530314498050

#UN to issue first-ever global report on harmful algal blooms

A 7-year analysis of almost 10,000 Harmful #AlgalBlooms (#HAB) events worldwide over three decades will be published by the HAB Programme of #UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission.
The troublemakers are approximately 200 species that can produce potent #toxins or cause harm through their sheer biomass, plus a similar number of non-toxic species that can harm fish gills...

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/tca-uti112920.php

#oceanography

Oh, #shit! #Hurricane #Florence is going to #NorthCarolina, which has the some of the world’s largest #FactoryFarms and #CAFOs and, therefore, also the source of billions of tons of #AnimalWaste that will get redistributed. So many #animals will drown in the storm because the factories are located in #FloodPlains. #ToxicWaste #Pollution #DeadZones #Bacteria #Sludge #DeadPigs #AlgalBlooms #Feces #ClimateChange #Toxic #Manure

https://returntonow.net/2018/09/13/nc-hurricane-manure-lagoons/