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CSCOR Harmful Algal Bloom Event Response - Examples

Since partnering with the National Office for Marine Biotoxins and Harmful Algal Blooms in 2003, the CSCOR Event Response Program has responded to over 10 HAB events impacting states along the East, Gulf and West Coasts . These responses have addressed a wide range of state and federal management and scientific needs-from assessing human health risks, identifying causes of marine mammal mortalities, offering training opportunities for managers, to establishing baseline conditions for new or re-emerging HABs.

CSCOR Event Responses

2008

• Sampling to Determine Fisheries Impacts of the 2008 Cochlodinium polykrikoides Bloom in the James River and its Tributaries
• Investigating PSP Toxicity in Lobster Tomalley during 2008 Alexandrium Outbreak
• Extending monitoring of 2008 Alexandrium Outbreak in New England
• Assisting Texas in Addressing an Unusual Harmful Algal Bloom

2007

• Investigating Fish Killing Karlodinium bloom in Weeks Bay, Alabama
• Investigating Extent and Impacts of Cochlodinium bloom in Chesapeake Bay and Tributaries

2006

• Mitigating Impacts of Fish Killing Algal Bloom in Puget Sound, Washington
• Monitoring in Casco Bay, Maine, during Alexandrium HAB Event
• Monitoring for Alexandrium in Gulf of Maine

2005

• Karenia brevis, Low Oxygen, and Benthic Mortalities in Florida
• Alexandrium fundyense bloom in Massachusetts Bay and Expanded Efforts in New England
• Harmful Algal Bloom Training in Oregon
• Reappearance of the Texas Brown Tide in Upper Laguna Madre, Texas

2004

• Great Blue Heron Steatitis in Maryland
• Cyanotoxin sampling in the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay
• Bottlenose Dolphin Mortality in the Florida Panhandle

2003

• Cyanobacterial Toxicity in Upper San Francisco Bay

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