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MERHAB Fiscal Year 2007 Project Abstracts

• Domoic Acid Dip Stick Test Kit:  A Rapid, Inexpensive, Sensitive Field Assay for Use by Resource Managers, Public Health Officials, Shellfish Harvesters and Citizens Monitoring Groups
  Institutions: NOAA Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research and Northwest Fisheries Science Center
  Investigators: W. Litaker, P. Tester, V. Trainer, and T. Stewart

• Integrated HAB Monitoring and Event Response for Coastal Oregon
  Institutions: Oregon State University, U. of Oregon, Oregon Departments of Fish and Wildlife and Agriculture, and NOAA Fisheries Newport Oregon
  Investigators: P. Strutton, M. Wood, M. Hunter, W. Peterson

MERHAB Fiscal Year 2005 Project Abstracts

• Rapid HAB Detection Instrument Development and Deployment
  Institution: University of Maine
  Investigators: L.Connell and R. Smith

• Monitoring Toxic Alexandrium in Puget Sound using qPCR
  Institution: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  Investigators: Sonya T. Dyhrman and Deana Erdner

• Identification and Monitoring of Nearshore Harmful Algal Blooms on the West Florida Shelf
  Institution: Florida Environmental Research Institute
  Investigators: W. Paul Bissett, Ph.D., David D.R. Kohler, Robert Steward, and Richard Stumpf (NOAA Ocean Service Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment)

• Validating Remote Detection of Karenia brevis
  Institution: The University of Texas at Austin
  Investigators: Tracy Villareal and Richard Stumpf (NOAA Ocean Service Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment)

• Development and Implementation of an Operational Harmful Algal Bloom Prediction System for Chesapeake Bay
  Institutions: NOAA NESDIS, Chesapeake Research Consortium, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science - Horn Point Lab, University of Illinois, Evansville, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
  Investigators: C. Brown, T. Gross, R. Hood, D. Ramers P. Tango and B. Michael

• Detection, Toxicity Characterization of Brevetoxins and Brevetoxin Metabolites and Validation of the ELISA as an Alternative to the Regulatory Mouse Bioassay for Shellfish Monitoring.
  Institutions: Center for Marine Science-UNCW , Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Mote Marine Lab
  Investigators: J. Naar, D.G. Baden, A. Bourdelais, CJ Wright, K.A. Steidinger, L. Flewelling, R. Pierce

• Shellfish HAB Sampling and Monitoring Project
  Institution: Quinault Indian Nation (QIN)
  Investigator: Joe Schumacker

• MERHAB-RAPDALERT - Rapid Analysis of Pseudo-nitzschia and Domoic Acid, Locating Events in near-Real Time.
  Institution(s): University of Southern California, University of California, Los Angeles, University of California Santa Cruz, Southern California Water Research Project.
  Investigators: David A. Caron, Burton H. Jones, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Deborah Estrin, Peter Miller, and Stephen Weisberg.

MERHAB Fiscal Year 2004 Project Abstracts

• California Program for Regional Enhanced Monitoring of PhycoToxins (Cal-PReEMPT)
  Institution(s): University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), California Department of Health Services (CDHS)
  Investigator(s): Peter E. Miller, Raphael Kudela, Mary W. Silver (UCSC) and Gregg W. Langlois (CDHS)
  Partners: Center for Integrated Marine Technology, Center for Integrative Coastal Observation, Research and Education, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Quileute Tribe, La Push, Washington, Central Coast Long-term Environmental Assessment Network (CCLEAN)
  
• In Situ Nutrient Monitoring and Eutrophication-Related Blooms
  Institution: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory
  Investigator(s): Patricia M. Glibert, Louis A. Codispoti, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory
  
• Quantitative Molecular Detection of Multiple HAB Species
  Institution: University of Delaware, Lewes, DE
  Investigator(s): Craig Cary and Kathryn Coyne, University of Delaware
  
• Monitoring Domoic Acid in Marine Food Webs and Water
  Institution(s): NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Quileute Natural Resources, and NOAA Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Restoration
  Investigator(s): Vera Trainer, NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Jay Burns, Quileute Natural Resources; Pat Tester and Wayne Litaker, NOAA Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Restoration

MERHAB Fiscal Year 2002 Project Abstracts:

• Alexandrium Bloom Transport: Observation and Models
  Institution: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  Principal Investigators: D.J. McGillicuddy, D.M. Anderson, B.A. Keafer

• MERHAB Lower Great Lakes
  Institutions: Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY), SUNY Brockport, the University at Buffalo, University of Vermont, Western Michigan University, New York State Sea Grant, and the University of Tennessee.
  Investigators: Gregory L. Boyer, SUNY-College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Joseph Makarewicz, SUNY Brockport; Joe Atkinson University at Buffalo; Mary Watzin, University of Vermont; Tim Mihuc, Western Michigan University; Charles O'Neil New York State Sea Grant; Steven Wilhelm University of Tennessee.
  
• Eastern Gulf of Mexico Sentinel Program
  Institution: Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission-Florida Marine Research Institute
  Principal Investigator: Brian Bendis, Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission
  
• In Situ Optical Early Warning System to Detect Harmful Algal Blooms
  Institution: Texas A&M University
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Lisa Campbell (TAMU/OCN)
  
• Immunoassays for Florida Red Tide Monitoring
  Institution: University of North Carolina, Wilmington
  Principal investigator: Jerome Naar, Center for Marine Science, UNCW
  
• Development and Field-Testing of an Analytical Protocol for Pfiesteria Toxin
  Institution: Old Dominion University
  Principal Investigator: Andrew Gordon, Old Dominion University
  
• Detecting Karenia brevis Blooms in the Western Gulf of Mexico
  Institution: University of Texas at Austin
  Principal Investigator: Tracy Villareal, The University of Texas at Austin
  
• Tier-based Monitoring for Toxic Cyanobacteria in the Lower Great Lakes
  Institution: Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY) Principal Investigator: Gregory L. Boyer, State University of New York