Sentences with phrase «algal blooms»

«Last summer's Toledo water crisis was a wake - up call to the serious nature of harmful algal blooms in America's waters,» said Jeff Reutter, Ph.D., senior advisor to, and former director of, The Ohio State University's Sea Grant program and Stone Laboratory.

A newly published study published online in the April 24 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences entitled, «Ocean warming since 1982 has expanded the niche of toxic algal blooms in the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans,» demonstrates that one ocean consequence of climate change that has already occurred is the spread and intensification of toxic algae.

The state held the summit as an effort to address the growing problem of algal blooms on New York Waterways.

Phosphorus pollution causing algal blooms in Lake Erie alone has reduced the lake's tourism value by $ 4 billion; shoreline properties by another $ 700 million.

«Study finds source of toxic green algal blooms and the results stink.»

This has a variety of unwholesome consequences, most importantly the increasing number of coastal «dead zones» caused by algal blooms feeding on fertiliser - rich run - off waters.

Dr. Binding has been using the images from NASA and European satellites to monitor the progression of warm weather harmful algal blooms on the surface of Lake Erie since 2004.

It is important for veterinarians to encourage owners to keep their pets (and themselves) away from harmful algal blooms as prevention is key to avoiding potential toxic signs.

They found that it was consistent with algal blooms from 2012 and 2013 except for one thing — the Microcystis cells had a viral infection.

Reefs in the Caribbean and in Southeast Asia are suffering particularly seriously from algal blooms caused by abundant nutrients.

FEELING GREEN Freshwater bodies on more than a third of Earth's land area (excluding Antarctica) are maxed out on phosphorus, which can help create algal blooms such as this one.

This image shows the extent of the Lake Erie algal bloom at its height in 2013 (top) and 2014 (bottom).

The problem: Overflow and sprayed waste can find their way into local wetlands, where fecal matter triggers algal blooms that choke out other aquatic life.

The public portion of today's summit on harmful algal blooms begins this hour and runs until 8.

«Senator Portman demonstrated a deep understanding and quick response to the severe problem of toxic algal blooms affecting the people of Ohio.

Nutrients would pour down off the increasingly denuded land into the sea, triggering massive algal blooms, which would exhaust the water of oxygen and threaten fish.

And excess nitrogen fertilizer applied to the fields of feed corn grown to satisfy the world's livestock runs off into streams and rivers, sometimes flowing to coastal waters where it creates large algal blooms and low - oxygen «dead zones» where fish can not survive.

Blue - green algal blooms occurred under natural conditions.

Steven Wilhelm, Kenneth and Blaire Mossman Professor of Microbiology, along with UT graduate students Joshua Stough and Lauren Krausfeldt, worked with a team of 25 researchers to examine the physiological traits of Microcystis, the cyanobacterial organism responsible for scum - like algal blooms in Lake Erie.

The researchers chose the Maumee watershed because it has the most impact on the Western Lake Erie Basin, where most of the dangerous algal blooms occur.

An unprecedented coastwidwide toxic algal bloom linked to anomalous ocean conditions.

Nutrient pollution fuels the growth of harmful algal blooms which devastate aquatic ecosystems.

Many large, eutrophic lakes such as Lake Erie are plagued each year by algal blooms so massive that they are visible from outer space.

There they provide nutrients for algae which increase in numbers in what is called algal blooms.

These extra nutrients would have boosted plant growth on land, but a considerable fraction would have flowed to the seas and fueled algal blooms in shallow waters surrounding the continents.

SEE ALSO Algal Blooms in the Ocean; Bivalves; Coastal Ocean; Crustaceans; Ecology, Marine; Fisheries, Marine; Food from the Sea; Human Health and the Ocean; Marine Mammals; Oceanography, Biological; Plankton.

«Warmer water temperatures could lead to enhanced nutrient loads and affect water quality by promoting algal blooms and impairing the biological functions of aquatic organisms.

In coming decades, warming waters are expected to exacerbate the lake's harmful algal bloom problem.

Unfortunately, climate change and nutrient runoff are making algal blooms even worse.

«Top weather conditions that amplify Lake Erie algal blooms revealed.»

A scientist trying to predict algal blooms probably has an equation that considers not just phosphorus levels, but also temperature, water clarity, and many other factors.

On the other hand, I don't expect the image to look radically different this year, except for some more algal blooming perhaps.

This causes stagnent seas which with the massive runoff from the land carrying huge nutrient loads become huge algal bloom fields.

Cuomo's office touted the grant and other water quality efforts, including the launch of the Finger Lakes Water Hub that provides staff to study algal bloom and focus on Owasco Lake watershed projects and other watersheds in the region.

Learn about Stone Lab's ongoing research into algal blooms and invasive aquatic species.

Increasing algal bloom is poisoning fish and shells, and it has become a health hazard for human beings as well: toxic algae are responsible 60,000 cases of food poisoning worldwide every year.

Harmful algal blooms [133] and hypoxia [134] regularly drive mobile animals from certain areas, and increasing coastal development encroaches upon or destroys habitats.

In the Murray catchment, there are long standing arrangements between Basin state governments for handling algal bloom outbreaks.

Providing higher flows are unlikely to have a significant effect on large - scale algal blooms — the volumes and flows required to disperse blooms are often beyond what can be delivered in regulated systems.

Algal blooms deplete oxygen in the water and block the sunlight that other organisms need to live, disrupting aquatic ecosystems everywhere in fundamental ways.

The increasing frequency and duration of harmful algal blooms threaten drinking water quality and the recreational use of lakes essential to upstate tourism, said Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Of course, it remains unclear whether algal blooms caused die - offs or merely coincided with them.

Together with the calm, warm weather in August, this enabled the heavy algal blooms discovered in the last few weeks.

Nitrogen runoff gives rise to grander algal blooms at the mouths of rivers, like the one at the mouth of the Mississippi.

These elements are known to encourage algal blooms which block out sunlight and stunt the growth of coral.

But when the nutrients wash into waterways, they can spur algal blooms that ultimately suffocate aquatic ecosystems.