Sentences with phrase «algal blooms as»

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.

The lake was suffering from an algal bloom as a result of the unprecedented heat and drought that Oklahoma experienced that summer — an event that scientists have determined was tied to climate change.

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Research from the study proved that focusing on phosphate controls as opposed to nitrogen will end algal blooms at far less cost.

Environmental water is also being used to improve the overall resilience of the ecosystems — that is, ensuring the rivers and wetlands are in good health so they can withstand the short - term effects of events such as blue - green algal blooms.

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Each state government has extensive monitoring arrangements in place to detect and measure algae, as well as comprehensive emergency plans for dealing with algal blooms.

Putting into practice techniques that keep contaminants like manure, phosphorus and pesticides — as well as road salt — from running off the land into creeks and streams and leading to bigger problems like algal blooms, bacteria proliferation and other water quality problems.

At the same time, brown tide and algal blooms have negatively impacted the Peconic Bay and its scallops, and nitrogen from sewage systems and cesspools has been identified as «the primary culprit,» according to the release.

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

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.

Human health challenges as a result of global warming range from injuries after more intense storms to toxic algal blooms

Nutrients, such as phosphorus and nitrogen are essential to crop and animal growth, but too many nutrients cause algal blooms in rivers and lakes.

It also completely removes funds for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, a program devoted to cleaning toxic contamination as well as other problems including invasive species and harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes.

Sometimes, these threats are exacerbated by natural trends, such as changing ocean currents that help spark harmful algal blooms in waters already loaded with nutrients washed from farm fields.

Of the many weather - related factors that contribute to harmful algal blooms (HABs) in Lake Erie, a new study has identified one as most important: the wind.

This study aids in the broader understanding of the complex mechanisms that influence harmful algal bloom progression in bodies of water rich in organic nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen, and points to the direct need to reduce nutrient pollution in the face of both urban and agricultural development.

The process, known as nitrogen deposition, can do great damage to ecosystems, causing soil acidification, fertilizing harmful algal blooms and threatening biodiversity, says Zhang.

As the severity of Lake Erie harmful algal blooms has been on the rise, some would look for a link between summertime algal blooms and hypoxia.

As a result, the CO2 in the algal bloom returned to the atmosphere.

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

«It has long been thought that the algal blooms found in Lake Okeechobee, which are caused by pollution such as runoffs from farms, were solely responsible for driving the blooms and their toxins in the St. Lucie Estuary,» said Brian E. Lapointe, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a research professor at FAU Harbor Branch, who recently presented these findings at the ninth U.S. National Harmful Algal Bloom Conferalgal blooms found in Lake Okeechobee, which are caused by pollution such as runoffs from farms, were solely responsible for driving the blooms and their toxins in the St. Lucie Estuary,» said Brian E. Lapointe, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a research professor at FAU Harbor Branch, who recently presented these findings at the ninth U.S. National Harmful Algal Bloom ConferAlgal Bloom Conference.

As time passed, Lee made another observation: the lake suffered a severe algal bloom.

As sea ice decreases dramatically across polar oceans, some scientists see a silver lining: The algal blooms that seem to thrive where ice has recently disappeared could damper climate change by trapping carbon in the deep ocean.

These nutrients end up in rivers and streams as the result of human activities and can cause algal blooms, loss of seagrass and low oxygen levels, which can lead to large numbers of fish and other organisms dying.

Ecologists refer to this as an algal bloom.

Determining how much carbon is sequestered during such experiments has proved difficult, however, and scientists have raised concerns about potential adverse effects, such as toxic algal blooms.

In a rare benefit from the ongoing drought, this summer has been so dry that the warm water temperatures are not resulting in major harmful algal blooms, such as one that occurred on Lake Erie last year.

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.

Acting as a visual analogy, the algae-esque surfaces of Krone's Screen Paintings comparably relate to the evolving and growing algal bloom that physically exists within the lonesome tank that stands only feet away.

Cox writes: «Acting as a visual analogy, the algae-esque surfaces of Krone's Screen Paintings comparably relate to the evolving and growing algal bloom that physically exists within the lonesome tank that stands only feet away.»

They discussed threats to Long Island's drinking water supply, harmful algal blooms like brown tide and how a local shellfisherman's personal story inspired Chris's path as a scientist and professor.

And the increasing Arctic algal blooming not to be understood as a good sign for the environment, should denyloose get any notion as were it.

IMHO, applying stochastic methods on some specific grid points in the climate models that might have something «unusual», such as a random forest fire, forest clearance, crop failure, or a vast algal bloom, or overfishing going on, might be reasonable, but deteremining the boundary conditions for these to happen is another matter.

«Toxic or harmful algal blooms are not a new phenomenon, although many people may know them by other names such as red tides.

Kristan received an M.S. in marine science from the University of South Florida College of Marine Science, studying nutrient distributions and their impacts on coastal and estuarine systems, as well as their role in sustaining harmful algal blooms in the Gulf of Mexico.

The impacts of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the Great Lakes are being assessed using a range of economic metrics capturing the loss of services provided by the lakes (e.g. increased drinking water treatment costs, property value losses, beach closures), as well as the direct effects of toxic microcystin on public health (Bingham et al 2015, IJC 2013)-- such events are expected to increase in frequency and severity in a changing climate (Michalak et al 2013).

Threats to marine biodiversity in the U.S. are the same as those for most of the world: overexploitation of living resources; reduced water quality; coastal development; shipping; invasive species; rising temperature and concentrations of carbon dioxide in the surface ocean, and other changes that may be consequences of global change, including shifting currents; increased number and size of hypoxic or anoxic areas; and increased number and duration of harmful algal blooms.

However, coastal zones, marine and wetland areas are vulnerable to climate related hazards such as storms including tropical cyclones / hurricanes; waves and storm surges, tsunamis, river flooding, shoreline erosion, and influx of biohazards such as algal blooms and pollutants.

Outside of oceans, the researchers want these particular fish to be useful in freshwater environments as well; for instance, detecting toxic algal blooms, which are increasingly problematic.

As Christine McEntee, president of the American Geophysical Union, explained here, NASA's Earth programs have been used for things like: confronting the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, monitoring dangerous algal blooms that threaten coastal communities, assessing air quality and water availability, predicting floods, responding to earthquakes, and tracking tornadoes and hurricanes.