Sentences with phrase «of some algal blooms in»

Instead of ice I see a lot of algal blooms in Isfjorden, the fjord on the southern side of which lies Longyearbyen.

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Recent ELA research on the importance of nitrogen pollution in producing algal blooms could save billions of dollars in clean - up costs.

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.

However, an analysis of monitoring data collected over the past 30 years indicates that there are increasing concentrations of blue - green algae in the Murray system and there has been an increase in the duration of individual algal blooms at upstream sites [1].

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder is investigating whether there are opportunities to use the limited volumes of environmental water available to provide refuge habitat for aquatic species (particularly if the decay of the algal bloom leads to low oxygen levels in the waterways).

Harmful algal blooms are increasingly appearing due to the exposure of particular algae to the nitrogen in synthetic fertilizers, which enters waterways via farm runoff.

TICONDEROGA The recent North Country Algal Blooms Summit in Ticonderoga was part of a $ 65 million initiative to understand and prevent the growth of summer algae bBlooms Summit in Ticonderoga was part of a $ 65 million initiative to understand and prevent the growth of summer algae bloomsblooms.

«While the City of Syracuse has assured residents its drinking water systems remain safe, the severe threat of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) must not be taken lightly,» Rep. John Katko, R - N.Y., said in a statement.

Nitrogen discharges are considered a major cause of the brown and red tides and other algal blooms that have wreaked havoc in the bays and other water bodies of Suffolk.

Cayuga County Environmental Health Director Eileen O'Connor said there has been widespread harmful algal blooms in Owasco Lake, and many of the public bathing beaches remain closed.

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.

Cuomo yesterday kicked off the first in a series of four summits addressing upstate lakes and other waterways threatened by harmful algal blooms, which can affect water quality and diminish recreational opportunities and tourism.

Too much nitrogen in water can lead to algal blooms, which reduce oxygen in water and kill large numbers of fish.

Algal blooms, which decrease the clarity of the water, have all but disappeared in the past decade.

Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday announced the dates and locations of four summits supporting the state's effort to protect lakes and water bodies in upstate New York from harmful algal blooms.

Five days after he was at Marist College to discuss his budget and announce a few economic development projects in the Hudson Valley, Governor Cuomo introduced the first of four regional summits supporting the state's effort to protect lakes and waterbodies in upstate New York from harmful algal blooms, or HABs.

Blaming excess nitrogen in area waters for causing harmful algal blooms, fish kills and beach closures, a panel of scientists and experts said Suffolk County should upgrade septic systems, launch buoys to monitor water quality and use imaging to predict problem spots.

«In the short term, the weather forecast is indicative of conditions that the blooms can thrive in,» said Rebecca Gorney, the state Department of Environmental Conservation's program coordinator for harmful algal bloomIn the short term, the weather forecast is indicative of conditions that the blooms can thrive in,» said Rebecca Gorney, the state Department of Environmental Conservation's program coordinator for harmful algal bloomin,» said Rebecca Gorney, the state Department of Environmental Conservation's program coordinator for harmful algal blooms.

The freshwater bodies on 38 percent of Earth's land area (not including Antarctica) are overly enriched with phosphorus, leading to potentially toxic algal blooms and less available drinking water, researchers report January 24 in Water Resources Research.

While the extra nitrogen is a rich resource for algae in the Gulf, driving the growth of massive algal blooms, excess nitrogen has a more deadly impact on other marine life.

Since the algal species is native to eastern Canada, its recent blooms and rapid proliferation in rivers since 2006 — which have angered anglers looking for pristine waters — have been caused by an environmental trigger, with climate change a likely culprit, said Michelle Lavery, a master's degree student at the Canadian Rivers Institute and lead author of the research, published in theCanadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

Excess amounts from human activities often end up in rivers, streams and coastal environments, causing algal blooms, loss of sea grass and low oxygen levels in the water, which can kill large numbers of fish and other organisms.

James Castle and John Rodgers of Clemson University think that such algal blooms — triggered by warming water or an increase in nutrients — might be behind the five largest mass extinctions in Earth's history.

But last week, at the annual meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology in Calgary, Canada, a team of scientists suggested a different killer: harmful algal blooms in the very water that had lured the animals.

This collection of stories investigates low - dose arsenic contamination in rice and other risks to food safety like toxic algal blooms, E. coli in raw meat, BPA in plastics and poisonous honey.

«We are in the process of messing up space, and most people don't realize it because we can't see it the way we can see fish kills, algal blooms, or acid rain,» he says.

Illuminating the scope of the problem, a set of maps shows past algal blooms in U.S. coastal waters, and a short essay delves into why the number of blooms seems to be rising — better surveillance and nutrient - laden pollution are suspected.

Biologists have long known that toxins produced by algal blooms — exploding populations of minute, marine algae — can accumulate in shellfish that graze on them.

For years scientists have known that nitrogen and phosphorus, which commonly enter freshwater lakes in chemical fertilizers, play a role in eutrophication — the process by which algal blooms, turbidity, and oxygen deficiencies turn a lake into a dead zone, largely devoid of animal life.

Ryan's research focuses on algal blooms, the rapid and dense growths of plankton that can starve marine organisms of oxygen and cause hypothermia in seabirds.

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.

Researchers are still trying to understand why algal blooms have exploded in growth since the 1990s in bodies of water around the country and the world.

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.

Regulations on the amount of nitrate that may be released vary by state, but excess nitrate contributes to algal blooms in natural bodies of water, depleting oxygen levels for aquatic organisms.

A study led by researchers at the University of Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration connects the unprecedented West Coast toxic algal bloom of 2015 that closed fisheries from southern California to northern British Columbia to the unusually warm ocean conditions — nicknamed «the blob» — in winter and spring of that year.

Haggling over that crucial amount of flux is why the paper took so long to appear, says Smetacek, but oceanographer Ken Buesseler of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts lauds the detailed calculations in an accompanying commentary in Nature, adding that the study «was similar to natural» algal blooms.

A recent study of harmful algal blooms in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science show a marked increase in these ecosystem - disrupting events in the past 20 years that are being fed by excess nitrogen runoff from the watershed.

In addition to contamination of drinking water, bacteria and other microbes can also contaminate rivers and lakes — for example, the algal blooms in Hong KonIn addition to contamination of drinking water, bacteria and other microbes can also contaminate rivers and lakes — for example, the algal blooms in Hong Konin Hong Kong.

«Destruction of wetlands linked to algal blooms in Great Lakes: Current protection efforts overlook role of wetlands.»

Scientists have long believed that excess soil phosphorus is a culprit behind the murky waters and smelly algal blooms in some of Wisconsin's lakes and rivers.

Dungeness crab is the highest revenue fishery in Washington and Oregon, and the second most valuable in California, although the fishery was recently closed in some areas because of a harmful algal bloom.

Schnetzer and colleagues created their own toxic algal bloom in the lab using P. australis algae, one of the most toxic Pseudo-nitzschia species and one that blooms along the U.S. West Coast.

NOAA, NASA, EPA, and the U.S. Geological Survey announced, in April, a $ 3.6 million multi-agency research effort designed to be an early warning system for freshwater nuisance and toxic algal blooms by using satellites that can gather color data from freshwater bodies during scans of the Earth.

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

Upon mixing with the surface layer, the water will cause an increase in the growth of filamentous algae and elevate the risk of blue - green algal blooms.

In nature, nitrogen and phosphate pollution harms aquatic life by spurring the growth of algal blooms.

In the event of a warm summer, the blue - green algal blooms may be abundant throughout the Baltic Sea's main basin.

The nutrient situation will enable heavier algal blooms in the Gulf of Finland over the coming summer, provided that the weather conditions are favourable, i.e. sufficiently warm and calm.

The study found that in parts of the island where imported palms replaced native trees, the ecosystem unraveled: Seabirds did not nest in the palms and in the absence of algal blooms, the manta rays migrated elsewhere.