Sentences with phrase «study algal bloom»

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.

Not exact matches

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

The new study by Stefanie Lutz, postdoc at the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ and at the University of Leeds, shows a 13 per cent reduction of the albedo over the course of one melting season caused by red - pigmented snow algal blooms.

Similar studies, meanwhile, suggested that the coral die - off did coincide with an algal bloom — but one that was much bigger than typically associated with such upwellings.

Instead, the study said the mass mortality was likely caused by a harmful algal bloom.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

«A fundamental question has been whether we can directly link expansion of harmful algal blooms to a warming ocean; this paper provides critical, quantitative evidence for just that trend, confirming an expected, but difficult to test, direct link between toxic blooms to climate,» said Dr. Raphael Kudela, Professor of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, a national toxic algae expert who was not part of the study.

Results of the study, which uncovered a major source of nutrients driving the harmful algal blooms, stink.

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.

«In the St. Lucie Estuary study area, septic - to - sewer programs, which include nitrogen and phosphorus removal through advanced wastewater treatment, could help meet this challenge and mitigate future harmful algal blooms,» said Lapointe.

Understanding how fish feeding behavior responds to algal blooms, overfishing, and other disturbances is important for coral reef conservation and requires further study, Gil said.

With more support for dual nutrient management strategies, Wright State researchers show us how they're studying nitrogen's role in runoff and algal blooms.

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.