Sentences with phrase «with algal blooms»

The term «red tide» is often associated with these algal blooms.

A crowd favorite, Rebecca Bray and Britta Riley's exploration of the positive potential in urine, explored earlier on Treehugger, the «drinkpeedrinkpeedrinkpee» installation demonstrates a way of treating urine so that, instead of polluting our waterways with algal blooms, our high nitrogen, high phosphorus liquid waste can be used to provide plant nutrients.

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder closely monitors the latest information on blue - green algal blooms and stays in regular contact with local water way managers.

Some food dispensed in aquaculture operations — especially open water cages — is inevitably not consumed and together with faeces the nutrients released into the surrounding water can cause oxygen depletion and potentially lead to algal blooms.

Certain harmful algal blooms, or HABs, have the potential to produce dangerous toxins that can contaminate local drinking water supplies, sicken people, harm aquatic life, and interfere with lake recreation activities.

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.

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.

Ammonia gas can also fall back to Earth and enter lakes, streams and oceans, where it contributes to harmful algal blooms and «dead zones» with dangerously low oxygen levels.

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.

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.

A cheap, safe and effective method of dealing with harmful algal blooms is on the verge of being introduced following successful field and lab tests.

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.

«Scientists monitor with phosphorus the algal blooms in European lakes.»

After ruling out previous causes of such mass deaths — cold weather, disease like morbillivirus and even poisoning by algal bloom — fisheries scientists are left with only one conclusion: «Put all that evidence together and it supports the hypothesis that the oil spill contributed to the increase in deaths,» says veterinarian Stephanie Venn - Watson of the National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego.

«We have good evidence it is chronically affecting the reproduction of certain species,» said Robert Magnien, an algal bloom expert with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Job Description: We are looking for a Master's level candidate or Postdoc with background in marine ecosystems and excellent field, modeling, communication and team - work skills to work towards the improvement of harmful algal blooms detection for user - relevant coastal water monitoring and environmental reporting based on validated Earth Observation and in situ optical data.

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.

With a rapidly changing climate, warmer weather, more intense rainfall, and pollution caused by human activity, we are perpetuating optimal conditions for harmful algal blooms.

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

Increases in seawater temperature have been associated with increases in diseases and algal blooms in the aquaculture industry.

Due to the high cost and the intermittent nature of algal blooms, water utilities will be unable to solve this problem with the available technology (Environment Canada, 2001).

Warmer sea surface water can severely damage coral reefs, facilitate algal blooms, and together with warmer air temperature over the oceans, can increase the destructive potential of tropical cyclones and hurricanes.

Harmful algal blooms, which often produce a toxin and occur in both salt and fresh water, are known to kill fish, marine mammals, and birds; they can contaminate shellfish with toxins and harm human health, sometimes resulting in fatalities.

Geoengineering aims to cool the Earth by methods including spraying sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight, or fertilising the oceans with iron to create carbon - capturing algal blooms.

Phosphorus is the biggest cause of water quality degradation worldwide, causing «dead zones», toxic algal blooms, a loss of biodiversity and increased health risks for the plants, animals and humans that come in contact with polluted waters.

Anna Michalak's team combined sampling and satellite - based observations of Lake Erie with computer simulations and determined that the 2011 record - breaking algal bloom in the lake was triggered by long - term agricultural practices coupled with extreme precipitation, followed by weak lake circulation and warm temperatures.

very limited time window on dumping 100 times more iron than is needed into the sea with even more acid to get a simple algal bloom, some of which [at worst it seems only 1 %] falls to the bottom when the whole lot dies....