International Symposium on Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms (ISOC-HAB)

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Table of Contents, Preface (pdf, 24 pp, 407 kb)
Chapter 1: An Overview of the Interagency, International Symposium on Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms (ISOC-HAB): Advancing the Scientific Understanding of Freshwater Harmful Algal Blooms (pdf, 16 pp, 530 kb)
H Kenneth Hudnell¹, Quay Dortch², Harold Zenick¹
¹US Environmental Protection Agency, ²National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Chapter 2: A Synopsis of Research Needs Identified at the Interagency, International Symposium on Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms (ISOC-HAB) (pdf, 28 pp, 277 kb)
H Kenneth Hudnell¹ and Quay Dortch²
¹US Environmental Protection Agency, ²National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Chapter 3: Occurrence of Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms Workgroup Report (pdf, 60 pp, 3088 kb)
Chapter 4: A world overview - One-hundred-twenty- seven years of research on toxic cyanobacteria - Where do we go from here? (pdf, 23 pp, 1438 kb)
Wayne Carmichael, Department of Biological Sciences, Wright State University
Chapter 5: Toxic Cyanobacteria in Florida Waters (pdf, 12 pp, 913 kb)
John Burns, Florida Lake Management Society
Chapter 6: Nebraska Experience (pdf, 14 pp, 1786 kb)
Steven Walker¹, Lund JC¹, Schumacher DG¹, Brakhage PA¹, McManus BC¹, Miller JD², Augustine MM², Carney JJ³, Holland RS³, Hoagland KD⁴, Holz JC⁴, Barrow TM⁴, Rundquist DC⁴, Gitelson AA⁴
¹Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (NDEQ), ²Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services System (NHHSS), ³Nebraska Game and Parks Commission (NGPC), ⁴University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL)
Chapter 7: Cyanobacterial Toxins in New York and the Lower Great Lakes Ecosystems (pdf, 14 pp, 413 kb)
Gregory L Boyer, Department of Chemistry, State University of New York
Chapter 8: Occurrence Workgroup Poster Abstracts (pdf, 18 pp, 236 kb)
Chapter 9: Causes, Prevention, and Mitigation Workgroup Report (pdf, 32 pp, 306 kb)
Chapter 10: Nutrient and other environmental controls of harmful cyanobacterial blooms along the freshwater-marine continuum (pdf, 22 pp, 2280 kb)
Hans Paerl, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute of Marine Sciences
Chapter 11: Global warming and cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (pdf, 20 pp, 638 kb)
Valerie J Paul, Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce
Chapter 12: Watershed management strategies to prevent and control cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (pdf, 16 pp, 1379 kb)
Michael F Piehler, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute of Marine Sciences
Chapter 13: Cyanobacterial toxin removal in drinking water treatment processes and recreational waters (pdf, 16 pp, 268 kb)
Judy A Westrick, Lake Superior State University
Chapter 14: Causes, Mitigation, and Prevention Workgroup Posters (pdf, 26 pp, 298 kb)
Chapter 15: Cyanotoxins Workgroup Report (pdf, 66 pp, 557 kb)
Chapter 16: Toxin types, toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics (pdf, 34 pp, 422 kb)
Andrew Humpage^1,2,3

¹Australian Water Quality Centre. ²University of Adelaide, Australia. ³Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment, Australia.
Chapter 17: The genetics and genomics of cyanobacterial toxicity (pdf, 36 pp, 451 kb)
Brett A Neilan, Pearson LA, Moffitt MC, Mihali KT, Kaebernick M, Kellmann R, Pomati F, University of New South Wales
Chapter 18: Determining important parameters related to cyanobacterial alkaloid toxin exposure (pdf, 12 pp, 202 kb)
Adam H Love, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Chapter 19: Toxins Workgroup Poster Abstracts (pdf, 4 pp, 199 kb)
Chapter 20: Analytical Methods Workgroup Report (pdf, 14 pp, 703 kb)
Chapter 21: Cyanotoxins: sampling, sample processing and toxin uptake (pdf, 18 pp, 412 kb)
Jussi AO Meriluoto, Spoof LEM, Âbo Akademi University
Chapter 22: Field methods in the study of toxic cyanobacterial blooms: results and insights from Lake Erie Research (pdf, 12 pp, 700 kb)
Steven W Wilhelm, University of Tennessee
Chapter 23: Conventional laboratory methods for cyanotoxins (pdf, 26 pp, 431 kb)
Linda A Lawton, Edwards C, Robert Gordon University
Chapter 24: Emerging high throughput analyses of cyanobacterial toxins and toxic cyanobacteria (pdf, 20 pp, 257 kb)
Kaarina Sivonen, Helsinki University
Chapter 25: Analytical Methods Workgroup Poster Abstracts (pdf, 20 pp, 265 kb)
Chapter 26: Human Health Effects Workgroup Report (pdf, 28 pp, 325 kb)
Chapter 27: Health effects associated with controlled exposures to cyanobacterial toxins (pdf, 6 pp, 168 kb)
Ian R Falconer, University of Adelaide Medical School
Chapter 28: Cyanobacterial poisoning in livestock, wild mammals and birds - an overview (pdf, 26 pp, 321 kb)
Ian Stewart^1,2, Alan A. Seawright¹, Glen R. Shaw^2,3

¹National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; ²Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment, Adelaide, Australia; ³School of Public Health, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Chapter 29: Epidemiology of cyanobacteria and their toxins (pdf, 12 pp, 314 kb)
Louis S Pilotto, University of New South Wales
Chapter 30: Human Health Effects Workgroup Poster Abstracts (pdf, 4 pp, 178 kb)
Chapter 31: Ecosystem Effects Workgroup Report (pdf, 20 pp, 368 kb)
Chapter 32: Cyanobacterial toxins: a qualitative meta-analysis of concentrations, dosage and effects in freshwater, estuarine and marine biota (pdf, 58 pp, 456 kb)
Bas W Ibelings¹, Karl E Havens²

¹Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) ²University of Florida
Chapter 33: Cyanobacteria blooms: effects on aquatic ecosystems (pdf, 16 pp, 356kb)
Karl E Havens, University of Florida,
Chapter 34: Ecosystem Effects Workgroup Poster Abstracts (pdf, 10 pp, 189 kb)
Chapter 35: Risk Assessment Workgroup Report (pdf, 56 pp, 2259 kb)
Chapter 35 Appendix A: Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (pdf, 16 pp, 236 kb)
Chapter 36: Effective doses, guidelines & regulations (pdf, 24 pp, 320 kb)
Michael D Burch, Australian Water Quality Centre
Chapter 37: Economic cost of cyanobacterial blooms (pdf, 12 pp, 237kb)
Dennis A Steffensen, Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality & Treatment and Australian Water Quality Centre
Chapter 38: Integrating human and ecological risk assessment: application to the cyanobacterial harmful algal bloom problem (pdf, 18 pp, 1329 kb)
Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta, Wayne R Munns Jr, U.S. EPA
Chapter 39: Toxin mixture in cyanobacterial blooms - a critical comparison of reality with current procedures employed in human health risk assessment (pdf, 28 pp, 304 kb)
Daniel R Dietrich, Fischer A, Michel C, Hoeger SJ
Color Plates (pdf, 8 pp, 3.4 mb)

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