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RESOURCES

On this page you can find useful information about harmful algal blooms from various resources.

Federal

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
    • Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs)
      Provides definition of HABs, description of CDC’s HABs-related activities, and links to data, publications, and resources ...more
    • Cyanobacteria
      Provides general information about cyanobacteria, description of CDC’s cyanobacteria-related activities, and links to data, publications, and resources ...more
    • Harmful Marine Algae
      Provides general information about marine microalgae and links to data and resources.
      • Ciguatera
        This site defines Ciguatera, provides information about CDC’s Ciguatera Diagnostic Method Study, and includes links to publications and other resources ...more
      • Red Tide
        This site defines red tide, describes CDC’s red tide-related activities, and provides links to data, publications and other resources ...more
    • Pfiesteria piscicida
      This site defines P. piscicida, describes CDC’s P. piscicida-related activities, and provides links to data, publications, and other resources ...more
  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
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International

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Non-profit Organizations

  • Olympic Region Harmful Algal Blooms Partnership [external link]
    This site describes community-led, NOAA-funded efforts to monitor HABs in the Olympic Region of the United States, develop better HAB-monitoring tools, and teach community members how to collect HAB data ...more
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States

  • Florida Department of Health, Division of Environmental Health, Aquatic Toxins Program
    • HABs [external link]
      This site provides information on the four HAB's in Florida (Red Tide, Cynobacteria, Saxitoxin, and Ciguatera) and links to Florida's research projects, public health policy development and surveillance activities ...more
  • North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology program
    • HABs [external link]
      This site gives an overview of North Carolina’s HAB program, and provides links to the state’s HAB-related surveillance, research, and education activities ...more
  • Mid-Atlantic Sea Grant Programs [external link]
    This site provides links to HABs-related projects in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and North Carolina. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution funds the projects ...more
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Universities

  • University of Maryland
    • Fish Health in the Chesapeake Bay [external link]
      This site provides links to the university’s toxic algae and HAB activities, and includes fact sheets, publications, press releases, and contact information ...more
  • University of Maine
  • ECOHAB Pacific Northwest [external link]
    This site describes a five-year project, funded by NOAA and directed by several universities in the Pacific Northwest, to study the physiology, toxicology, ecology, and oceanography of toxic Pseudo nitzschia species off the Pacific Northwest coast ...more
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Others

  • Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
    • Toxic and Harmful Algal Blooms [external link]
      This site provides a comprehensive overview of several types of HABs, including Pfiesteria, brown tide, and Ciguatera. It includes drawings of marine animals affected, maps of where the HABs occur, and drawings of the molecular-level effects of certain HAB toxins ...more
  • Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment [external link]
    This site discusses the need for HAB indicators ...more
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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