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On this page you can find harmful algal blooms data from various resources.

Federal

• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List [external link]
    This site contains EPA’s list of contaminants that are not regulated, occur in public water systems, and may require regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Algae that can be harmful are on this list ...more
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  • Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition, Office of Plant and Dairy Foods and Beverages, Poisonous Plant Database [external link]
    This site contains the Poisonous Plant Database, which includes certain HABs ...more
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  • HAB Forecasting System [external link]
    This is an interactive mapping tool that can be used to access recent HAB data from the Gulf of Mexico. The tool also maps environmental conditions that may affect the spread of HABs ...more
  • Harmful Algal Blooms Observing System [external link]
    This is an integrated information and communication system for managing HAB data, events, and effects ...more

International

• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
  
  • Global Directory of Harmful Algal Bloom Experts [external link]
    
  • Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts Bibliographic Database [external link]
    This database includes HAB-related abstracts ...more
  • Database of Harmful Algal Monitoring Systems [external link]
    This meta-database contains information about the design and implementation of international HAB monitoring and management systems ...more
  • Harmful Algal Event Database [external link]
    This database contains information about HAB events that occurred between 1987 and 1998. The information is based on annual reports from member states ...more
  • International Working Group on Harmful Algal Bloom Dynamics (WGHABD)
    The ICES- IOC Working Group on Harmful Algal Bloom Dynamics (WGHABD) was established in 1994 on the basis of a Study Group on the Dynamics of Algal Blooms established two years earlier. The aim of the working group is to outline the various physical, chemical and biological interactions associated to the harmful algal blooms (HAB) and to define the main gaps in research.
  • Mapping of HABs in Western Europe and North America [external link]
    This site provides maps of harmful events related to phytoplankton blooms that have occurred in Western Europe and North America during the past decade. The information relates to the presence of toxins or to observations of animal or plant mortality, regardless of the toxicity level ...more

States

• Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Latest Domoic Acid Levels [external link]
  
  • This database contains information about the levels of the marine toxin domoic acid along the Washington Coast, as of October 2003. Domoic acid has been blamed for more than 100 shellfish-related deaths in North America ...more

• Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), Olympic Region Harmful Algal Bloom (ORHAB) [external link]
  
  • This is the first major attempt to try to understand harmful algal bloom (HAB) events and the corresponding toxins that affect razor clams along the Washington coast...more

Universities

• University of Maine
  
  • Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (ECOHAB) Research Project, Gulf of Maine [external link]
    This site contains HAB-related data on the Gulf of Maine ...more

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