![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090507232637im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Researchers Report 'Moderately Large' Potential for Red Tide Outbreak in Gulf of Maine Region
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April 22, 2009
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The potential for an outbreak of the phenomenon commonly called "red tide" is expected to be "moderately large" this spring and summer, according to researchers with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and North Carolina State University.
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Source Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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