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)
International
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO)
- State of Queensland Australia
-
HAB [external link]
This site describes the state’s plans and procedures for multi-agency
response to HABs ...more
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
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
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
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
Other Environmental Hazards & Health Effects Topics
- Air Pollution
& Respiratory Health
Asthma, carbon monoxide, mold ...more
- Environmental
Public Health Indicators Project
List of core indicators, links to individual indicators, data sources ...more
- National
Environmental Public Health Tracking Program
Ongoing collection, integration, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination
of data on environmental hazards, exposures to those hazards, and health
effects that may be related to the exposures ...more
- Radiation
Studies
General radiation facts, public health research, radon research ...more