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 Humpage1,2,3
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 Stewart1,2, Alan A. Seawright1, Glen R. Shaw2,3
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)