Harmful Algal Bloom Monitoring Alert Program - Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System and Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System (ODIS id: 2566)
Harmful Algal Bloom Monitoring Alert Program - Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System and Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System
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HABMAP - SCCOOS and CeNCOOS
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Abstract
The California Harmful Algal Bloom Monitoring and Alert Program (HABMAP) was formed in 2008 as an ad-hoc consortium of concerned scientists, federal and state managers, and stakeholders. Since 2011, the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) regional associations of California – Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS) and Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System (CeNCOOS) – have been sustaining the monitoring effort. Principal investigators (PIs) sample weekly at nine university-run or municipal pier stations from San Diego to Humboldt for a suite of HAB species and for the neurotoxin domoic acid (DA) caused by the Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) producing diatom Pseudo-nitzschia. The data were used to validate the California Harmful Algae Risk Mapping (C-HARM) System, a model developed with support from NASA Applied Sciences Program and NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) to predict when and where toxic blooms occur to better inform management decisions.
The monthly CA HAB Bulletin, led by SCCOOS, provides a synthesis of model output, near real-time observations, and public health alerts to provide a more complete picture of the regional variability in harmful algal blooms. Click the link to subscribe to the CA HAB Bulletin listserv.