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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'>SoundHAB 2012 -- Monitoring and Emergency Response Partnership for Puget Sound Harmful Algal Blooms<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'>Welcome to the seventh year of SoundHAB listserv operation. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'>The purpose of this listserv is to provide harmful algal bloom researchers and managers a forum to share timely information about HABs throughout the Pacific Northwest but especially the central and south portions of the Salish Sea. There are currently > 100 members with several new members this year and a few who will be actively monitoring discrete locations. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'>Your email address is stored only on the well-guarded and secure WHOI list serve system. The system is extremely robust in preventing spam attacks too. When you hit “reply” on your browser to a posting it will be sent to the poster, not the list, unless you click on the <a href="mailto:SoundHAB@whoi.edu"><span style='color:blue'>SoundHAB@whoi.edu</span></a> link. In prior years the number of postings have been very limited in cold, wet years but when things heat up and the blooms occur there are numerous messages per day for short periods. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'>It would be useful for all participants if those that are conducting current HAB related research involving field work and sampling in the region provide a short update of their new or ongoing project goals, species involved and contact information so that we can assist each other. For example, during 2012 work continues on <i>Heterosigma </i>(fish killing) bloom dynamics by NOAA NWFSC staff and associates. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'>If you see major blooms, please post a note on this list serve as soon as possible reporting the location and time, even if you don’t know what species are involved so that others may follow up.</span></u><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'> More detail is better of course, but time is of the essence when dealing with these blooms. Fish killing harmful algal blooms may form very rapidly in Puget Sound but in most cases dissipate just as quickly. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'>Periodically during the late spring and summer of 2012 I will distribute a summary of known conditions that indicate increased risk of <i>Heterosigma</i> blooms in central and north Puget Sound. These outlooks are speculative, but have proven useful in the past to predict blooms of some species. (In all cases, it has been repeatedly proven that risk increases on weekends when we would all rather be off doing something else!)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'>The operation of this list is sponsored in part by the NOAA Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research CSCOR Harmful Algal Bloom Event Response Program and a grant to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution with the able assistance of Judy Kleindinst and Eric Cunningham at WHOI. Please contact Dr. Jack Rensel at <a href="mailto:jackrensel@att.net"><span style='color:blue'>jackrensel@att.net</span></a> for assistance if you cannot solve list serve problems using the SoundHAB WHOI web site link. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'>See <a href="http://mailman.whoi.edu/mailman/listinfo/soundhab"><span style='color:blue'>http://mailman.whoi.edu/mailman/listinfo/soundhab</span></a> to access all historical archived postings, subscribe or unsubscribe. Listserv operation, management and contributions are entirely voluntary and the only guideline we have agreed to is that we prefer to involve only researchers, agency and water dependent business managers and students, and specifically not the popular, public news media. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'>If you have comments or suggestions to alter this list serve, please post them or contact me at your convenience. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;color:black'>Thank you for your participation,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Jack<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>J.E. Jack Rensel Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Rensel Associates Aquatic Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>4209 234<sup>th</sup> Street N.E.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Arlington WA 98223<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>