SoundHAB: Harmful Algal Bloom Listserv: SoundHAB, 2010 kickoff message

[Jack Rensel]

SoundHAB 2010 -- Monitoring and Emergency Response Partnership for Puget
Sound Harmful Algal Blooms

 

Welcome to the fifth year of SoundHAB operation.   We are off to a slow
start due to the weather, but that changes fast and so do blooms in our
region. The purpose of this list serve is for researchers and managers to
share timely information about harmful algal blooms throughout the Pacific
Northwest but especially Western Washington marine waters.  There are
currently 92 members with several new members this year and a few who will
be actively monitoring discrete locations.

 

We are interested in exchanging information on all types of HABs, fish kills
(wild and farmed), unusual oceanographic events and related information.
There are currently three major research groups in Western Washington
involved in research on Heterosigma akashiwo. Also a study being published
this month by Rensel, Haigh and Tynan has linked Heterosigma blooms with
mortality of Fraser River juvenile sockeye salmon over the past 20 years.
This raises the question about other salmon runs and marine fish,
particularly those with strong riverine influence in the late spring, early
summer during juvenile fish seawater entry and the early fall when some
species of adult salmon return.  Alexandrium catenella and domoic acid toxin
causing species remain high priority species and we ask that fish and
shellfish farmers and others report blooms of any of these species
immediately.  We also can expect the unexpected in terms of new or recurring
problem species, it is the nature of the work.

 

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. Please contact
me, Dr. Jack Rensel at jackrensel at att.net for assistance if you cannot solve
list serve problems using the WHOI web site link.  

 

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managers and students, not the news media.

 

Thank you for your contributions, 

 

J.E. Jack Rensel Ph.D.

Rensel Associates Aquatic Sciences

jackrensel at att.net

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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