SoundHAB: Heterosigma project on KUOW Morning Edition, Monday June 6 and Facebook page

[Vera Trainer]

To all SoundHABs participants
Our project will be featured on KUOW (and NPR) "Morning edition" on 
Monday, June 6.  It will be a 7 min description of our research on the 
fish-killing alga, Heterosigma akashiwo, here at Friday Harbor Labs in 
the San Juan Islands.

I will send the link once I know it.

Also check out our Facebook fan page
http://www.facebook.com/HeterosigmaHABLab
Click on "Wall" to see some fantastic video explaining our research.

We have seen the diatom community (primarily Skeletonema, Thalassionema 
with some nice Pseudo-nitzschia chains) become surface floccs in East 
Sound, Orcas Island.  More numerous flagellate have been observed in 
recent net tow samples, especially at the mouth of the Sound.  No 
numbers of H. akashiwo of any significance have been observed.  We will 
do an extensive survey of E. Sound tomorrow, Sunday June 5, as the 
surface water temperatures are creeping to 13.5oC or higher.  The head 
of the Sound is stratified (near the town of Eastsound), with a 
fluorescence maximum between 5-15 m.

We return to Seattle on June 9. I will send another summary before 
then.  Regards, Vera Trainer
-- 

Vera L. Trainer, Ph.D.

Program Manager

Marine Biotoxin Group

Northwest Fisheries Science Center

2725 Montlake Blvd. E.

Seattle, WA  98112 USA


(206)860-6788

(206)860-3335 FAX

vera.l.trainer at noaa.gov

www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/hab

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