SoundHAB: SoundHAB 2012 kick off message

[Jack Rensel]

SoundHAB 2012 -- Monitoring and Emergency Response Partnership for Puget
Sound Harmful Algal Blooms

 

Welcome to the seventh year of SoundHAB listserv operation.    

 

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.  

 

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  <mailto:SoundHAB at whoi.edu>
SoundHAB at whoi.edu 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.  

 

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 Heterosigma (fish killing) bloom dynamics by NOAA
NWFSC staff and associates.  

 

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.  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.  

 

Periodically during the late spring and summer of 2012 I will distribute a
summary of known conditions that indicate increased risk of Heterosigma
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!)

 

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  <mailto:jackrensel at att.net> jackrensel at att.net for
assistance if you cannot solve list serve problems using the SoundHAB WHOI
web site link.  

 

See  <http://mailman.whoi.edu/mailman/listinfo/soundhab>
http://mailman.whoi.edu/mailman/listinfo/soundhab 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.   

 

If you have comments or suggestions to alter this list serve, please post
them or contact me at your convenience. 

 

Thank you for your participation,

 

Jack

 

J.E. Jack Rensel Ph.D.

Rensel Associates Aquatic Sciences

4209 234th Street N.E.

Arlington WA 98223

 

 

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