Archive for February 17, 2023

Emma Pate, a new training coordinator and environmental planner in the Office of Environmental Health, is working with tribes in the Bering Strait region to establish a monitoring program to track harmful algae. When a massive algal bloom was detected in the region during the summer of 2023 by scientists aboard the R/V Norseman II,…

Kristy Lewis, research on HABs and professor at the University of Central Florida (UCF), was recently interviewed for an AccuWeather story. This story helped to raise community awareness about red tide along Florida’s southwest coast and covered health concerns related to respiratory symptoms and information about consumption of shellfish. Here is a link to the…

The Anderson Lab is working with Mote Marine Labs, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, and Florida University scientists to do field trials at permitted test sites in Tampa Bay. Don Anderson was interviewed recently for this news story.