Past Projects
Investigations of toxic red tides and groundwater nutrient fluxes in the Nauset Marsh Estuary, Cape Cod National Seashore
A National Park Service project, in collaboration with the United States Geological Survey
PCM HAB: Suppression of Alexandrium blooms by resuspension and burial of resting cysts
A NOAA PCM HAB project
Pan Arctic Alexandrium
An Arctic Research Initiative Project funded through the Ocean and Climate Change Institute at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Dinophysis Toxicity
A National Science Foundation Biological Oceanography Project
Ciguatera Project
A Centers for Disease Control project, funded through the University of Florida (G.Morris, Lead PI)and through the Food and Drug Administration.
Development and application of a fiber optic array system for detection and enumeration of potentially toxic cyanobacteria
An Environmental Protection Agency project
GOMTOX
Dynamics of Alexandrium fundyense distributions in the Gulf of Maine: an observational and modeling study of nearshore and offshore shellfish toxicity, vertical toxin flux, and bloom dynamics in a complex shelf sea.
An ECOHAB regional project.
Deposition and resuspension of Alexandrium fundyense resting cysts in the Gulf of Maine: Phase II
A NOAA ECOHAB cyst project
A comprehensive comparative genomic approach for identifying the saxitoxin synthesis genes
A National Science Foundation project, funded through the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (G. Plumley, Lead PI)
Toxic Alexandrium blooms in the Nauset Marsh System
A NOAA Sea Grant project
En-Gen: Gene expression and harmful algal bloom dynamics
A National Science Foundation project, funded through the University of Arizona (J. Hackett, Lead PI)
Pseudo-nitzschia: Emerging HAB threat in the Gulf of Maine
A NOAA Oceans and Human Health Initiative project
Mating incompatibility among toxic and non-toxic populations of Alexandrium
A National Science Foundation project, funded through the EU-NSF cooperative program.
Fiber Optic Microarray to Detect and Enumerate Harmful Algal Bloom Species
A Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology (CICEET) project.
Ciguatera Fish Poisoning: Dinoflagellate dynamics, toxin formation, and economic impacts
A National Science Foundation SGER and WHOI Ocean Life Institute project
Mitigation of Harmful Algal Blooms Using Clay
A NOAA ECOHAB project