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2005, Oceanography 18(2):210–227, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2005.55
New Approaches and Technologies for Observing
Harmful Algal Blooms
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Authors
Marcel Babin | Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, CNRS/UPMC, Villefranche-sur-Mer Cedex, France
John J. Cullen | Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Collin S. Roesler | Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, ME, USA
Percy L. Donaghay | Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, USA
Gregory J. Doucette | NOAA/National Ocean Service, Charleston, SC, USA
Mati Kahru | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla CA, USA
Marlon R. Lewis | Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Christopher A. Scholin | Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, USA
Michael E. Sieracki | Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, ME, USA
Heidi M. Sosik | Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
First Paragraph
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) represent a diverse range of phenomena that universally share only two characteristics: they produce effects on ecosystems or food resources that humans perceive as harmful, and their progression is fundamentally a process of population dynamics under oceanographic control. Because of the complexity, scales, and transient nature of HABs, their monitoring and prediction requires rapid, intensive, extensive, and sustained observations at sea. These requirements cannot be met with traditional approaches that depend on ships for sampling and laboratories for chemical or biological analyses. Fortunately, new sensing technologies that operate autonomously in situ will allow, in the near future, the development of comprehensive observation strategies for timely detection of HABs. In turn, developments in modeling will support prediction of these phenomena, based directly on real-time measurements.
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Citation
Babin, M., J.J. Cullen, C.S. Roesler, P.L. Donaghay, G.J. Doucette, M. Kahru, M.R. Lewis, C.A. Scholin, M.E. Sieracki, and H.M. Sosik. 2005. New approaches and technologies for observing harmful algal blooms. Oceanography 18(2):210–227, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2005.55.