NOAA backs new national effort to predict, respond to algae blooms

Harmful algae blooms that shut down fisheries and sicken people are the target of new research funding from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) across the nation.

NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science will spend USD 10.2 million (EUR 9.2 million) in fiscal year 2019 to fund studies into harmful algae blooms – by now so common that they have their own shorthand name of HAB.

About USD 8.4 million (EUR 7.5 million) of that will cover the first year of new three- to five-year projects, and USD 1.78 million (EUR 1.6 million) will go to three-year projects already in process. Funded under existing NOAA programs, new projects will begin in Alaska, California, Chesapeake Bay, Florida, the Great Lakes, New England, and the Pacific Northwest…

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