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Causes of Harmful Algal Blooms and Toxicity - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
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NCCOS is striving to identify the mechanisms involved in mediating changes and shifts in HAB abundance, distribution, and toxicity in order to develop ...
Ciguatera Fish Poisoning: Identifying Toxic Species
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/ciguatera-fish-poisoning-identifying-toxic-species/
Currently, there is no easy method for measuring CFP toxins. We are evaluating screening methods for CFP cells, if these cells can be used to identify ...
Prevalence of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins in Marine Food Webs of Prince ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/prevalence-of-paralytic-shellfish-toxins-in-marine-food-webs-of-prince-william-sound-and-kachemak-bay-alaska/
This 2.5-year project investigates the transfer of PSP toxins through the marine food web via focused sampling efforts in Kachemak Bay and Prince ...
Toxin Detection Technologies - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal ...
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Toxin Detection Technologies NCCOS uses three detection strategies to accurately measure algal toxins despite the unique challenges. Our scientists ...
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science - NCCOS
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Harmful algal blooms (HABs) occur when algae—simple plants that live in the sea and freshwater—grow out of control and sometimes produce toxins ...
Azaspiracid: An Emerging Algal Toxin - NCCOS - NCCOS Coastal Science ...
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Azaspiracids are a group of algal toxins responsible for the human illness known as azaspiracid shellfish poisoning (AZP), first encountered in ...
Harmonizing Methods to Determine Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning Toxins ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/harmonizing-methods-to-determine-diarrhetic-shellfish-poisoning-toxins-for-improved-shellfish-safety/
Diarrhetic shellfish poisoning (DSP) toxins produced by the dinoflagellate Dinophysis can cause severe gastrointestinal illness in humans. Dinophysis ...
Improving Tools for Monitoring Multiple HAB Toxins at the Land-Sea ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/tools-monitoring-hab-toxins-land-sea-interface-california/
The impacts of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) toxins are an emerging public health and environmental issue in brackish and marine ecosystems, yet ...
Expanding ISSC Validated Options for Monitoring Diarrhetic Shellfish ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/expanding-issc-validated-options-monitoring-diarrhetic-shellfish-poison-toxins/
DSP toxins pose a substantial economic threat to shellfish industries globally, and present a major food safety issue for shellfish consumers ...
Advancing the Receptor Binding Assay for Multi-Species Monitoring of ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/advancing-the-receptor-binding-assay-for-multi-species-monitoring-of-paralytic-shellfish-poisoning/
Paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) are produced by some types of harmful algal blooms. Shellfish can accumulate these toxins, causing severe illness or ...
NCCOS-developed Method for Toxins Detection Approved for Regulatory ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/nccos-developed-method-toxins-detection-approved-regulatory-testing-shellfish-u-s/
The NCCOS-led effort to see this method through to fruition began in the 1990s when NCCOS scientists were charged with developing reliable testing ...
Rapid, Portable, Multiplexed Detection of Harmful Algal Toxins in the ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/rapid-portable-multiplexed-detection-of-harmful-algal-toxins-in-the-great-lakes/
The delay of laboratory analysis can unnecessarily expose people to toxins while testing is being conducted. Also, performing multiple separate tests ...
ECOHAB - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
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The uptake and depuration of toxins in commercial and subsistence seafoods and important prey species, including toxin biotransformation and fate; The ...
Oregon Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Outbreak Prompts Rapid Response
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NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) Event Response Program awarded $6,000 to the University of ...
Robotic, Underwater Sensor for Harmful Algal Bloom Toxins
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This robotic, underwater sensor provides fast and accurate measurements of harmful toxins associated with marine algal blooms. Bloom toxicity is one ...
Reviews of Our Current Understanding of Harmful Dinoflagellates ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/reviews-of-our-current-understanding-of-harmful-dinoflagellates-published/
These toxins have been characterized both in the laboratory and in the field and have hemolytic, ichthyotoxic, and cytotoxic properties. Research has ...
NOAA Aids Efforts to Manage Risks from Lipophilic Shellfish Toxins in ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/noaa-aids-efforts-to-manage-risks-from-lipophilic-shellfish-toxins-in-washington/
MERHAB Azadinium sampling in Puget Sound and the Washington outer coast. Sampling sites for twice-monthly mussel and SPATT deployment plus weekly ...
Algal Toxins Found in U.S. Seabirds - NCCOS - National Centers for ...
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Toxic thresholds for all HAB toxins that may affect seabirds are not currently known. The toxin levels leading to seabird mortality are unknown and it ...
Gulf of Mexico Algae Shield Themselves with Toxins When Hungry
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A photograph of the microscopic algae Karenia brevis, the plant responsible for toxic red tides in the Gulf of Mexico. A species of algae responsible ...
Monitoring and Event Response for Harmful Algal Blooms in the Lower ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/project/monitoring-event-response-harmful-algal-blooms-lower-great-lakes/
MERHAB-LGL established many techniques now in standard use for analysis of freshwater cyanobacterial toxins. The MERHAB-LGL toxin response lab ...