This newsletter includes: Volunteers cleaned nearly 15 tons of trash from local waterways. S.C. Sea Grant Consortium extension specialists organized a workshop on harmful algal blooms. The executive director of the S.C. Sea Grant Consortium was named to the Executive Committee of the Board of Oceans and Atmosphere of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges.
Harmful Algal Blooms
Inside Sea Grant Newsletter – Summer 2000
This newsletter includes: Dr. Leroy Davis was elected as S.C. Sea Grant board chair. Oyster shell research lead to a new fertilizer enhancer. The Center for Sustainable Living was featured on national television. A new red tide was discovered.
S.C. Task Group on Harmful Algae Newsletter – Spring 2005
The Southeast Phytoplankton Monitoring Network (SEPMN) grew from a program with volunteers sampling in coastal South Carolina to expanding its coverage along the Georgia and North Carolina coasts.
S.C. Task Group on Harmful Algae Newsletter – Winter 2005
The CDC funded a multi-faceted approach to harmful algal blooms (HABs) in South Carolina, including a system to identify people with a high risk of exposure to potentially harmful algae, real-time remote monitoring, and outreach programs.
S.C. Task Group on Harmful Algae Newsletter – Spring 2004
In 2003, a massive bloom of Heterosigma akashiwo created a red tide phenomenon that extended from inside Bulls Bay to about five miles offshore. About 10,000 dead fish were discovered, but it was not clear whether the deaths were caused by toxicity from the algae, exposure to low salinity waters, or gills clogged by the bloom.
S.C. Task Group on Harmful Algae Newsletter – Spring 2003
Scientists studied bald eagle deaths in the Southeast due to avianvacuolar myelinopathy, or AVM, and a possible link between the condition and the presence of the blue-green algae growing on Hydrilla in man-made reservoirs.
S.C. Task Group on Harmful Algae Newsletter – Fall 2002
Researchers found that nearly half of 45 stormwater ponds on the South Carolina coast that were tested contained harmful algae in “bloom” proportions. Other efforts to study and monitor harmful algal blooms are also discussed.
S.C. Task Group on Harmful Algae Newsletter – Spring 2002
A brief history of early coordination efforts around harmful algal blooms, and a detailed description of the various human health impacts of HABs: types of poisoning, health conditions, and classes of toxic algae.
S.C. Task Group on Harmful Algae Newsletter – Fall 2001
The CDC funded research into the possibility of risks posed by harmful algal blooms in residential stormwater ponds, including attempting to identify risk factors linked to coastal development and human health impacts.
S.C. Task Group on Harmful Algae Newsletter – Summer 2001
This newsletter details a grant awarded to the Task Group on Harmful Algae to assess environmental impacts of red tides, Pfiesteria, and toxic algae, as well as efforts by students and local residents to aid in monitoring for HABs.