Alaska HAB Network

Monthly Calls

Join us every second Thursday of the month for HAB updates from around the state!

Next meeting: February 11th, 2020 9:30-10:30am
Email Thomas to be added to the mailing list and get the zoom link.

Notes from the previous meeting can be found here.

Monitoring Programs

• Alaska Sea Grant – Bering Strait
• Alaska Sea Grant – Kodiak Archipelego
• Aleutian Pribilof Islands Assoc. 
• Kachemak Bay NERR
• Native Village of Kotzebue
• NOAA Beaufort Lab
• NOAA Kasitsna Bay Lab
• North Slope Borough
• Southeast Alaska Tribal Ocean Research (SEATOR)

Current HABs Alerts

• Dust containing minerals drives algae growth on Greenland glaciers, leading to faster melt 1/27/21
• Algal blooms on Antarctic snow likely to accelerate snow melt 1/13/21
• Karenia brevis (warm water dinoflagellate) leads to HAB event in Florida causing respiratory irritation and fish kills – researchers seeking volunteers to study effects on brain 12/28/20
• Massive die-off and health impact in Kamchatka (Russia) linked to HABs 11/18/20
• PSP death in Dutch Harbor; State of Alaska issues shellfish alert 7/15/20
• Bering Strait/Chukchi Sea: Alexandrium, Saxitoxin and Clams 2018-2019

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