Understanding Algal Blooms: State of the Science Virtual Conference 2021

The Understanding Algal Blooms: State of the Science Virtual Conference will highlight current scientific knowledge related to algal blooms. Research and outreach leaders will present findings from recent studies and identify important areas of uncertainty.

Expected audiences include academic researchers, state and federal agencies and the agricultural community interested in the latest algal bloom science and technology, with an expected audience largely from Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. Members of the academic research community, state and federal agencies and the agricultural community are especially encouraged to attend.

Research and outreach leaders will present findings from recent studies and identify important areas of uncertainty. Specific topics will include nutrients and processes behind algal blooms, new tools to track and predict algal blooms, latest progress from Ohio agencies managing water quality and algal blooms, and impacts of manure and stream processes on nutrient loads.

0:00 Introduction & Agency Remarks
10:35 Where do we go from here? Mitigating Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms in a World Facing Human Nutrient Over-Enrichment and Climate Change (Hans Paerl, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
53:18 Nitrogen as a driver of HABs: is N availability the missing key to modeling microcystins? (Silvia Elena Newell, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wright State University)
1:21:48 Microcystins in Lake Erie: Working towards developing a toxin concentration forecast (Justin Chaffin, Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Laboratory, The Ohio State University)
1:52: 07 We can’t do it alone! Linking new technology and stakeholder-engaged science to monitor harmful algal bloom toxins in western Lake Erie (Tim Davis, Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University)
2:23:17 Phosphorus losses: sources, pathways, and tradeoffs (Deanna Osmond, Crop and Soil Science, North Carolina State University)
2:58: 34 Ohio EPA overview of TMDL Status and 9-element (Tiffani Kavalec, Division of Surface Water, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency)
3:23:43 Phosphorus sources, forms, and abundance as a function of streamflow and field conditions in Maumee River Basin streams (Tanja Williamson, Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Water Science Center, United States Geological Survey)
3:49:00 H2Ohio Program Update; Producer Interest, Practice Implementation, and Future Plans (Terry Mescher, H2Ohio Western Lake Erie Basin Program, Ohio Department of Agriculture)