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HAB-Related Links

Visit here for links to sites related to red tide and other microalgae.

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Select a topic below for a list of sites you may find of interest:

	General Information	Community Involvement
	Current Red Tide Status	Government Agencies
	Current Research	Research Institutes
	Blue-Green Algae (Cyanophytes)	Culture Collections
	Diatoms	Journals
	Dinoflagellates	Societies
	Macroalgae
	Pfiesteria	Other Interesting Sites
	Shellfish

If you know of a site that you would like included on our list, please contact us at redtide@MYFWC.com.

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GENERAL INFORMATION

Bigelow Laboratory, Toxic and Harmful Algal Blooms
http://www.bigelow.org/hab/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Studies Branch, Harmful Algal Blooms
http://www.cdc.gov/hab/default.htm

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Red Tide Page
http://research.myfwc.com/features/default.asp?id=1018

HARRNESS, 2005 National Plan for Algal Toxins and Harmful Algal Blooms
http://www.esa.org/HARRNESS

Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History (Canada)
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/poison/default.asp

Phytoplankton in the Skagerrak-Kattegat (Sweden)
http://www.marbot.gu.se/SSS/SSShome.htm

Scripps Institution of Oceanography
http://sio.ucsd.edu/

Smithsonian Institution, Department of Botany Home Page
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany/

Texas Parks and Wildlife, Harmful Algal Blooms in Texas
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/landwater/water/environconcerns/hab

The Harmful Algae Page
http://www.whoi.edu/redtide/

The Plankton Net
http://www.biosci.ohiou.edu/faculty/currie/ocean/

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CURRENT RED TIDE STATUS

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, State Red Tide and HAB Monitoring
http://research.myfwc.com/features/category_sub.asp?id=4434

Mote Marine Laboratory, Red Tide Update
http://www.mote.org/index.php?src=gendocs&link=Red%20Tide%20Update

Texas Parks and Wildlife, Red Tide in Texas
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/landwater/water/environconcerns/hab/redtide/

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CURRENT RESEARCH

ECOHAB: Florida
http://research.myfwc.com/features/category_sub.asp?id=1918

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Current Projects
http://research.myfwc.com/features/category_main.asp?id=1493

Mote Marine Laboratory, Phytoplankton Ecology Program
http://www.mote.org/index.php?src=gendocs&link=Phytoplankton%20Ecology&submenu=PROGRAMS

NOAA Coastal Services Center, Harmful Algal Bloom Forecasting System
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/habf/

NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Harmful Algal Blooms
http://www.cop.noaa.gov/stressors/extremeevents/hab/welcome.html

NOAA News (2/22/2001): National Assessment of Harmful Algal Blooms in Florida Waters
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s584.htm

USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Western Gulf of Maine Red Tide Project
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/modeling/wgulf/wgulf.html

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BLUE-GREEN ALGAE (CYANOBACTERIA)

CyanoBase: The Genome Database for Cyanobacteria
http://www.kazusa.or.jp/cyano/

CyanoNews
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~elhaij/cyanonews/

Cyanosite: A Webserver for Cyanobacterial Research
http://www-cyanosite.bio.purdue.edu/

Florida Department of Health, Blue-Green Algae
http://www.doh.state.fl.us/environment/community/aquatic/cyanobacteria.htm

University of California Museum of Paleontology, Introduction to the Cyanobacteria
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/cyanointro.html

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DIATOMS

California Academy of Sciences, Department of Invertebrate Zoology & Geology, Diatom Collection
http://www.calacademy.org/research/diatoms/

Canada Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Gulf Region, Domoic Acid and Pseudo-nitzschia References
http://www.glf.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/os/aes-sae/dapr-radp/index-e.php?to_doE=refs&subject_cdE=3&rep_idE=r1

Indiana University, Biology Department, Diatom Home Page
http://www.indiana.edu/~diatom/diatom.html

International Society for Diatom Research
http://www.isdr.org

University of California Museum of Paleontology, Introduction to Bacillariophyta (The Diatoms)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/chromista/bacillariophyta.html

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DINOFLAGELLATES

University of Calgary, Dinoflagellates
http://www.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae/palynology/dinoflagellates/dinoflagellates.html

University of California Museum of Paleontology, Introduction to the Dinoflagellata
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/protista/dinoflagellata.html

U.S. Geological Survey, Dinoflagellates
http://geology.er.usgs.gov/paleo/dinoflag.shtml

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MACROALGAE

University of Miami, National Center for Coral Reef Research
http://www.ncoremiami.org/abm/proto_macro.htm

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PFIESTERIA

Center for Applied Aquatic Ecology, North Carolina State University
http://www.ncsu.edu/wq/harmfulalgae-estuarine/dinoflagellates/pfiesteria/index.html

Mid-Atlantic Sea Grant Programs
http://www.pfiesteria.seagrant.org/

Virginia Institute of Marine Science
http://www.vims.edu/pfiesteria/

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SHELLFISH

Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Aquaculture, Shellfish Harvesting Management
http://www.floridaaquaculture.com/SEAS/SEAS_mngmt.htm

GeneProbes.org, DNA Probes and Shellfish Biotoxin Management
http://www.geneprobes.org

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COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Red Tide Alliance
http://www.redtideonline.com/

Solutions to Avoid Red Tide (S.T.A.R.T.)
http://www.start1.com/

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Gulf Ecology Division, Aquatic Mortality Tracking
http://www.epa.gov/ged/r05_dw.htm

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GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Watershed Management Program
http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/watersheds/index.htm

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
http://myfwc.com/

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) Harmful Algal Bloom Programme (UNESCO)
http://ioc.unesco.org/hab/default.htm

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
http://www.noaa.gov/

NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/

NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/

NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center
http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/

Ocean.US
http://www.ocean.us

U.S. Department of Agriculture
http://www.usda.gov/

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
http://www.epa.gov/

U.S. EPA Gulf Ecology Division
http://www.epa.gov/ged/

U.S. EPA Gulf of Mexico Program
http://www.epa.gov/gmpo/

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
http://www.usgs.gov

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RESEARCH INSTITUTES

Cawthron Institute (New Zealand)
http://www.cawthron.org.nz/

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
http://research.myfwc.com

Florida State University, Department of Oceanography
http://ocean.fsu.edu/~www/

Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution
http://www.hboi.edu/divisions.html

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
http://www.mbari.org/

Mote Marine Laboratory
http://www.mote.org/

National Association of Marine Laboratories
http://www.naml.org/

North Carolina State University, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
http://www.meas.ncsu.edu/

Rutgers University, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
http://marine.rutgers.edu/

University of Miami, Marine and Freshwater Biomedical Sciences Center
http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/groups/niehs/science/toxins.jsp

University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Department of Biology and Marine Biology
http://www.uncwil.edu/bio/

University of Southern Mississippi, Department of Marine Science
http://www.marine.usm.edu/

University of South Florida, College of Marine Science
http://www.marine.usf.edu/

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CULTURE COLLECTIONS

CSIRO Microalgae Research Centre
http://www.marine.csiro.au/microalgae/

Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton
http://ccmp.bigelow.org/

University of Toronto Culture Collection of Algae and Cyanobacteria
http://www.botany.utoronto.ca/utcc/index.html

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JOURNALS

Journal of Applied Phycology
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0921-8971

Harmful Algae
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622278/description

Harmful Algae News
http://ioc.unesco.org/hab/news.htm

Journal of Phycology
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0022-3646

Marine Ecology Progress Series
http://www.int-res.com/journals/meps/index.html

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SOCIETIES

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
http://aslo.org/

Australasian Society for Phycology and Aquatic Botany
http://members.iinet.net.au/~philip.orr/ASPAB_new_site/

Hungarian Algological Society
http://falco.elte.hu/MIKRO/MAT.htm

International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae
http://www.issha.org/

Phycological Society of America
http://www.psaalgae.org/

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OTHER INTERESTING SITES

Maryland Environmental Monitoring for Public Access and Community Tracking (EMPACT) Program
http://aquaticpath.umd.edu/empact

Monterey Bay Aquarium
http://www.mbayaq.org/

University of California, The Bioluminescence Web Page
http://lifesci.ucsb.edu/~biolum/organism/dinohome.html

University of Maryland Aquatic Pathobiology Center
http://aquaticpath.umd.edu

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, The "Bad Bug Book"
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/intro.html

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