GLIN==> NOAA-funded Study on How Phosphorus Pollution Drives Toxic Blooms of Blue-Green Algae in the Great Lakes

NOAA-funded Study on How Phosphorus Pollution Drives Toxic Blooms of
Blue-Green Algae in the Great Lakes

The project - led by Christopher Gobler, an associate professor at Stony
Brook University, in collaboration with New York Sea Grant's James Ammerman
and Chuck O'Neill - will focus on the algal species Microcystis, which
frequently causes massive and unsightly blooms in Lake Erie and Lake
Ontario.

Using new information about how Microcystis genes regulate uptake and
utilization of different chemical forms of phosphorus, the researchers will
develop new tools to detect different phosphorus forms in the field. They
will then use these tools during natural blooms to determine which kinds of
phosphorus are most instrumental in stimulating bloom formation. Upon
completion of the project, investigators plan to develop an outreach
campaign based on their findings.

For more on this story, see:
http://www.seagrant.sunysb.edu/article.asp?ArticleID=525

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New York Sea Grant is one of over 30 university-based coastal
research/education programs funded through NOAA’s National Sea Grant
College Program.


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