Joseph Bishop - NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory /tag/joseph-bishop/ Preparing the nation for change by studying the ocean, earth & atmosphere Mon, 26 Jul 2021 14:39:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NOAA_logo_512x512-150x150.png Joseph Bishop - NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory /tag/joseph-bishop/ 32 32 Increasing Red Tide Sampling off the West Florida Shelf /increasing-red-tide-sampling/ Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:49:00 +0000 /?p=19556 Scientists are heading to sea on the R/V Walton Smith to sample areas where red tide blooms are commonly present off the west Florida coast. Karenia brevis, the organism that causes red tide, forms blooms when elevated concentrations (>100,000 cells per liter) are present in the water. K. brevis produces toxins called brevetoxins that can cause massive fish kills, weaken or kill marine mammals, and (if the toxin becomes aerosolized and inhaled) cause respiratory distress in humans and marine mammals. The team of scientists will be comprehensively sampling a series of transects along the West Florida Shelf.

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