Cyanoscope - EPA collaborative partnership on monitoring harmful algal blooms
This program started at the request of the New England State environmental agencies and their efforts to determine how best to monitor and manage harmful algal and cyanobacteria blooms. This initial project evolved into a three-tiered program to educate people on the problem, how to monitor and provide surveillance to better understand the dynamics of harmful algal blooms (HABs), and the collection of key data to assist in determining trends, hotspots, and other important data surrounding HABs.
Project URL: https://cyanos.org/
Geographic Scope: National
Project Status: Active - recruiting volunteers
Participation Tasks: Classification or tagging, Data entry, Identification, Observation, Photography, Sample analysis, Specimen/sample collection,
Start Date: 1/1/2013
Project Contact: snook.hilary@epa.gov
Federal Government Sponsor:
Other Federal Government Sponsor:
Fields of Science: Ecology and environment, Ocean/water and marine
Intended Outcomes: Cyanoscope provides opportunity to identify taxa within a waterbody of interest, learn about that taxa, submit images, and locational information to a centralized database, and view geographical distributions of various taxa.