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Competitive Research and Funding on HABs, Water Quality, and Nutrient
Reduction from HABHRCA Member Agencies
Environmental Protection Agency
Center for Environmental Research
•	Funding Sources for Managing Cvanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms and Cvanotoxins in
Drinking Water
•	EPA State Revolving Funds
NIH, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Human Health
USDA, National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Centers for Oceans and
AFRI Education and Literacy Initiative
National Science Foundation
•	Biological Oceanography Program's Funding Opportunities
•	Dear Colleague Letter: FY 2017 Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems
fINFEWSI Funding Opportunity on Nitrogen. Phosphorus, and Water
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Monitoring and Event Response fMERHAB
Office for Coastal Management's Competitive
NCCOS National Centers for Coastal Ocean Researcl
Sea Grant Projects. Impacts and Accomplishments
Also see Ohio Sea Grant funding opportunities.
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This newsletter was created by Dr. Lesley V. D'Anglada, Office of Water, U.S.EPA
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WEBINAR: Using Advanced Water Quality Monitoring Technologies to
Address Water Pollution on May 5, 2017 at 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. EST
•	Hosted by Meridian Institute in collaboration with Pisces Foundation
•	The webinar will cover merging data collection technologies from satellite remote sensing
to citizen science crowdsourcing.
•	Speakers and presentations are: Dr. Robert Shuchman fTechnolooies for Multi-Layered
Water Quality Data Gathering); Dr. Erin Hestir and Dr. Erin Urouhart fCurrent Capabilities
and Limitations of Remote Sensing for Water Quality and Related Land Use Monitoring);
Jeff Allenbv fUsing Land Cover Mapping to Address Sources of Water Pollution in the
Chesapeake Bay Watershed); Hilary Snook (Emerging Tools for Detecting Harmful Algal
Blooms - Cyanobacteria Collaborative Monitoring Network); and Dr. Blake Schaeffer
(Emerging Tools for Detecting Harmful Algal Blooms - Cyanobacteria Assessment Network
(CyAN) Project)
•	Please contact Liz Duxbury at Meridian Institute (lduxbury@merid.org or 970.296.3057)
Canada and Ontario Extend Public Consultations on Draft Action Plan to
Reduce Harmful Algal Blooms in Lake Erie
This is to inform you that the public comment period for the Canada-Ontario Draft Action
Plan for Lake Erie has been extended by an additional 15 days. The new deadline to submit
comments is Wednesday, May 24, 2017. Please submit your comments through Canada's
engagement platform at www.jetstaIklakeerie.ca.
Carper's Pond, April 2017
Riverbend Park, Great Falls, VA
UPCOMING EVENTS
Workshops
OSU's Workshops
Dealing with Cyanobacteria
Algal Toxins and Taste & Odor
Compounds
August 7-8. 2017
August 9-10. 2017
Algae ID Workshop
August 7-8. 2017
August 9-10. 2017
Taxonomic ID of Harmful
Alaae in U.S. Marine
Waters
August 13-23, 2017
East Boothbay, ME
Ecology of Diatoms and
Alaal Blooms
May to August, 2017
Iowa Lakeside Laboratory
Conferences
IAGLR
May 15-19, 2017
Detroit, Michigan
NHDES's Drinking Water
Source Protection
Conference - REGISTER
May 18, 2017
Concord, NH
USA Water Conference
Toxins, Treatments and
Tomorrow's Technologies
May 31st - June 1, 2017
Akron, OH
Gordon Research
Conference Biotoxins
June 18-23, 2017
Easton, MA
9th Symposium on
Harmful Algae -ABSTRACTS
until June 31st
November 11-17, 2017
Baltimore, MD

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HABs, BEACH CLOSURES and HEALTH ADVISORIES, APRIL 2017
j\ Oregon: South Umpqua River - Permanent Advisory
— California: Domoic Acid Press Release and Health Advisories
Recently Published Articles
Adsorption of Ten Microcvstin Congeners to Common Laboratorv-Ware Is Solvent and Surface Dependent
Stefan Altaner, Jonathan Puddick, Susanna A, Wood, and Daniel R. Dietrich. Toxins, April 2017, Vol, 9, p.129-144.
Toxic effects of microcvstin-LR on the development of prostate in mice
Hui Zhang, Lihui Wang, Song Shen, Chenchen Wang, Zou Xiang, Xiaodong Han, Dongmei Li. Toxicology, Volume 380, 1 April 2017,
Pages 50-61.
Transfer, tissue distribution and bioaccumulation of microcvstin-LR in the phvtoplanktivorous and carnivorous fish in
Anzali wetland, with potential health risks to humans
Soheila Rezaitabar, Abbas Esmaili Sari, Nader Bahramifar, Zohreh Ramezanpour, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 575, 1
January 2017, p. 1130-1138.
Toxicology of microcvstins with reference to cases of human intoxications and epidemiological investigations of
exposures to cvanobacteria and cvanotoxins
Zorica Svircev, Damjana Drobac, Nada Tokodi, Biljana Mijovic, Geoffrey Codd and Jussi Meriluoto. 2017, Archives of Toxicology, 91,
p. 621-650.
Screening of BMAA producing cvanobacteria in cultured isolates and in in situ blooms
Marta Monteiro, Margarida Costa, Cristiana Moreira, Vitor M. Vasconcelos, Mafalda S. Baptista. 2016. J. Appl. Phycol. 29:p. 879.
A review of the phvlooenv. ecology and toxin production of bloom-forming Aphanizomenon spp. and related species
within the Nostocales fcvanobacteria)
Samuel Cires, Andreas Ballot. 2016, Harmful Algae, 54, p. 21-43.
New SFE-LC-MS/MS method for simultaneous determination of multi-class cvanobacterial and algal toxins
Sevasti-Kiriaki Zervou, Christophoros Christophoridis, Triantafyllos Kaioudis, Theodoras M. Triantis, Anastasia Hiskia. 2017, Journal of
Hazardous Materials, 323A, p. 56-66.
Understanding the kev ecological traits of cvanobacteria as a basis for their management and control in changing
lakes
Evanthia Mantzouki, Petra M. Visser, Myriarn Bormans, Bas W. Ibelings. 2016, Aquat. Ecol. 50, p. 333-350.
Cvanotoxins: Which detection technigue for an optimum risk assessment?
Virginie Gaget, Melody Lau, Barbara Sendall, Suzanne Froscio, Andrew R. Humpage, Water Research, Volume 118, 1 July 2017,
p.227-238
Taxonomv-free molecular diatom index for high-throughput eDNA biomonitoring
Laure Apotheloz-Perret-Gentil, Arielle Cordonier, Frangois Straub, Jennifer Iseli, Philippe Esling, Jan Pawiowski. Molecular Ecology
Resources, 2017
Ocean warming since 1982 has expanded the niche of toxic algal blooms in the North Atlantic and North Pacific
oceans
Christopher J. Gobler, Owen M. Doherty, Theresa K. Hattenrath Lehmann, Andrew W. Griffith, Yoonja Kang, and R. Wayne Litaker.
PNAS, April 2017.
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Useful Resources
J SWAMP's California Freshwater Harmful Algal Bloom Field Guide
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