Developing a Harmful Algal Bloom Action Plan for Alaska

Dena'ina Center
Anchorage, Alaska
December 8–9, 2016

This workshop has ended.

Contact: Ginny Eckert, gleckert@alaska.edu • (907) 796-5450

HAB Workshop Agenda (Google Doc)
HAB Progress White Papers (PDF)

This two day workshop, cosponsored by Alaska Sea Grant and the Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS), has the goal of developing an action plan for harmful algal bloom (HAB) monitoring, event response, outreach and research in Alaska. The first day is intended to engage a broad audience, including resource managers, shellfish growers, researchers, and anyone affected or interested in HABs. This first day will include presentations to provide an overview and summary of HAB-related activities around Alaska as well as breakout groups to develop an action plan related to monitoring and event response. The second day will engage a targeted audience that is interested in developing an action plan for HAB research, data sharing, outreach and education. Participants may register for the first day only or for both days. Registration is free.

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HAB monitoring and event response in Washington — Jerry Borchert, WDOH
Database platforms for HAB monitoring data — Stacey Buckelew, Axiom Data Science
Lessons from HAB event responses in Alaska — Louisa Castrodale, ADHSS
Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning in the Aleutian Islands — Melissa Good, UAF/Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program
Ocean observing network activities – leveraging for sustainability — Carol Janzen, AOOS
Addressing PSP on Kodiak Island — Julie Matweyou, UAF/Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program
HAB monitoring and research in Arctic Alaska — Gay Sheffield, UAF/Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program
Alaska HABs in the national context — Marc Suddleson, NOAA
HAB monitoring and research in Southeast Alaska — Liz Tobin, UAF and Chris Whitehead, STA
HAB monitoring and research in Southcentral Alaska — Catie Bursch, Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

Additional information

Workshop location: Dena’ina Center, 600 W 7th Ave, Anchorage, AK 99501

Lodging: Room reservations at the Hotel Captain Cook can be made on a space-available basis for December 7–10, 2016. For the discounted rate, please call (907) 276-6000 or toll free (800) 843-1950 and reference the Harmful Algal Bloom Workshop.

For more information and additional resources on HABs, see Overview: Harmful Algal Blooms in Alaska.

View the national HABs/hypoxia action plan, Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia Comprehensive Research Plan and Action Strategy: an Interagency Report (PDF).

For a recent California HAB report see Framing the Scientific Opportunities on Harmful Algal Blooms and California Fisheries (PDF).

Steering Committee

Ginny Eckert (chair), College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences and Alaska Sea Grant, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Catie Bursch, Kachemak Bay Research Reserve
Louisa Castrodale, Alaska Division of Public Health
Julie Matweyou, Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Molly McCammon, Alaska Ocean Observing System
Rose Robinson, Kachemak Bay Research Reserve
Liz Tobin, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Chris Whitehead, Southeast Alaska Tribal Ocean Research, Sitka Tribe of Alaska

This workshop has ended.