Weekly HAB Bulletin -Original (NOT USED ANYMORE)
Our HAB Bulletins provide information on the potential development of toxic and/or harmful phytoplankton.
Browse our latest weekly HAB Bulletins below:
- 2015 Week 50 Irish HAB Bulletin PDF 2.2 MB
- 2015 Week 47 Irish HAB Bulletin PDF 2.6 MB
- 2015 Week 45 Irish HAB Bulletin PDF 2.3 MB
- 2015 Week 43 Irish HAB Bulletin PDF 2.4 MB
- 2015 Week 42 Irish HAB Bulletin PDF 2.1 MB
- 2015 Week 41 Irish HAB Bulletin PDF 2.4 MB
- 2015 Week 40 Irish HAB Bulletin PDF 3.6 MB
- 2015 Week 39 Irish HAB Bulletin PDF 3.4 MB
- 2015 Week 36 Irish HAB Bulletin PDF 2.8 MB
- 2015 Week 35 Irish HAB Bulletin PDF 2.7 MB
- 2015 Week 34 Irish HAB Bulletin PDF 2.4 MB
- 2015 Week 33 Irish HAB Bulletin PDF 2.4 MB
- 2015 Week 32 Irish HAB Bulletin PDF 2.5 MB
- 2015 Week 31 Irish HAB Bulletin PDF 2.5 MB
View daily forecast of water movement off SW coast Ireland (3-day model forecast).
Photo credits:
Source: http://www.jodc.go.jp/info/ioc_doc/Other/FINAL_GEOHAB_Eutro_corrected.pdf
- Large blooms of Karenia brevis occurred in Florida, USA during 2005, resulting in large fish kills. Photos: C. Heil.
- Foams of the haptophytes, Phaeocystis may be caused by the exudation of protein-rich foams by the algae. Photo: V. Rousseau, courtesy of the EUROHAB Science Initiative, 1999.The change in N:P ratio is related to Phaeocystis blooms in Dutch coastal waters. From Anderson et al. 2002, based on Riegman, 1995.
- Alexandrium taylori bloom, Catalan coast of Spain. Photo: M. Estrada.
- Karenia mikimotoi bloom, East China Sea, summer 2005. Photo: J. Li.
- Noctiluca bloom, Hood Canal, Washington, USA, Summer 2005. Photo: W. Palsson, WDFW.
- Dinophysis bloom in coastal Norway. Photo: Havforskningsinstituttet, Institute of Marine Research.
Source: NOAA, http://www.chbr.noaa.gov/pmn/image_gallery_bloom.aspx
- Karenia brevis 'red tide' off North Carolina coast, 1987. Photo: Unknown.
- Karenia brevis red tide off South Padre Island, coast of Texas, October 2009. Photo: Chase Fountain, Texas Department of Wildlife.
- Bloom of Noctiluca scintillans stretched for more than 20 miles along the southern California coast. Photo: PJS Franks.
- Ceratium furca Bloom: Pago Pago, American Samoa. Photo: Dr. Don Vargo.
Others:
- http://www.paparumba.org/stewards/documents/spectralwaters/spectralwaters.html - The ciliate, Myrionecta rubra, a zooplankton. June 2004, George Harbour just inshore of the Strait of Georgia, USA. Photo: C. Gronau
- http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/staff/tt/eh/optics.html - Chalk-Ex experiment a 2 km2 patch of the Gulf of Maine had 13 tons of powdered chalk added to it, in November 2001. Note the pale colour of the water either side of the ship's wake. The powdered chalk was obtained by grinding up Cretaceous-age rocks made of coccolith chalk, shipped especially from the UK. The mean particle size was about 2 microns, the same size as the haptophyte, Emiliania huxleyi coccoliths. Photo: B. Balch.
- http://oceandatacenter.ucsc.edu/PhytoGallery/HABS_redtides.html - Bioluminesent dinoflagellate bloom, California, USA. Photo: Unknown.
- http://lorenzosurfjournal.blogspot.ie/2012/01/october-3-2011-monday.html - Gonyaulax spinifera, California, Sept-Oct 2011.
- Irish Air Corps (Noctiluca and Dinophysis blooms in Irish waters)
- ESA: satellite image of a coccolithophore bloom (Emiliania huxleyi) off west coast Ireland June 2006 (MERIS).