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This year's algae bloom in western Lake Erie was moderate compared to previous years. It appeared June 24, its earliest since monitoring began, and its late-summer peak covered about 660 square miles — larger than some previous years, but not nearly as thick as some other blooms.
A team of scientists at the University of Michigan are searching for pharmaceutical drugs in Lake Erie's harmful algae bloom. Here's what to know.
Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) bloom on Lake Erie (United States) in 2009. These kinds of algae can cause harmful algal bloom. A harmful algal bloom (HAB), or excessive algae growth, is an algal bloom that causes negative impacts to other organisms by production of natural algae-produced toxins, water deoxygenation, mechanical damage to other organisms, or by other means.
Scientists have bumped up their Lake Erie Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) severity projections, with green algae visible in parts of the lake.
Harmful algae blooms, where toxins are released, are a public health threat and severely damage water quality in parts of the Great Lakes, like Lake Erie and the lower bay of Green Bay.
He is the founding director of the Great Lakes Center for Fresh Waters and Human Health. His specialty is microbial ecology; his research has focused on the health of the Laurentian Great Lakes, particularly the harmful algal bloom-forming populations in Lake Erie since the early 2000s.
Lake Erie is a favorite for divers since there are many shipwrecks, perhaps 1,400 to 8,000 according to one estimate, [38] of which about 270 are confirmed shipwreck locations. [38] Research into shipwrecks has been organized by the Peachman Lake Erie Shipwreck Research Center, located on the grounds of the Great Lakes Historical Society. [38]
The NOAA is predicting a moderate to larger-than-moderate algal bloom in Lake Erie this summer, which can make people and pets sick if exposed to it.