HAB Hunter Article Swipe
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· 2020
· Open Access
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.32393/csme.2020.1205
· OA: W4213292215
Harmful algal blooms, or HABs, are destructive ecological phenomena caused by unchecked growth of specific species of microbes present in fresh, marine and brackish water environments.HABs deprive areas of oxygen and can produce toxins that cause animal, human and environmental harm: an issue that is being reported with increasing frequency as ocean temperature and nutrient concentrations rise due to human impacts.Forecasting and HAB monitoring systems are essential to mitigate their devastating economic and environmental impacts.However, it is extremely difficult to predict the presence of HABs ahead of time.Deployable genomic-based sensor technologies are accurate, but they are currently large, require specialists to operate and are cost prohibitive for scaling to the necessary spatial and temporal ranges.
