Research on Kenya's Lake Victoria's Winam Gulf, a potential model for Lake Erie, reveals year-round harmful algal blooms dominated by cyanobacteria like Dolichospermum, Microcystis, and Planktothrix.

Languages: English. There are some alarming parallels between the harmful algal blooms (HABs) in Kenya's Lake Victoria and those in Lake Erie, a new study has found. By studying the Winam Gulf ...

Lake Erie, had something concerning. In August 2024, NASA’s Landsat-9 satellite captured a huge, bright green algae bloom spreading across part of Lake Erie. This bloom covered nearly 320 square ...

To try to understand how harmful algal blooms might evolve in Lake Erie in a warming climate, University of Michigan scientists helped conduct a survey of cyanobacteria in a gulf of Kenya's Lake ...

The Winam Gulf of Kenya's Lake Victoria, a gulf with similar limnological properties and therefore could potentially be a model for Lake Erie in a warming climate, experiences harmful algal blooms ...

Lake Erie has long been plagued by harmful algal blooms an environmental issue that threatens not only the health of the lake but also the well-being of surrounding communities. These blooms ...

Harmful algal blooms, as seen here in a 2017 satellite view of Lake Erie, threaten drinking water and wildlife. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory When populations of tiny aquatic organisms called ...

a gulf with similar limnological properties and therefore could potentially be a model for Lake Erie in a warming climate, experiences harmful algal blooms year-round. A greenish tint to the water of ...

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 ...

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