2020 Virginia Annual HAB Task Force Meeting

The 2020 HAB Taskforce Meeting was held virtually on January 15, 2021. The meeting hosted approximately 100 participants (over 150 invited) throughout the day by the meeting’s host, Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Topics included a summary of seasonal marine and freshwater bloom monitoring and response events, as well as demos and overviews of remote sensing products by NOAA, NASA, and USGS.  You may download a PDF copy of each presenter’s slides by right clicking on the hyperlinks below. The meeting was recorded and may be viewed by clicking on the “Meeting Recording” below.

Meeting Documents

Meeting Agenda

Mulholland Lab Marine Recap 2020

Margie Mulholland, Professor, Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, ODU

Reece Lab Marine Recap 2020

Kim Reece, Chair, Department of Aquatic Health Sciences, VIMS

 Marine Biotoxin Recap 2020

Todd Egerton, Marine Science Supervisor, VDH

 Smith Lab Marine Recap 2020 (Ayache) (Huang)

Nour Ayache & Wade Huang, Post-Doctoral Research Associates, VIMS

 Phytoplankton Analysis Lab Freshwater Recap 2020

Leah Gibala-Smith, Supervisor, ODU
Freshwater Advisories Recap 2020

Margaret Smigo, Waterborne Hazards Program    Coordinator, VDH

 Update on CyAN and Demo for using Bay/Lake Anna beta layers to evaluate HAB activity

Michelle Tomlinson, Oceanographer, National Ocean Service, NOAA

 NASA Earth Science perspective: global to local efforts to inform public health decision makers

Stephanie Schollaert Uz, Applied Sciences Manager, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

 Discrimination of phytoplankton groups in the Chesapeake Bay using a hyperspectral, bio-optical algorithm

Morgaine McKibben, NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, Universities Space Research Association/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

 USGS HAB Science in Virginia

Karen Rice, Research Hydrologist, Virginia and West Virginia Water Science Center, USGS

Meeting Recording

For questions about the HAB Task Force, please contact the VDH Division of Shellfish Safety and Waterborne Hazards  at 804-864-8182.
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