Epilogue to the 2nd Brown Tide Conference are Aureococcus and Other Nuisance Algal Blooms Selectively Enriched by the Runoff of Turf Chemicals?

  • John McN. Sieburth
Conference paper
Part of the Coastal and Estuarine Studies book series (COASTAL, volume 35)

Abstract

Just two years after the first Brown Tide conference at Hauppauge, NY, 23 and 24 October, 1986 (Anon., 1987), it is impressive how the scientific community is filling the voids with self imposed goals. There is much diversity in goal and approach, and what redundancy there is, is very healthy as similar problems are attacked by different methodologies. An immunofluorescence approach to the study of picoplankton is being very ably conducted with exciting results by Campbell et al. (1989) for several picoplankters, and for Aureococcus alone by Anderson et al. (1989). Hargraves et al. (1989) are looking at the known phototrophic picoplankters as a group, and not limiting themselves to dominants as Paul Johnson and I have done (Sieburth and Johnson, 1989). It is a pity that catastrophic brown tides are needed to focus attention on an understudied group, and even if it is the right thing to do for the wrong reasons, at least things are in motion. It is also encouraging that Hargraves laboratory is learning to characterize the natural picoplankton with ultrastructural studies (Hargraves et al., 1989), the key to identifying the dominant component in the 1985 bloom year (Sieburth et al., 1988). The Sieburth lab must now get back to studying the microbiology and chemistry of stratified estuarine ecosystems (Sieburth, 1987) for which we are funded.

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Algal Bloom Phytoplankton Bloom Atmospheric Methane Brown Tide Estuarine Study 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • John McN. Sieburth
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  1. 1.Graduate School of OceanographyUniversity of Rhode IslandNarragansettUSA

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