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.

New research from Africa's Lake Victoria has revealed critical clues about toxic algal blooms and their potential impact on Lake Erie and beyond.

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 ...

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, a section of Lake ...

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 ...

Students spent the past semester learning about phosphorus and nitrogen, nutrients found in soil that are spreading from farmland to the Lake Erie watershed and causing harmful algal blooms.

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 ...