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Freshwater Science: Updating NOAA’s Lake Erie Cyanobacteria Satellite Remote Sensing Time Series

May 22, 2025 – New research from Ohio Sea Grant, Stone Lab and the Harmful Algal Bloom Research Initiative

Since 2009, NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) has been using satellite data to monitor the severity and impacts of annually occurring cyanobacteria Harmful Algal Blooms (cyanoHABs) in Lake Erie by leveraging satellite imagery across three different satellite missions. Following the 2024 bloom, NCCOS reprocessed the full time series with new satellite calibrations and improved algorithms. This reprocessing resulted in the most consistent and complete satellite imagery time series for Lake Erie across all three satellite missions from 2000 to present.

In this webinar Dr. Richard Stumpf from NCCOS will discuss the methods used, updated time series results, and the implications for the program’s understanding of overall Lake Erie cyanoHAB severity.


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About the Speaker

Richard Stumpf
Richard Stumpf HAB Forecasting Branch, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), NOAA

Dr. Richard Stumpf has decades of experience in coastal oceanography and harmful algal blooms. He has focused on the integration of satellite data, models, and field data to monitor and forecast algal blooms along our Great Lake and ocean coasts, with the goal of allowing people to use the water safely. He leads NOAA’s efforts to translate forecasts of harmful algal blooms from research to operations.

Freshwater Science webinar series, go.osu.edu/OSGWebinars

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