Algal bloom

chemicals causing poisoning of wildlife are herbicides and pesticides from garden and park run off. Sewage out fall can cause excessively high nutrient levels and pathogens that can be harmful to all marine life. An excess of nutrients may cause, toxic algal blooms or extreme plant growth that will affect the amount of dissolved oxygen when they die. With the increase of the urban areas near the coast the more likely it is that rubbish will be dumped or blown into the estuaries which may cause…

single major event or spread over hundreds of thousands of years. The cause of all the animal extinction is thought to be from the huge land plant life. Giant land plants released nutrients into the oceans. The nutrients in the water lead to mass algal blooms which decreased the seas oxygen and animal life. The cold temperature, due to the volcanic as, killed off the spider and scorpion type animals. Elpistostegalians also died off, many sea animals went extinct during this time…

A hot, American topic these days is the steady rise of pollution in the world and the negative effects it is having on everything. Air pollution is the consistency of particle in the air that are harmful to humans, animals, and plants, and often times buildings (Rutledge, et al., 2011). With these pollutants in the air, they act as the beginning of a chain of effects that occur in our cycle of life. Air pollution in the 21st century is becoming greater each day as man-made technology…

al. (2016), it is imperative that more monitoring programs and funding for research is directed towards New Zealand’s fresh water resources. The negative impacts of microcystin producing Cyanobacterial blooms are not only constrained to the production of the microcystin toxin. Impacts of algal blooms also affect aquatic ecosystems and organisms, by means of deoxygenation of the benthic areas (Robarts, Waiser, Arts, & Evans, 2005), and composition changes for species diversity, both aquatic and…

water plants in the lake. Organic pollution at the water surface rose from 1% in 1987 to 29% in 1994. (Liang, G., 2012; He, H., 2012) In June 2007, Lake Taihu had an algae bloom that was dozens of centimetres thick, causing tap water to turn yellow and foul. The drinking water in Wuxi was also polluted. Since then, algal blooms have happened every year. Even though major government efforts had been put into cleaning up the lake and preventing water pollution from the agricultural activities, the…

Everglades have been around for thousands of years before any human settlement; “The Sea of Grass” has a delicate and critical ecosystem with influence on not just flora and fauna but also for humans residing there. Primarily a subtropical wetland, the everglades region is part of a lager watershed with its unique niche containing several plants and animals exclusive to it. With a total area of 4000 square miles prior to human squandering, it’s part of a larger water system consisting of…

that comes from factory farms overwhelmingly controls a large area of the planet. Moreover, the waste from these pastures absorbs into the ground, gets carried off by rivers and dumped into bays and gulfs. The nutrients present in the waste causes algal blooms that use up the oxygen within the water, creating “dead zones”. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, more than twenty seven thousand miles of river has been contaminated by livestock waste. But it’s not only the waterways…

The Great Barrier Reef is known as the world’s largest coral reef and is home to a large population of marine life. The reef consists of more than 3000 individual reef systems and coral cays, and contains an abundance of stunning tropical islands in Australia. This is why the Great Barrier Reef has become a well sought after tourist destination, tourists from around the world come every year to personally see the beauty of the reef for themselves. Tourists not only come here for the…

Sea level rise threatens to inundate many coastal wetlands, with little room to move inland because of coastal development. Warmer water from global warming will alter the species composition and contribute to worsening dead zones and harmful algal blooms, increased incidence of marine diseases, and expansion of harmful invasive species. Floods, droughts and other extreme weather events will alter water flows, leading to more polluted runoff and lower water quality. Drainage Drainage is carried…

General Proficiencies: March 2013 – July 2015 • Inspired, guided and encouraged team members to meet project goals by coordinated activities to accomplish research goals, and group presentations • Participated in a NSF-OCE study that led to the advisement of a new potential indicator for a hazard in the James River system. • Promoted peers adherence to specified project goals from administration, in addition to providing findings/adaptations to the supervisor for consideration. •…