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NCCOS’s Phytoplankton Monitoring Network trained over 30 environmental tribal personnel from Southeast Alaska and Kodiak Island in toxic phytoplankton sampling and identification. The training took part during the 8th Annual Southeast Alaska Tribal Ocean Research (SEATOR) partnership harmful algal bloom (HAB) workshop on June 23, 2920 which was conducted virtually this year due to virus pandemic travel restrictions.

Attendees of the 4th (2016) NCCOS SEATOR HAB training workshop in Sitka, AK. Credit NOAA NCCOS.

This year’s workshop included a session on methods (held June 30th) to sample and identify freshwater HABs which are becoming a new threat to drinking water sources in southeast Alaska. The tribal network was formed in 2013 to mitigate the threats of eating shellfish tainted with algal-based toxins during traditional subsistence shellfish harvest.

The NCCOS partnership with SEATOR is a multi-year project funded by the EPA Indian General Assistance Program and the Administration for Native Americans-Environmental Regulatory Enhancement Program.

Read more about earlier workshops held at the Sitka Tribe of Alaska Environmental Research Lab in Sitka, AK in 2018, and 2016.