Harmful algal blooms on the North American West Coast
Subtitle: proceedings of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs), the Encroaching Menace, a conference to organize a West Coast effort for monitoring and research on harmful algal blooms, held January 1999, Anchorage, Alaska
By: edited by Raymond RaLonde.
Contributors: RaLonde, Raymond L.
Series: Report ;; no. AK-SG-01-05; Alaska Sea Grant College Program report ;; no. 01-05.
Publisher: University of Alaska Sea Grant College Program
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Fairbanks, Alaska
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Algal blooms -- Pacific Coast (North America) -- Congresses; Toxic marine algae -- Pacific Coast (North America) -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Proceedings of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs), the Encroaching Menace
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the Proceedings -- Raymond RaLonde; title: Alexandrium and Pseudo-nitzschia : two of the genera responsible for toxic algal blooms on the U.S. West Coast -- Rita A. Horner; title: FDA initiatives in HAB and marine biotoxins -- Sherwood Hall; title: The Alaska Science and Technology Foundation and HABs -- Robert E. Chaney; title: West Coast harmful algal blooms : the moving target -- John Wekell; title: Marine biotoxin monitoring in California, 1927-1999 -- Greg Langlois; title: The marine toxin problem in Washington State -- Frank Cox; title: Marine toxin monitoring program : British Columbia -- Klaus Schallié; title: Harmful algal blooms : the economic consequences for Alaska -- Raymond RaLonde; title: PSP toxin concentrations in Alaska -- Mike Ostasz; title: Alaska field trials for MIST diagnostic kits for detecting paralytic shellfish poisoning -- Joanne Jellett.