Molly Bloom

Red Tide Along West Florida Shelf Introduction Red tide is the common name for a large concentration of certain species of dinoflagellates. This event accumulates harmful algal blooms quickly, resulting in discoloration near the surface water. Dense enough algal blooms cause harmful toxins strong enough to affect people and the oceans ecosystem as a whole. Karenia brevis is the most troublesome species of dinoflagellate in the Gulf of Mexico. This species reproduces by asexual cell division, therefore

In order to understand harmful algae blooms, it is necessary to understand the organisms responsible for them. In the United States, the most common place for them to occur is in the Gulf of Mexico, meaning that the situation there should be further examined. There, the organism responsible is known Karenia brevis, a type of floating algae, or dinoflagellate, found on the western coast of Florida and the eastern coast of Texas. Dinoflagellates are miniscule but can, at maximum have at least "60 million

Each spring, the Delaware Bay becomes the site of one of the most spectacular and ancient phenomena in the natural world: the spawning of horseshoe crabs and the flocking of ravenous shorebirds that depend on them. On moonlit nights in May and June, thousands of the crabs crawl ashore on Delaware Bay beaches at high tide to lay eggs, as they have for 450 million years. The crabs are sometimes so dense that the water’s edge looks like a road paved with brown shells. WHY COUNT THE CRABS? Knowing

All four tests involved eight clean test tubes (per test) filled with our water samples from Long Wharf, Rowes Wharf, Hewitt’s Cove, Short Beach, Doggy Beach, a fresh pond water reservoir and the Charles River by B.U. as well as M.I.T. All tests were taken using the LaMotte Urban Water Test Kit. For the nitrate test, all of the test tubes were filled to 5 mL with the water we collected, and one Nitrate WR TesTab was added into each tube. Immediately after adding the tablet, each tube was placed

swarms of jellyfish took over and now there is so much jellyfish there that jellyfish is the main fish caught there. The jellyfish also took over the space and environment of many other fish. But there have been many negative impacts too, with algae blooms dominating the oceans now fish and other edible marine life are dying off. Therefore fishermen have much more difficult time fishing. With difficult fishing much of these fishing economies will not do well. A “Primeval tide of toxins” not only affects

Addressing the people of the Lake Samish Association, As many people in the Bellingham community know, Lake Samish is a place used by various individuals, for innumerable activities. Placed just south of Western Washington University’s campus a few miles, it is a hasty commute for folks in Bellingham, as well as surrounding cities. Whether one simply wants to gaze at the beauty which ensconces the lake, or go out for a paddle in a kayak, Lake Samish serves as a phenomenal community, welcoming anyone

Introduction The purpose of this project was to measure the impact of training projects for professionals in Cambodia. The term professionals in this article includes administrators and staff employed by a non-governmental organization (“NGO”) who attended the training session. In past trips, training in-services for teachers were conducted by McMaster scholars in the cities of Phnom Penh, Battambang, Tekeo, and several rural school districts. The reason for conducting in-services for teachers was

Psychology of Men at War THESIS STATEMENT: The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane exhibits how the desensitizing, dehumanizing, and depressing experience of war is more so mentally harmful, than it is physically harmful. I. Introduction II. War is seen as the universal sign of manhood. A. War is seen as a rite of passage into manhood for boys. B. Henry went as far as pretending to be shot just to make the other soldiers think of him as brave. III. War will change a person's attitude

A Good Man is Hard to Find: Draft two “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” is a short story written by Flannary O’Connor talking about a family vacation that has gone wrong. Family is an interesting topic when reading this story. The children, John Wesley and June Star, are spoiled children who have no respect to anyone. The father has a temper. The grandmother is a very judgmental person. Each family member plays a role of the outcome of the family trip. The typical roles of children in stories about

Abstract The purpose of this experiment is to understand the effects of nutrient enrichment and eutrophication, using samples of water from Rio Salado and Encanto Park. The samples will contain different concentration levels of nitrogen, phosphorous and nitrogen and phosphorous combined and the impact it has on algae growth. The results recorded showed that the nitrogen concentration levels had a little change, phosphorous levels had a higher change and phosphorous and nitrogen combined had a