Routine monitoring of western Lake Erie to track water quality changes associated with cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms
Anna G. Boegehold,Ashley M. Burtner,Andrew C. Camilleri,Glenn Carter,Paul DenUyl,David Fanslow,Deanna Fyffe Semenyuk,Casey M. Godwin,Duane Gossiaux,Thomas H. Johengen,Holly Kelchner,Christine Kitchens,Lacey A. Mason,Kelly McCabe,Danna Palladino,Dack Stuart,Henry Vanderploeg,and Reagan Errera
Western Lake Erie suffers from cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (HABs) despite decades of international management efforts. In response, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) and the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) created an annual sampling program to detect, monitor, assess, and predict HABs. Here we describe the data collected from this monitoring program from 2012 to 2021.
Western Lake Erie suffers from cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (HABs) despite decades of...