A National Ocean Service/National Center for Coastal Ocean Science Program
Phytoplankton Monitoring Network
Promoting a better understanding of harmful algal blooms by way of volunteer monitoring
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Plankton News
The Plankton News is a newsletter produced by the Phytoplankton Monitoring Program (PMN). The newsletter focuses on highlighting different components of the monitoring program, volunteer/school groups, and current phytoplankton research. The Plankton News is mailed out three times a year and can also be downloaded as a PDF file from the website
If you would like to receive a free subscription to the newsletter, please email Allison Sill your name and address and you will be added to the mailing list.
2008
- Plankton News September 2008
: Cover Story - Domoic Acid Exposure in Strandings Along Atlantic Coast, Articles - From The Desk Of Dr. Morton, 2008 NMEA Conference, The Noctiluca Are Blooming!, 2008 Microscopy and Microanalysis Conference, Ask a Scientist, Biotoxins Scientist Q&A: Dr. Gregory Doucette, PMN Expansion Species Spotlight - Noctiluca scintillans, Volunteer Spotlight - Alabama - Plankton News May 2008 : Cover Story - Toxic Dinophysis acuminata Bloom in Texas, Articles - Update from Dr. Morton, News and Notes, Q & A With Aquatic Microbial Toxicologist, PMN Expansion, Alaska HAB Workshop, PMN Volunteer Snapshots, Species Spotlight - Dinophysis acuminata, Volunteer Spotlight - Bob Neville & Sunnie Jones, Folly River (SC)
- Plankton News February 2008 : Cover Story - Red Tide in the South Pacific Ocean, Articles - PMN Volunteer Snapshots, Update from Dr. Morton, HABIOS Workshop, News and Notes, Q & A With a Marine Biologist, PMN Bulletin Board, Species Spotlight - Ceratium furca
2007
- Plankton News September 2007 : Cover Story - Investigating a Link between Domoic Acid and Whale Mortality, Articles - Dr. Morton's research update, Welcome new PMN staff, PMN and Boy Scouts, PMN expansion to Texas and Alabama, Q & A With a Marine Biologist, Volunteers - Spotlight on Marcella Turonis, Species Spotlight - Prorocentrum minimum
- Plankton News February 2007 : Cover Story - Multispecies Pseudo-nitzschia bloom in North Carolina, Articles - Dr. Morton's research update, New website and Arc IMS/GIS database, PMN expansion to Virgin and Hawaiian Islands, Volunteers - Spotlight on Doris Cohrs from Friends of Sapelo Island, Tributes - Wendy Wicke
2006
- Plankton News June 2006 : Articles - Letter from Program Lead, Microscopy Workshop, Life Time Achievement Award, Update on Julie Cahill, Dr. Alexander Vershinin and Living Black Sea; Data - 2005 Summary; Species Spotlight - Skeletonema costatum; Volunteers - Report of SEERS meeting, Spotlight on Allene Barnes of Porter-Gaud School
2005
- Plankton News November 2005 : Articles - Phytoplankton and Hurricane Katrina, Letter from the Coordinator; Species Spotlight - Karenia brevis; Volunteers - Spotlight on Grand Strand Master Gardeners Association
- Plankton News June 2005 : Special Edition! Cover Story - First Flight High School Reports NC's First Algal Bloom; Fact Sheet - Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning and Domoic Acid; Articles - Identifying Pseudonitzchia spp., Domoic Acid ELISA, Domoic Acid Extractions, Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR); Ask the Scientists Section; Species Spotlight - Pseudo-nitzschia spp.; Volunteers - Spotlight on First Flight High School, Method to Report a Bloom, Preserve a Sample or Collect and Prepare a Live Sample
- Plankton News April 2005 : Articles - Welcome North Carolina, Plankton Researches at Porter-Gaud; Fact Sheet - The Carbon Cycle; Ask the Scientists Section; Contests - Recycled Phytoplankton, Art Contest Winners; Volunteers - Students Present Poster at SEERS; Student Activity Page
2004
- Plankton News November 2004 : Articles - Suspected Ciguatera Fish Poisoning, SE-PORT Workshop; Bloom Spotlight - Chaetocerous in Bass Pond, SC; Contests - Art; Species Spotlight - Protoperidinium spp.; Volunteers - MIC-D information, Web Site Additions
- Plankton News January 2004 : Articles - Introducing PMN, Georgia SE-PORT; Remote Sensing to Monitor and Identify HABs; Conference Summary - Second Symposium on Harmful Marine Algae in the U.S.; Bloom Spotlight - Rhizosolenia in Murrels Inlet, SC; Species Spotlight - Ceratium spp.; Volunteers - On-line Data Entry
2003
- Plankton News September 2003 : Articles - SC Algal Ecology Team; Algae in the News - Red Tides in Florida, Domoic Acid in Whale Deaths; Conference Summary - National Marine Educators Association; Tributes - Kate Schaefer; Species Spotlight - Dinophysis
- Plankton News May 2003 : Articles - Project Oceania: At SEA!, Phytoplankton and 1st Grade Teachers; Conference Summary - International Conference on Harmful Algae; Species Spotlight - Pseudo-nitzschia
2002
- Plankton News Spring 2002 : Articles - Creation and Design of SCPMN; Data - First Year Summary; Species Spotlight - Akashiwo sanguinea
