NYSDEC Harmful Algae Blooms Information Page
The NYSDEC Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) website offers a variety of resources, including public health guidance, fact sheets, and FAQs about HABs and their risks. It provides access to the NYHABS reporting system for submitting bloom sightings, interactive maps of current bloom reports, and detailed HAB Action Plans for priority lakes. The site also includes links to educational materials, monitoring data, prevention strategies, and information about funding opportunities for water quality improvement projects.
NYSDEC's NYHABS Program
NYHABS is an NYSDEC public data collection, monitoring, and reporting initiative aimed at providing near real time tracking of HABS in sampled waterbodies.
NYSDEC Advanced Monitoring Pilot Project Summary
This website summarizes the multi-year experimental initiative by NYSDEC and USGS in the Finger Lakes (Owasco, Seneca, Canandaigua, and Skaneateles). The initiative is testigg advanced monitoring tools and gather detailed, real-time data on water quality, nutrients, algal concentrations, and toxin levels across different depths, locations, and tributaries. By integrating automated sensor platforms, intensive lake-wide sampling, nearshore mapping, and tributary monitoring, the project seeks to improve understanding of the physical, chemical, and biological factors driving harmful algal blooms in low- to moderate-nutrient lakes. Its ultimate goal is to refine early-warning indicators, inform monitoring strategies, guide mitigation efforts, and integrate findings into DEC’s broader HABs management programs.
