Ocean conditions contributed to unprecedented 2015 toxic algal bloom
Thursday, September 29, 2016 - 17:21
in Earth & Climate
A new study connects the unprecedented West Coast toxic algae bloom of 2015 that closed fisheries from southern California to northern British Columbia to the unusually warm ocean conditions — nicknamed “the blob” — in winter and spring of that year. UC Santa Cruz ocean scientist Raphael Kudela contributed to the study, which was accepted […]