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Innovations in HAB observing technologies. Left to right: Environmental Sample Processor (ESP), Imaging Flow Cytobot (IFCB), HABscope. Credit IOOS.
On September 1, 2021 NCCOS, the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System Office, and the IOOS Association organized the inaugural meeting of a newly formed Harmful Algal Bloom Observing Group. The HAB-OG is a next step in implementing and sustaining the National Harmful Algal Bloom Observing Network.
The HAB-OG is designed to be an informal community-based coalition aimed at bolstering scientific collaboration and information/resource sharing for HAB observing system operators, data users and stakeholders, technology manufacturers, academia, and government agencies.