HAB Tools
A number of tools to help HAB management programs are provided across these web pages. Here we provide some highlights to direct users to specific tools organized by program management themes.
Monitoring and Forecasting
The Trends, Monitoring Results and Forecasting pages of this website contain a variety of tools to help water quality managers with HAB monitoring and forecasting. These include a range of approaches from in situ to remotely sensed methods for all waterbody types.
Additional tools to help with monitoring and forecasting can be found across a range of EPA and other websites including:
- EPA Ambient Water Monitoring and Assessment: Resources and Tools
- ITRC HAB Monitoring Content: HCB-1 refer to Chapter 4 for Planktonic HABs and HCB-2 refer to Chapter 3 for Benthic HABs
- EPA Environmental Measurements and Modeling
- USGS NWQP Research on Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs)
- USGS Toxins and Harmful Algal Blooms Science Team
- NOAA HAB Forecasting - NCCOS Coastal Science
- HAB Toxin Detection Technologies
Prevention and Control
The Managing HABs pages for this website contain a variety of tools to help water quality managers with HAB prevention and control. These include both watershed and in-situ management tools.
Additional tools to help with preventing HABs through nutrient control can be found across a wide range of EPA and other websites including:
- Data and Tools to Assist States, Tribes, & Territories
- Numeric Nutrient Water Quality Criteria
- National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
- Permit Limits-Nutrient Permitting
- Polluted Runoff: Nonpoint Source (NPS) Pollution
- HAB Prevention - NCCOS Coastal Science website
- ITRC HAB Prevention and Control Content: HCB-1 - refer to Chapters 6 and 7
Response
The Managing HABs pages for this website contain a variety of tools to help water quality managers develop HAB response programs.
Additional tools to help with preventing HABs through nutrient control can be found across a wide range of other websites including:
NOAA has a substantial marine and Great Lakes HAB response program, including funding to help with response activities in these systems. NOAA marine and Great Lake HAB response information can be found at:
Funding
These links provide resources for funding HAB and HAB related activities by water quality agencies.
- CWA §319 Grants to Address Nonpoint Source (NPS) Pollution
- Drinking Water Grants and Other Financial Resources
- FITS: Funding Integration Tool for Source Water
- Prevention, Control, and Mitigation of HABs
- Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms
- Water Finance Clearinghouse
- Conservation Innovation Grants
- Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP)
- Great Lakes Funding
- USEPA 2023 Cyanosymposium Panel Discussion on Federal HAB Funding (refer to Day 4)
- Section 604(b) Water Quality Management Planning Grants
- Section 106 Water Pollution Control Program and Water Monitoring Initiative Grants
- Clean Water State Revolving Fund
- Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Program