OHHI News

The Bay City Times features Juli Dyble and Kim Peters. (26 Jul 2008)
Research on Saginaw Bay delves deep to probe water quality and muck issues.
CEGLHH scientist David Schwab quoted by Muskegon Chronicle (25 Jul 2008)
Grand Haven gets deadly rip current sensor.
CEGLHH scientist, Juli Dyble, featured in Huron Daily Tribune.
Phosphorus and its impact on the Bay. (7 Apr 2008)
OHHI at the 2008 AAAS Meeting
'Marine life in peril' in The Charleston (SC) Post and Courier (28 Feb 2008)

'An Effluent Study: Questions for Steve Bay' in voiceofsandiego.org (23 Feb 2008)

'A Poison Pill' in The Economist (21 Feb 2008)

'Chemicals In Our Waters Are Affecting Humans And Aquatic Life In Unanticipated Ways' in Science Daily (21 Feb 2008)

'Researchers link car exhaust fumes to heart attacks' in The Guardian (UK) (19 Feb 2008)

'Health Highlights' in Forbes.com (18 Feb 2008)

Sustaining Human Health in a Changing Global Environment Juli Trtanj, NOAA National Ocean Service, Oceans and Human Health Initiative (18 Feb 2008)

'Chemical Threat to Planet Rising' in The Columbus (OH) Dispatch (17 Feb 2008)

'Study finds human medicines altering marine biology' in the Los Angeles Times (17 Feb 2008)

'Podcast on Emerging Chemical Contaminants and Human Health' in Science (16 Feb 2008)

'Mixtures of Pesticides May Increase Toxicity to Fish and Humans' Nat Scholz, NOAA's West Coast Center for Oceans and Human Health (16 Feb 2008)

'Study of Oil Spill's Effect on Fish Unlocks a Threat to Human Heart' John Incarona, NOAA's West Coast Center for Oceans and Human Health (16 Feb 2008)

Pesticide Brew Spells Trouble for Salmon in ScienceNOW (16 Feb 2008)

New Findings on Emerging Contaminants COMPASS Press Release (16 Feb 2008)

From Kitchen Sinks to Ocean Basins: Emerging Chemical Contaminants and Human Health (16 Feb 2008)

'Scientists Investigate Mysterious Duck Die-offs' in Oceanus (7 Feb 2008)
Full story here.
CEGLHH scientist George Leshkevich featured in the Columbus Dispatch (25 Sep 2007)
Discussing a new scanner that is used to track Harmful Algal Blooms in Lake Erie. Full story here
HML scientist Denise Sanger featured on Charleston ABC-TV (19 Nov 2007)
Discussing Tidal Creek work. Full story and video here
CEGLHH scientist George Leshkevich featured in the Columbus Dispatch (25 Sep 2007)
Discussing a new scanner that is used to track Harmful Algal Blooms in Lake Erie. Full story here
CEGLHH scientists Joan Rose and Juli Dyble featured in the Detroit News (22 Sep 2007)
Discussing the "muck" issue affecting Lake Huron beaches. Full story here
GLERL scientist George Leshkevich featured in the Ann Arbor News (03 Sep 2007)
Discussing cooperative research between NOAA/GLERL and NASA that relies on remote sensing imagery to track harmful algal booms in Lake Erie. Story here
Hollings Marine Laboratory featured in the Charleston Post and Courier (30 Aug 2007)
Discussing stormwater pollution impacts on the Charleston Harbor. Story here
Drs. Dave Schwab and Gary Fahnenstiel, of the NOAA Center of Excellence for Great Lakes and Human Health (CEGLHH) featured in the Muskegon Chronicle (30 July 2007)
Discussing current beach monitoring protocols. Story here
Dr. Gary Fahnenstiel (HAB researcher with the Center of Excellence for Great Lakes and Human Health) was quoted in the Muskegon Chronicle (18 July 2007)
Discussing the relationship between quagga mussels and algae. Story here
Grand River experiments in the Grand Haven Tribune (12 July 2007)
Sonia Joseph quoted discusing implications of the study. Story here
EGLHH scientist, Mike McCormick, featured in Grand Rapids Press (22 May 2007).
Dr. Mike McCormick, was featured in the Grand Rapids Press regarding the NOAA Center of Excellence for Great Lakes and Human Health (CEGLHH) upcoming summer field study on the Grand River, a major tributary of Lake Michigan. Story here.
Hollings Marine Laboratory researchers featured on WCSC TV (7 May 2007).
Lou Burnett and Lindy Thibodeaux from Hollings Marine Laboratory featured on WCSC-TV. Video available here.
Michigan Harmful Algal Bloom Stakeholder Workshop featured in the Bay City Times (12 April 2007).
Bay City Times Article
Further information on the Michigan Harmful Algal Bloom Stakeholder Workshop
Dr. Vera Trainer (West Coast Center for Oceans and Human Health) discusses a new rapid detection method for identification of toxic algae on the Earth & Sky Radio Series (25 March 2007)
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Dr. Nathaniel Scholz and colleagues (West Coast Center for Oceans and Human Health) discuss how copper from stormwater runoff affects salmon olfaction and behavior. (14 March 2007)
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NOAA Center of Excellence for Great Lakes and Human Health's Wisconsin Harmful Algal Bloom Stakeholder Workshop, which was held on March 22, was featured in the Green Bay Press Gazette
Pre-Meeting Article
Post-Meeting Article
NOAA Oceans and Human Health Initiative (OHHI) National Advisory Panel Meeting, March 8-9, 2007
NOAA's Oceans and Human Health Initiative (OHHI) Advisory Panel convened for its second meeting to advise the OHHI in its aim to improve understanding of the role of the oceans in human health. The 15-member Panel constitutes a balanced representation of individuals with multi-disciplinary expertise in the marine and biomedical sciences. The panel meets twice yearly. This meeting was held in Seattle, Washington and included a visit to the Northwest Fisheries Science Center which houses the Northwest Center for Oceans and Human Health, one of three NOAA Centers of Excellence for Oceans and Human Health. The meeting covered (1) approval of the Advisory Panel Charter; (2) review of OHHI vision, mission, goals and strategic objectives; (3) review of ongoing public information and outreach activities, products and services; and (4) update on Congressionally mandated interagency and agency OHH reports. For further information contact Juli Trtanj (juli.trtanj@noaa.gov).
NOAA OHHI Hosts AAAS symposium, February 16, 2007
NOAA's Oceans and Human Health Initiative (OHHI) hosted a symposium entitled .Wave of the Future: Predicting Human Health Threats in Our Oceans., at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in San Francisco, California on February 16, 2007. This session convened 8 representatives of OHHI.S Centers of Excellence for OHH, external grants and distinguished scholars programs to discuss remote sensing and genomic-based technologies, environmental and public health biosensors, zoonotic disease surveillance of marine mammals and seabirds, and oceanographic modeling tools that when linked to U.S. and global ocean observing systems can ultimately create a framework for early warning systems to detect, predict and prevent ocean-related health risks to humans. For more information contact Carolyn.Sotka@noaa.gov.
NOAA CEGLHH Addresses and Identifies Stakeholder Needs
The GLERL-based NOAA Center of Excellence for Great Lakes and Human Health (CEGLHH) hosted a Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) Stakeholder Needs Assessment Workshop on February 7, 2007 at the University of Toledo's Lake Erie Center. The purpose of this workshop was to bring together Ohio drinking water operators, public health officials, beach managers, wastewater operators, tribes, agriculturalists, and decision makers interested in harmful algal blooms in order to determine the extent of the harmful algal bloom issue in the Western Lake Erie, create a venue to understand and assess existing knowledge of HABs, and identify methods in which HABs are monitored for and reported to the public. Approximately 60 stakeholders from public health, drinking water, beach management, academia, U.S. and Canadian federal, state, county, and city governments, and community members participated in this workshop which consisted of presentations from nationally recognized HAB experts and Sea Grant facilitated focus group discussions to identify stakeholder needs. The information obtained from this workshop will assist CEGLHH in providing focused and valuable research, tools, and technology to predict and reduce HABs in the Great Lakes Basin and will be shared with the greater HAB research community. This workshop is the first of its kind in the Great Lakes Basin and is the first is a series of three workshops hosted by CEGLHH in specific states afflicted with HABs in the Great Lakes.